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Xavier Ochsner med school set to open

Joint venture granted preliminary accreditation BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer

The Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, a joint venture between the state’s largest healthcare provider and New Orleans’ historically Black Catholic university, has the green light to begin recruiting its ﬁrst class of future doctors as the medical school prepares to open next year.

On Wednesday, the fledgling school was granted preliminary accreditation, a key milestone in the yearslong effort to establish a New Orleans institution to tackle the physician shortage and diversify the medical ﬁeld. The sign off from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, an accrediting body for medical schools, will allow it to begin recruiting an inaugural class of about 50 students

opportunity and service can transform lives and provide our communities stellar for the college’s planned launch in healthcare for generations to come,” August 2027. The school will be eligible to added Pete Novemearn full accreditation once it has ber, president and graduated students. CEO of Ochsner “This is a historic moment for Health. Xavier University of Louisiana, The planned for New Orleans and for the future medical school, Seoane of medicine in this nation,” said which was ﬁrst anXavier President Reynold Verret. nounced four years ago, will be The partnership “is grounded based in a renovated section of in a shared belief that education, Benson Towers in the burgeon-

City Council’s dilemma: Raise taxes or cut services

Size of N.O. deficit depends on millage roll forward

ing downtown Bio District, said Dr. Leonardo Seoane, XOCOM’s founding dean. Seoane, who completed part of his medical training at Charity Hospital, said the location is symbolic. After Hurricane Katrina, when Benson Towers partially ﬂooded, a portion of the building was transformed into a makeshift medical clinic. Now, those ﬂoors will house the new medical school’s auditorium, anatomy

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Lower 9th Ward school could face closure

King elementary has received warning over low scores BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer

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A school bus passes the overgrown neutral ground along Broadway Street in New Orleans on Wednesday. Possible city budget cuts may mean reduced grass-cutting services, leaving some public spaces with longer stretches between mowings. BY JONI HESS and SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writers

This fall, the New Orleans City Council faces a dilemma: They can either raise property taxes, and weather public blowback. Or, they can keep the status quo and lose $77 million in vital city programs and services — a move that will also likely cause public pain. Three weeks into the city’s annual budget process, council members are largely keeping mum about which choice they’ll make, even as they vow to preserve funding for several priorities. But it’s increasingly obvious that they’ll need new

cash if they hope to keep those services alive. Council members said this week that they want to preserve funding for public safety, post-Carnival parade cleanups, the city’s low-barrier shelter, an eviction prevention program and a violence prevention program. If there is no millage roll forward, council member Aimee McCarron said citywide grass or tree cutting services could be among dozens of services to go — a service residents have been clamoring the city to provide more of, not less. “I want to be able to tell residents: ‘Look, if we don’t, here’s what we’re

missing out on.’ If we don’t have this recurring revenue that we’re trying to do with the roll forward, we’re not going to be able to fund grass cutting,” McCarron said, adding that she plans to hold town halls about the millage. Though the council’s approval has always been needed to raise city taxes, the council owes its current position to a mayor who has taken what she said is a more collaborative approach to budget decision-making. While Moreno’s top staffers ﬂoated a roll forward proposal publicly, the draft budget she presented them

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Leaders of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School, the last remaining public school in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, are vowing to fight to keep the school open after district ofﬁcials warned that it could be shut down for poor academic performance. Members of King’s nonproﬁt board said they believe the school, which earned an F rating last year, deserves more time to turn things around. At a meeting this week of the school’s board, called Friends of King, board President Eartha Johnson said the school will comply with the district’s order to submit an improvement plan and other performance data. She added that the school is ready to make a case for why it should remain open. The school’s staff has “been working beyond the call of duty,” she said, “to be able to bring forth a reckoning, so to speak.” NOLA Public Schools sent warning letters this month to two low-performing schools: King, which serves pre-K to eighth grade, and Fannie C. Williams Charter School, which enrolls grades K-8 in New Orleans East. The schools could potentially be closed at the end of this school year

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School on Claiborne Avenue is the last remaining public school in the Lower 9th Ward.

Texts show Orleans officials’ conversations before AG indictment BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

When Judge Leon Roche plucked former criminal judge Laurie White from a retiree’s life to oversee the grand jury that went on to indict Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill in July, it came with some issues. For one, White, who left ofﬁce early in 2023, had no staff. And with District Attorney Jason Wil-

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liams and his office recused from the matter — the reason for her appointment as a special prosecutor — it wasn’t even clear where the grand jury would gather as they discussed charging Murrill. In a series of text messages that Murrill’s attorneys submitted this week to the Louisiana Supreme Court, White sought and received guidance from two officials in Williams’ office, including First Assistant District Attorney Ned Mc-

Gowan. Murrill’s lawyers received the cache of texts from the District Attorney’s Office in response to a public records request. They portrayed the texts as further evidence of records the District Attorney’s Office, White or other officials have withheld. An attorney for Williams’ office disputed that characterization in a letter Tuesday to Murrill attorney Laura Cannizzaro Rodrigue. Far from suspicious, he wrote that the

texts “reﬂect the professionalism that is expected of ofﬁcers of the court.” The messages revealed this week show that McGowan provided White charging papers from an unrelated criminal case in response to her request for a sample bill of indictment. White also asked McGowan if she could use the grand jury’s usual court reporter. She also informed him of a subpoena for Wil-

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liams and arranged the district attorney’s appearance on June 25 before the grand jury. White also coordinated with McGowan and Abigail Macdonald, one of the district attorney’s screening prosecutors, for the handoff of the grand jury from Williams’ ofﬁce, which needed it for ordinary indictments. The same criminal grand jury

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N.Y. to ban Central Park’s horse-drawn carriages NEW YORK — New York City lawmakers plan to ban horse-drawn carriages from Central Park, ending their more than 150-year run as an iconic, old-timey tourist attraction, following decades of opposition from animal welfare activists and the death of a teenage tourist last spring. The City Council is expected to approve a bill next week that would end the rides by 2028. Three consecutive mayors had called for an end to the carriage rides because of safety concerns, only to have lawmakers yank back the reins. A spokesperson for Julie Menin, the council speaker, confirmed the incoming vote and said the proposal had enough support to pass. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s office said he had reached a deal with the speaker on the legislation. “The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City,” Mamdani said. The latest push for a ban started in June, when 18-yearold Romanch Mahajan, visiting the city from India, died after jumping from a runaway horse carriage.

Caine Prize winner rejects claim he used AI HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza, whose prize for a short story is under review over allegations of AI use, denied using artificial intelligence to write what he said was a story inspired by his family’s experiences, and he suggested that AI-detection technology is biased. Kundizeza’s “The Blue Fighter” won this year’s $10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing last week, but a report in The Atlantic magazine said the AI detection tool Pangram had indicated the entire story was AIgenerated with the exception of an excerpt from a poem by another author. Kundizeza posted a denial on X late Tuesday, and in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press said that African writers and readers should challenge such accusations. “There is need to use technology responsibly so that it is not deployed to create a bias against natives who seek to write about their own experiences and cultures,” he said.

French prosecutors investigate 14-year-old PARIS — French anti-terror prosecutors opened a judicial investigation on Wednesday into a school shooting that wounded a principal and a teacher, and requested pretrial detention for the 14-year-old suspect. The investigation covers attempted premeditated murder linked to terrorism, terrorist conspiracy and weapons offenses, the national counterterrorism prosecutor’s ofﬁce said in a statement. Three investigating judges in Paris will oversee the case. The teenage suspect acknowledged carrying out Monday’s attack at Lakanal middle school in Aubagne, near Marseille, and told investigators he had been planning it for several months, the prosecutor’s ofﬁce said. He denied intending to kill. The boy told investigators he wanted revenge for bullying by teachers and classmates, an allegation prosecutors said had not been corroborated.

Dog missing in Yellowstone captured Luna, a Jack Russell terrier who eluded capture for over a month as concern for the dog’s survival mounted ahead of winter in Yellowstone National Park, was caught in a live trap Wednesday and reunited with her owners. The 10-year-old dog had been spotted crossing intersections, strolling through employee housing and entering lodges through automatic doors at the sprawling national park that’s home to grizzly bears, wolves and other predators. Katie Boucher, the volunteer leading the rescue effort and a spokesperson for the dog’s California owners, said she found Luna in the trap baited with scraps from a T-shirt and pillowcase belonging to the family.

Debate before no-confidence vote turns contentious BY LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press

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Pope Leo XIV leaves the Vatican on Tuesday for the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, where he had part of a lung removed.

Pope recovering well after cancer surgery

Tuesday’s surgery confirmed with speciﬁc characteristics. Leo eating, that Leo has lung adenocarcinoma, Liu, who is not involved in the the most common type of lung can- pope’s care, said that, of the differcelebrating Mass cer. Surgeons removed the lower ent types of lung cancers, adenocarcinoma has the most favorable but trip is in question lobe of his right lung.

BY NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press

ROME — Pope Leo XIV resumed his regular diet, began walking and celebrated Mass in the hospital Wednesday as he recovered from surgery to remove a cancerous mass from his lung, the Vatican said. Questions remained about whether the cancer had spread, while Peru’s president suggested Leo might have to alter his planned visit to Latin America next month. Blood tests and a chest X-ray showed the 71-year-old pope was recovering normally, his two doctors said. “The Holy Father underwent respiratory physiotherapy and has begun walking in his room. He resumed his regular diet and had breakfast and lunch,” said Dr. Luigi Carbone, the pope’s personal doctor, and Dr. Stefano Margaritora, the head thoracic surgeon at Gemelli hospital. “Recovery is proceeding as planned.”

The right lung has three lobes and the left has two. After one lobe is removed, the remaining lung tissue can gradually compensate, especially in otherwise healthy, physically active people. Leo is known for his interest in sports, including weekly tennis games and swimming. The Vatican said late Wednesday that the pope had celebrated Mass with his secretaries in the afternoon in a special chapel set up for him on the 10th ﬂoor of the hospital. Experts said some of Leo’s lymph nodes would also have been removed and tested to determine whether the cancer had spread. Those results have not so far been made public. If the cancer has spread, test results will guide treatment, said Dr. Stephen Liu, a lung cancer expert at Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Options include chemotherapy, a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy, or targeted therapy, which uses pills to treat cancers

prognosis. “While we know the diagnosis, we now need to know the stage,” Liu said. “We now need to know how big it is, how many spots in the lung are involved. Is it just one nodule, or more than one, and the lymph nodes, are they cancerous?” Dr. PierCarlo Gentile, head of radiation oncology at Rome’s San Pietro Fatebenefratelli Hospital, said the minimally invasive, video-assisted chest surgery the pope underwent typically requires 15 to 20 days of recovery. Postoperative complications, including infections, are rare, he said. The Vatican hasn’t announced any changes to Leo’s planned trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru on Nov. 6-17. But Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori said Wednesday that the pope’s diagnosis and recovery could affect the visit, even as she expressed hope it would go ahead. Leo spent two decades as a missionary in Peru, holds Peruvian citizenship and is beloved by his ﬂock there.

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WASHINGTON — Federal authorities investigating Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar seized the Democratic lawmaker’s phone and have issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to some of her relatives, according to a person briefed on the probe. The subpoenas were issued for a grand jury collecting evidence in Minnesota as federal authorities probe potential fraud in Omar’s immigration paperwork, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation. The investigation led to federal agents searching Omar’s Washington, D.C. home on Monday just weeks before the November midterms, in which Omar is seeking reelection. The scope of the investigation into Omar is unclear, though Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has suggested that authorities were examining potential crimes related to her family’s immigration paperwork. On Tuesday, Washington D.C. U.S Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a Fox News interview that “there are several investigations going on” related to Omar and that her office is also probing issues concerning the lawmaker’s financial disclosures. “If there was a crime that was committed, it will be prosecuted,” Pirro said. The search of Omar’s home so close to next month’s midterm contests that

ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff faced off with angry members of the school’s faculty Wednesday at a meeting that underscored deep frustration on campus over his administration’s handling of a woman’s report that she was gang raped at a fraternity house in 2024. Kotlikoff addressed members of the university’s Faculty Senate, and took their questions, as it began considering a no-conﬁdence resolution in his administration. The meeting was closed to the media, but some faculty members leaving the session described the mood as leaning heavily against Kotlikoff, who has publicly acknowledged errors in the school’s handling of the rape allegation. Richard Bensel, a professor of government, said Kotlikoff was poised, and the debate was civil, but he estimated 80% of the faculty members who spoke at the meeting were in favor of a noconﬁdence vote. “The faculty were extremely angry. They gave him a hard time, I think appropriately so,” Bensel said. He said the Faculty Senate had spent years passing resolutions calling for reforms to university disciplinary procedures, only to have its recommendations ignored by administrators. “I don’t think there’s any way that we can open up the process for democratic reform except by passing this resolution,” he said. Debate was expected to continue Oct. 28, followed by electronic voting by the Faculty Senate, which has approximately 130 voting members. A simple majority is required for passage. A no-confidence vote by the faculty would be largely symbolic, but can send a powerful message to the university’s trustees, who ultimately will decide how the university is run and who leads it.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens during a congressional spotlight hearing on Capitol Hill in September.

will determine control of the House and the Senate was swiftly condemned by Democrats, who accused the administration of targeting the Democrat for political purposes. Omar, in a statement on X, called the search an “attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.” “For 10 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.” A phone message seeking comment was left Wednesday with a representative for Omar. 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 seeking reelection. The Justice Department has historically sought to avoid public investigative actions involving a candidate within 60 days of a primary or general election. Omar, who was first elected to the House in 2018, represents Minnesota’s 5th District, including Minneapolis.

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BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. — President Donald Trump showed off the new Air Force One and defended accepting the luxury jet from the Qatari royal family as he campaigned for Republicans Wednesday in an economically struggling corner of rural Arizona. His ﬁrst substantive comments after he got off the plane to address the airport rally described learning that the Qataris had “the best of all the 747s.” He said he called to ask the country’s leader to borrow the aircraft before the emir offered it instead as a gift. Trump accepted the airplane last year despite strong bipartisan criticism, including from some of his staunchest Republican supporters. “When you’re given gifts, you take ’em, right?” Trump told the crowd in Bullhead City. “When they give you a 747 you say two words: ‘thank you.’”

Trump was on his second day of a Western campaign swing and was headed to a Republican-leaning U.S. House district in Montana after Arizona, continuing a midterm roadshow designed to rally the GOP. He campaigned in Alaska on Tuesday and in Ohio on Monday. The visits come as the Republican president works to bolster his party in Nov. 3 elections that will determine control of Congress. In Arizona, soaring music played as the former Qatari jet flew low over the local airport where supporters awaited Trump in the heat. The president, wearing his signature red baseball cap, emerged with a wave and a fist bump and slowly descended the stairs as speakers blasted Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” the song that marks Trump’s entrance at campaign events. Air Force One, now wearing Trump’s new red, white, blue and gold paint scheme, and the Black Mountains filled the background as he started speaking.

Mohave County, where Bullhead City is located, has higher poverty and unemployment rates than the state and nation, with a lower percapita income, according to Census and state unemployment data. Trump also spoke extensively about his aesthetic flourishes around Washington: the White House ballroom that is under construction and a just-completed helipad on the South Lawn, along with a triumphal arch he has planned for the capital city. “The fake news media doesn’t talk about how well we’re doing” as a country, Trump said. Journalists ask him instead about “affordability,” he said, pronouncing the word in a dismissive tone. Trump traveled to Arizona to rally support for Rep. Andy Biggs, who is seeking to defeat Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. Republicans running in the state’s two competitive U.S. House districts, Jay Feely and Rep. Juan Ciscomani, did not attend the event. Afterward, Trump was heading to

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President Donald Trump arrives Wednesday on Air Force One at Laughlin Bullhead International Airport for a campaign rally in Bullhead, Ariz. Western Montana’s 1st District to try to boost Aaron Flint, a former aide to retiring Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke, who was interior secretary in Trump’s ﬁrst-term Cabinet. Trump has kept up a brisk pace of hour-plus-long rallies — new

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia called it a “midterm blitz” — in his effort to stem expected Republican losses and ﬁght a historical trend in which the president’s party typically loses seats in elections halfway through their term in the White House.

Justice Department threatens California over voter rolls BY SAFIYAH RIDDLE and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia speaks with reporters Tuesday in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House.

Trump press secretary faces scrutiny over background Claims that she’s a lawyer questioned BY JILL COLVIN Associated Press

NEW YORK — The new White House press secretary is facing mounting questions about her background and resume as she transitions into her role as the public face of the Trump administration. Katie Zacharia has long described herself as a lawyer as she has worked to establish herself as a commentator for conservative outlets like Fox News and Newsmax. But so far, she and the White House have offered no evidence that she passed the bar exam in any state or in China, where she worked for a large law ﬁrm years ago.

The questions add to the confusion surrounding President Donald Trump’s decision to hire Zacharia, who had worked for his social media company for only a few months when he announced her appointment and whose debut at the podium on Tuesday has been widely panned. Afterward, the president was asked by reporters where Zacharia had passed the bar exam, following a report by the independent outlet Popular Information that she did not appear to be licensed in any state. Trump stepped aside to allow Zacharia to answer. “When I moved to China,” she responded over the sound of Marine One whirring in the background. It is not clear what she had intended to say or whether she had finished the sentence. China’s notoriously difﬁ-

cult National Uniﬁed Legal Professional Qualification Examination can only be taken by Chinese citizens. Asked what credentials she held, the White House passed along a statement from Zacharia, who received a bachelor of arts degree from Pepperdine University in 2007 and received her law degree from Pepperdine Caruso School of Law in 2011, according to the school and her LinkedIn bio. “I practiced international transaction law, with all the appropriate credentials,” it read. Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, added that Zacharia was “uniquely qualiﬁed and whip smart to help inform the American people about all the great things President Trump and his Administration have been doing, and she will do an incredible job as press secretary.”

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Department of Justice has threatened California with possible legal action over what it says are noncitizens believed to have received mail ballots for next month’s midterm elections. A letter sent Tuesday to Secretary of State Shirley Weber from Trent McCotter, the acting deputy U.S. attorney general, says the department has provided ofﬁcials in Los Angeles County with a password-protected thumb drive that contains a list of names the federal government believes are likely noncitizens who were sent ballots to participate in the Nov. 3 election. California mails ballots to all registered voters. The letter obtained by The Associated Press gives the state 48 hours to determine whether any citizens are included on the list. For individuals whose citizenship cannot be independently verified, the state is to instruct local election ofﬁcials to segregate their mail-in ballots until their status can be determined, and to not provide a ballot to anyone who has not yet received it. The letters warns that legal

action may follow if the state does not meet the 48-hour deadline to review the list. “If you cannot implement this process by then, given the ongoing federal election, the United States will have no choice but to seek emergency relief,” the letter states. A separate, similar letter was sent to the registrar’s office in Los Angeles County, which the U.S. attorney’s office had investigated during the state’s June primary. Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan confirmed in a statement that his office received the letter and a thumb drive, along with a “hand written note providing a password” to access the list of alleged noncitizens on the voter rolls. He said he did not consider the thumb drive a secure device and hasn’t yet accessed any files. The letter, which Logan made public, does not specify the number of individuals flagged by the federal government. Logan said his office is working with the secretary of state and attorney general’s offices to decide how to proceed. The California secretary of state’s office did not respond to requests for comment. “Federal and state laws

are clear on how voter eligibility is established,” Logan wrote. “And any action to remove a voter from eligibility must be based on veriﬁable information, not assertions of unconﬁrmed data matching.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta slammed the letter in an unrelated press conference on Wednesday, calling it another example of President Donald Trump spreading “absolutely false conspiracy theories that there is widespread voter fraud when there is not.” Bonta did not say how the secretary of state’s office would respond to the Justice Department, but said: “Will we be engaging in conspiracy theories? We will not.” The Trump administration has made the hunt for noncitizen voters a priority this year, even though the problem is exceptionally rare. The Justice Department has charged about 90 people for various types of election misconduct so far this year, including 50 who are alleged to have voted as noncitizens.

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Continued from page 1A labs and faculty ofﬁces. “We’re taking space that once cared for the community post-Katrina 20 years ago,” Seoane said, “and now turning it into a space that’s going to train the next generation of doctors.”

Long time coming To Xavier officials, a medical school is the logical next step for a university with a long track record of preparing Black students for careers in medicine. Xavier consistently sends more Black students to medical school than nearly any other institution, outpacing Ivy League campuses and large state universities. It also has the state’s oldest pharmacy program and more recently started a genetic counseling and Phy-

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Continued from page 1A with did not make recommendations about which programs should be axed and which should be saved. Some council members have called for that level of guidance. “The mayor’s team, including the CAO (chief administrative ofﬁcer), is currently meeting with all council members to gather their priorities regarding the proposed cuts and the menu of revenue options,” said Andrew Tuozzolo, special counsel to the mayor. “We plan to continue to work with the council on a package that delivers a balanced budget for 2027 and the high-quality city services residents deserve.” Ed Chervenak, an LSU New Orleans political analyst, said that ultimately, the buck stops with the City Council when it comes to budget decisions. “They control the power of the purse,” said Chervenak. “The mayor can set the broad strokes, but it’s the City Council that has to sit down and go through the budget line by line.”

A tough choice Council members have heard warnings from department leaders in recent weeks about the potential impact of the more than 75 proposed cuts to their programs and services. The council will hear from additional department heads in the coming weeks before approving the city’s 2027 budget by Dec. 1. A full “millage roll forward,” which occurs when property taxes are raised to the highest amount allowed by voters, could inject about $42 million more into the city’s coffers. But without that increase, the mayor and council will have to close a roughly $100 million deﬁcit by cutting $77 million in city programs and services as proposed by Moreno’s administration. Also helping to bridge that gap are $22 million in one-time funds, plus another $3 million the city will receive from a trust that governs revenue from donated oilﬁeld land. Even if the millage is

sician Assistant program, also in partnership with Ochsner. XOCOM is set to become one of the nation’s few historically Black medical schools. There are only four others in operation today: the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles; Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.; Meharry Medical College in Nashville; and Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Morgan State, in Baltimore, opened a college of osteopathic medicine in 2023. (New Orleans previously had the John D. Flint Medical College, but it closed in 1911.) Ochsner and Xavier officials hope the medical school will help address the worsening physician shortage. The National Health Resources and Services Administration has predicted a nationwide shortage of up to 141,000 physicians by 2038. In Louisiana, 60 of 64 parishes are designated

as Health Professional Shortage Areas. XOCOM also aims to bolster the ranks of doctors of color. Only about 5% of the country’s doctors are Black, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, despite Black people making up about 14% of the population. Verret has long envisioned starting a medical school at Xavier, which is the country’s only Catholic historically Black college or university. He said the school will teach aspiring doctors to treat the whole person. Its graduates should be technically proﬁcient in medicine, but also “proﬁcient in the humanity of being a physician,” Verret said. Medicine is “a human profession,” he said, “of human beings healing human beings.”

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of behind-the-scenes work has been underway to ready the medical school for accreditation. The work has involved designing the curriculum, hiring faculty and outﬁtting the classroom space. “The beauty of beginning a med school from scratch,” said Seoane, “is we got to plan it based on how medical students learn today, and how we train doctors today.” The medical school will favor case studies and hands-on learning, Seoane said, rather than lectures in large auditoriums, which Seoane said dominated his training. Students will collaborate on hypothetical clinical cases in small groups, examining X-rays and poring over patient details. “They’ll basically be teaching themselves,” he said. Students will practice setting up an IV and other clinical skills in a Med school ’from scratch’ training room with lifelike patient Over the past few years, a ﬂurry simulators. Another classroom

will offer augmented virtual reality where students can “open up the heart, step into the left ventricle, look at the tricuspid valve,” Seoane said. “It’s really cool.” The school will also feature small rooms with tables and a handful of chairs to encourage small group learning, which Seoane said is pivotal to the medical school experience. There also will be a chapel, student lounges and vending machines stocked with healthy snacks. Another section of the school will offer wraparound support for students, from ﬁnancial aid to counseling services from a licensed social worker. Students will be split into four academic societies, which will get guidance from a faculty adviser and peer mentoring. “If we accept you into our medical school, we know you can do the work,” Seoane said. “And if you don’t become a doctor, then we have both failed.”

ing the last legislative cycle. scenario. “It’s important that they “The City Council sets the have as many resources and budget, but we’re not the as many people to help with people who run the agencies that extra workload because … and manage those budif you just pile the workload gets,” Harris said. from one judge onto the othMoreno has said she will er judges, you have kids sit- weigh in if the council apting in jail longer,” he said. proves new revenue and Council President JP Mor- that the final budget will be rell said that council mem- a collaboration between both bers agree that maintaining parties. Morrell said he disagreed funding for community violence intervention programs with Harris. “It’s not a great idea to is essential “because they’re all pieces of how we’ve got- have the mayor dictate to us what projects will be saved ten crime to this low rate.” Nellie Catzen, executive and which ones have to go, if director for Committee for we have to do the heavy lift a Better New Orleans, said of the millage roll forward,” that the cost of Moreno’s said Morrell. Morrell said that both the proposed cuts “is too great STAFF FILE PHOTO BY SOPHIA GERMER for the people that are council and mayor would New Orleans City Council member Aimee McCarron said If there is no millage roll forward, most impacted by vulner- need to own the roll forward abilities,” said Catzen. “I proposal rather than “pass citywide grass or tree cutting services could be among dozens of services to go. encourage the city to find the potato back and forth.” “We’re both stuck with elsewhere to cut.” the same magma-hot giant rolled forward, the city and legislative auditor, Mike es is another item on which ‘Hot potato’ Idaho potato that’s going to council would still have to Waguespack, who said that council members agree. cut services to the tune of it would make balancing the Moreno’s budget proposes Meanwhile, a divide has burn all of us at the same about $32 million, assum- budget “less painful.” over $1 million in reductions emerged between council time anyway, no matter to the Juvenile Justice Cen- members in recent weeks what we do,” said Morrell. ing no new other funds are Council priorities found. ter that would impact the over the relative authorHarris identified treeCouncil members have court system, the number of ity of the council versus the cutting and city facilities been quicker to say what public defenders and youth mayor to dictate what promaintenance as areas ripe they plan to maintain fund- programs. grams would be restored in for “strategic cuts.” McCar- ing for. King said that funding is the budget if the council apThe council has already crucial in light of the state proves a tax increase. ron said nonofficer police department staff could be pledged to find $5 million, shaving the number of OrHarris has called on reduced, burdening officers potentially from private leans Parish juvenile court Moreno to identify a budget partners like the Downtown judges from four to two dur- proposal for a roll-forward with a bigger workload. Others members said they Development District and want to hear more about the Convention Center, to their constituents’ priorities fund the city’s low barrier and the operational needs of shelter, which temporarily City Hall departments be- houses homeless residents. They have also said that they fore making a decision. “I can’t speculate because are committed to funding it’s possible that there’ll be the “Right to Counsel” evicno millage increase. It’s tion prevention program, possible that there’ll be re- which they are obligated to quests for millage increases protect because of an ordiat different levels,” council nance in the city charter. member Eugene Green said But Harris said that the when asked if he supports council could consider deOrleans Parish Registrar of Voters any type of increase. creasing the program budWILL CONDUCT McCarron and Harris said get from its current $2.5 they plan to hold a series of million. Early Voting for the November 3, 2026, U.S. Senate General/ town halls to educate the Harris also said that fundpublic on what a potential ing sanitation services after Open U.S. Representative Primary/Open Primary Elections increase looks like on their Mardi Gras parades is “nontax bills. Moreno’s adminis- negotiable.” “I can’t see having Mardi tration also put out an online 8:30 am to 6:00 pm, Tuesday, October 20th tool that allows residents Gras and not cleaning up afto estimate their average ter each parade,” said Harthrough Tuesday, October 27th monthly and annual costs us- ris. Council member Freddie ing a mix of millages under Except Sunday, October 25, 2026 consideration by the council. King III would like to see at the following locations: McCarron said most resi- the city’s code enforcement, dents won’t be excited about sanitation and public works raising property taxes, but departments fully funded, City Hall she wants to present the im- because those offices propact of an increase in a way vide basic services for ev1300 Perdido St., Room 1W24 that’s easy to understand. eryone, he said. 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Forecast lowered for world oil demand

BY MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP business writer

The International Energy Agency is lowering its world oil demand forecast for the year, noting that the war in Iran is leading to escalating fuel prices, limited oil supplies and a deteriorating economic outlook. The agency’s report on Wednesday said that global oil demand is predicted to drop 2.5 million barrels a day year-over-year in the fourth quarter and fall 2.6 million barrels a day on average this year. Diesel is expected to account for 25% of the drop. The IEA foresees a partial recovery of 2 million barrels a day next

year, but that still puts global oil use 0.6% below 2025 levels. Global production climbed 2.5 million barrels a day month-overmonth to 102.3 million barrels a day in September, driven by Gulf producers. OPEC+ gains of 2.1 million barrels a day were led by Saudi Arabia, while the United Arab Emirates drove non-OPEC+ increases. Oil supply is expected to drop by 5.8 million barrels a day to 100.7 million barrels a day this year before climbing by 7.7 million barrels a day next year. The agency said that renewed Gulf attacks “leave the recovery fragile.” While gas prices in the U.S. have moved lower in recent weeks, they

remain higher than a month ago. Gas prices averaged $4.33 per gallon on Wednesday, according to AAA, up slightly from a month ago. Brent crude, the international standard, gained 0.6% to $106.37 a barrel Wednesday morning. Benchmark U.S. crude rose 1.2% to $95.30 a barrel. Brent has been pinballing between $96 and nearly $110 over the last month on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow the global energy industry to return to normal. On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he had struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to immedi-

ately supply the U.S. more than 300,000 tons of diesel. That would be followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November, then 4 million more tons at some point after that. But energy policy experts say that the new pact is unlikely to make a dent in painfully high prices at the pump or elsewhere. The price of diesel has shattered records in recent weeks, ratcheting up inﬂation for a broad swath of consumer goods. Trump’s announcement came a week after the Group of Seven wealthy democracies said that they plan to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming weeks, starting with “substantial” amounts of diesel.

GlobalFoundries to open 2 new chip plants MALTA, N.Y. — Computer chip company GlobalFoundries Inc. said Wednesday it plans to open two factories in Malta, New York, ﬁnanced by an investment of up to $21 billion from Japan. The company said the deal was made possible by the Trump administration’s trade and investment agreement with the Japanese government. It said the initiative will accelerate semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. and strengthen critical supply chains. The company previously received some federal funding to expand as part of a Biden administration program to expand chip production. As a result of the investment from Japan, that federal funding will now go to investments in other areas to advance semiconductor manufacturing, GlobalFoundries spokesperson Kenneth Craig said in an email. President Donald Trump posted on social media that the U.S. government will receive shares in GlobalFoundries, just as it did for Intel Corp., in an expansion of the administration’s policy of taking ownership stakes in private companies.

Stores scramble to restock after attack PARIS — France’s cybersecurity authority has warned that a cyberattack targeting supermarkets may still be ongoing as stores restocked Wednesday after the attack sent refrigerator temperatures soaring, raising concerns about the security of vital food supply chains. The agency said Tuesday night that the attacks were “likely still underway.” It urged stores to reconnect refrigerators to the internet only through a secure VPN connection or protected network, install firmware updates and change passwords. Attackers remotely took control of refrigeration systems in hundreds of supermarkets and independent stores across France in the early hours of Monday. Temperatures reached 122 degrees Fahrenheit for about six hours, forcing stores to discard fresh and frozen goods. The Intermarché supermarket chain reported losses of “tens of millions of euros” in a single day. In the Netherlands, a major supermarket chain was restarting systems it had shut down as a precaution amid what parent company Ahold Delhaize called a “cybersecurity incident.” The incident halted home deliveries and disrupted some supplies to its extensive network of stores across the country.

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Inflation worsened in September to 3.7%

a year ago, up from 2.4% the previous a highly visible sign of inﬂation and often It’s a sign that prices remain from month and higher than economists had ex- drive down measures of consumer sentipected. And they climbed 0.3% from August ment about the economy. elevated as midterm With fuel much more expensive, air fares to September, an elevated pace that, if it continued for a year, would run well above the rose 1.2% last month and have soared 22% elections near compared with a year ago. Hotel prices rose Fed’s 2% target.

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AP economics writer

WASHINGTON — U.S. inflation accelerated last month as gasoline and many other goods and services became more expensive, evidence that rising prices remain an economic challenge just a few weeks before midterm elections that have focused heavily on affordability. The consumer price index rose 3.7% in September compared with a year ago, the Labor Department said Wednesday, up from 3.4% in August. On a monthly basis, costs jumped 0.6% from August to September, the biggest gain in five months, up from a 0.4% increase the previous month. The figures underscore the lingering impact of the Iran war on gas prices and the stubborn persistence of inflation, which has ticked higher since the war began in late February. The rise isn’t all linked to oil and gas, as surging investment in data centers and AI has also pushed up prices for computer chips and the consumer electronics that use them. Elevated inflation has posed political problems for Republicans in Congress and is a challenge for the Federal Reserve, which is required by Congress to seek stable prices. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose 2.6% in September

Higher inflation will likely put more pressure on the Fed to lift its key interest rate at its next meeting Oct. 27-28. Economists noted that the report showed price increases were spread more broadly across the economy than in recent months. “The report was worse than expected,” Bill Adams, chief U.S. economist at Fifth Third Bank, said in a note to clients. “Price increases were widespread. ... Consumer demand seems to be holding up better than the downbeat consumer surveys would suggest, helping businesses maintain pricing power.” Wednesday’s figures are the last major inflation data to be released before the upcoming elections. Ongoing inflation has taken a toll on Trump’s standing with U.S. voters. A poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 17% of U.S. adults approve of his handling of the cost of living issue. And only 26% approve of his handling of the economy overall, a new low. Higher prices are eroding Americans’ earnings. The Labor Department also said Wednesday that average weekly paychecks, when adjusted for inflation, shrank last month compared with a year ago for the first time since May. Gas prices jumped 9.1% just from August to September, the government’s consumer price index report said. Rising gas costs are

2% from August to September and are up 4.4% compared with a year earlier. Consumers saw some relief in grocery prices, which actually declined 0.1% last month and are up just 1.8% from a year ago. Ground beef prices fell 0.8% in September, though they are still up 5.4% from last year. The cost of toys, new and used cars, sporting goods, and shoes all rose at a rapid clip last month, the government said. The government also said Wednesday that Social Security recipients will receive a 3.6% cost of living increase, based on the inflation figures. The Middle East and Russia-Ukraine conflicts have also sharply inflated the cost of diesel fuel, which is used by long-haul trucks. Higher diesel prices will increase shipping expenses, which in turn could push up prices for a range of goods. Ralph Newhouse, CEO of Chefman, which makes countertop appliances, said that rising diesel prices could force him to raise prices in the coming months. The Mahwah, N.J.-based company, which makes milk frothers, air fryers, blenders and other appliances in China, last increased its prices in 2024. This year, it has used its $20 million in tariff refunds to offset the rise in fuel costs, but may not be able to do so much longer.

U.S. stocks drop to their worst day since July BY STAN CHOE

AP business writer NEW YORK — U.S. stocks dropped to their worst day since July on Wednesday following the latest signal that inflation is getting worse. The S&P 500 sank 1.1% for a fifth loss in the six days since setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 48 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite slid 1.9% as stocks in the artificialintelligence industry led the way lower. Stocks felt pressure from rising yields in the bond market, where worries grew after a report said U.S. consumers had to pay prices for fuel, food and other costs of

living last month that were 3.7% higher overall than a year earlier. That means inﬂation accelerated from its 3.4% rate in August and was worse than the 3.6% that economists expected. Inflation has remained more painful than anyone would like since the economy catapulted out of the crevasse created by the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s accelerated recently in part because of jumps in fuel prices caused by the war with Iran, and the price for a barrel of Brent crude added 0.4% Wednesday to $106.06. That has added to the longstanding worries about fast-rising debt loads for governments, signals that the U.S. economy is still growing and other factors that have

sent bond yields to their highest levels in years. The centerpiece of the U.S. bond market, the 10-year Treasury, saw its yield brieﬂy jump above 5.32% from less than 5.17% just before the inflation report’s release. It eventually gave back much of the gain. Yields on shorter-term Treasurys had even bigger leaps as traders raised their expectations for coming hikes to interest rates by the Federal Reserve, though they also moderated as the day progressed. The Fed recently raised the interest rate that it controls, which affects very short-term loans, for the first time in three years in hopes of reining in inﬂation. Higher rates do that by making it more

expensive for everyone to borrow money and slowing the overall economy. Traders now see a nearly 35% chance the Fed will raise the federal funds rate at its next meeting in two weeks, up from the 22% probability seen a day earlier, according to data from CME Group. Part of what’s keeping inflation high is that Americans overall are continuing to spend, which encourages businesses to keep raising prices for their products and services. As Americans become more “price-sensitive” and the economy also benefits from greater productivity by workers, Vanguard Senior Economist Adam Schickling said inflation should slow, but “patience will be required.”

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Continued from page 1A for failing to meet the “academic performance obligations” in their charter contracts, which allow them to operate if they meet certain conditions, according to the Oct. 1 letters signed by Kelli Jordan, the district’s chief schools and accountability ofﬁcer. The warnings come as the district considers closing several schools with low scores, declining enrollment, or both. NOLA Public Schools Superintendent Fateama Fulmore has said several schools must close, and L.B. Landry High School in Algiers has also been put on notice. The district has often shut down schools based on low test scores and other academic measures, a fact that researchers say contributed to the school system’s academic gains over the last two decades. Closures typically occur when a school’s charter contract is due to be renewed every three to ten years, but neither King nor Williams is currently up for renewal.

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Continued from page 1A that met for months on Orleans Parish cases under the guidance of the District Attorney’s Office had decided to investigate Murrill, according to Williams and White. When Williams’ office recused, Roche couldn’t turn to the Attorney General’s Office, as normally happens. In the texts, White and McGowan exchanged favorable impressions of the grand jury as a hardworking group willing to work off hours for either purpose. “If anything needs to get bumped, it gets bumped. And frankly, if it came down to whether a murderer was going to be released between now and next Thursday, I kind of suspect this group would come back on Friday, sit and consider issuing the indictment on that case,” McGowan wrote. White responded: “This group might work full time!! Thank you.” Several of the newly released texts describe arrangements for Williams to appear before the grand jury. “Hey Ned, Has the DA told you when he will be available for my project?” White wrote on June 10. Many officials had arrived for their turn in front of the grand jury in need of deference, White wrote. “I have six witnesses starting at 1 p.m. lined up (with counsel and their drivers as they want parking places) and these folks are VIP’s, just ask ‘em!!!” read one text. Two weeks later, White agreed in one text message that Williams could appear last among a parade of elected city leaders. “I have the last city council person at 1,” she wrote. She also asked for McGowan’s “input on the language once I see what goes into one under these particular circumstances.” McGowan later writes: “If

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District officials have warned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter Elementary School that it could be shut down for poor academic performance. However, stricter school-accountability standards that the Orleans Parish School Board adopted this year allow the district to intervene in schools before their contracts expire if they have accumulated multiple D or F ratings. “You can’t continue to go on with persistent underperformance without being in jeopardy of (not)

they give you the specific charges in advance, it will be easier to put the bill together…My favorite quote: when in a hurry, go slowly!” McGowan confirmed in one text that he emailed White “a word version of an indictment.” He’d just texted that Williams was headed to the courthouse, where the grand jury awaited.

Records release? The grand jury arrived to a frenzied courthouse a week later to indict Murrill on 16 counts of public intimidation and malfeasance in office. It accused her of crimes for letters she sent Williams, Mayor Helena Moreno and five City Council members about their support for an election and appointment of an interim leader for a newly unified court clerk’s post in the city. Murrill’s lawyers argued this week that the texts show why the Louisiana Supreme Court should appoint an outside judge and an “independent custodian of records” to handle a pair of lawsuits they’ve filed against White and Williams for public records. White and Williams counter that the court should defer to an ongoing criminal investigation by Louisiana State Police, ordered by Gov. Jeff Landry and overseen by northshore District Attorney Collin Sims. The Louisiana Supreme Court appointed Sims to that post in August, along with an ad hoc judge, Robert Chaisson. Williams’ office had provided records to Rodrigue and law partner Blake Arcuri. The District Attorney’s Office has yet to provide the same records to The TimesPicayune | The Advocate, which requested them on Sept. 28. Williams’ office did not immediately respond Wednesday to a request for comment about the text messages. In formal responses, attorneys for the district attorney argue that the State Police probe should trump their additional demands for records. In a letter to Rodrigue dat-

continuing to operate,” Fulmore said at a recent district meeting. King and Williams are the ﬁrst two charter schools to face potential closure under the new board policy allowing midcontract performance reviews. Williams’ contract is not set to expire until 2030, while King’s contract extends through 2028.

ed Tuesday, Matthew Paul, an attorney for the District Attorney’s Office, wrote that the criminal probe leaves no doubt that the records they seek “are protected from disclosure under the ‘pending criminal litigation’ exception” to public records disclosure in state law. In a filing this week with the Louisiana Supreme Court, the district attorney’s attorneys argued that it already responded to the public records request, and if anything, the court should stay the public records lawsuits. The District Attorney’s Office accuses Arcuri of trying to run a parallel investigation. “The Court should be vigilant in preventing the weaponization of the Public Records Law against law enforcement agencies,” the DA’s attorneys wrote. Rodrigue, who often represents law enforcement agencies, disputed Williams’ stance on Wednesday, arguing that the exception for criminal litigation applies to public records held by the agency doing the investigating. “They’re trying to say, ‘We are being investigated for our actions, and therefore we should not have to turn over public records,’” Rodrigue said. “This would result in a whole new carveout from public records law.” In her filing to the Supreme Court, Rodrigue pointed to a controversy involving “subpoenas” not authorized by a judge that were sent out under her father, former District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, to pressure witnesses. Williams, then a City Council member, criticized Cannizzaro for trying to shield the recipients from being questioned about them.

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(The Orleans Parish School Board voted to shutter Dr. Martin Luther King High School in 2024, but allowed Friends of King to continue operating the elementary school.) In the letters, district officials cited both schools’ academic performance scores, which are largely based on state standardized tests, dating back several years. Williams earned an F in 2022 and D’s from 2023 to 2025, while King earned F’s in 2023 and 2025 and a D in 2024. The persistently low scores allow the district to consider revoking the schools’ charters before they end, according to the letters. The district could elect to close the schools or allow them to continue operating but with additional restrictions or oversight. A third school, Young Audiences at Lawrence D. Crocker, was ﬂagged in an email Fulmore sent to board members in September as “not being in good academic standing” after it earned a second D in four years. Those marks are not severe enough to trigger a data review and possible closure. The schools now must submit improvement plans to the district and undergo a more intensive data

guidance and a lawyer. She wrote that she received a letter this month from Sims indicating she’s a “potential target” of the criminal probe and argued that Murrill shouldn’t be allowed simultaneously to pursue a public records case against her. She wrote that she’s been “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.” Williams’ ofﬁce has argued that it stayed away from Murrill’s indictment as best as it could. Any help McGowan and another prosecutor provided to White had no bearing on the grand jury’s decision to indict the Republican attorney general, Paul wrote. “OPDA was not aware that Judge White was being considered for the role until after she was appointed,” Paul wrote. “The fact that

evaluation. They will make public presentations at a Nov. 5 meeting about why they should remain open. King board members said at their meeting Tuesday that they may hire a consultant to help them navigate the process. The board’s attorney, Willie Zanders, also pointed to Fulmore’s recommendation in 2024 to keep King elementary school open while shuttering the high school. He played a recording of an Orleans Parish School Board meeting from that year when Fulmore said King elementary students had shown academic growth and the school’s enrollment had remained steady while the high school lost students.” Zanders recently submitted a wide-ranging records request to the district seeking information about how ofﬁcials will determine whether or not to close King. He said it is unclear whether the former high school’s scores were factored into the elementary school’s past ratings. “We want documentation,” he said, “and we don’t want it to be conﬂated with the high school that closed.”

Judge White was sharing a grand jury with OPDA meant that some coordination was unavoidable. Here again, OPDA was not consulted about this decision and played no part in it.” He wrote that McGowan set boundaries, denying a request by White to use the grand jury room inside the District Attorney’s Ofﬁce. In his view, the texts between White and McGowan or Macdonald, who coordinated the grand jury, amounted to logistics. “At one point, Judge White asked Ms. Macdonald for blank subpoena forms. Ms. Macdonald explained that the court’s law clerk could provide the forms,” he wrote. “At another point, Judge White asked Mr. McGowan for a sample bill of indictment form so she could ‘research the potential language’ she would need for an indictment,” he added. “Mr. McGowan sent her a bill of indictment from an unrelated rape case, which

clearly had nothing to do with any charges the grand jury might have been considering against Attorney General Murrill.” Those texts “reflect the same courtesy that would be shown to any special prosecutor handling a case in Orleans Parish following recusal by OPDA,” wrote Paul, a partner with Stanley, Reuter, Alford, Owen, Munson & Paul. “No one at OPDA did anything to make it more or less likely that the independent grand jury would return an indictment against Attorney General Murrill.” When the Louisiana Supreme Court might rule on the dueling legal filings is uncertain. Staff writer Matt Bruce contributed to this story.

Sharing a grand jury White soon dismissed the case against Murrill under pressure from the elected leaders she allegedly victimized. Murrill has said she may sue for malicious prosecution. White asked the Louisiana Supreme Court last week for

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Ukrainian drones forced to slow by Starlink restrictions BY HANNA ARHIROVA, SAMYA trated the Ukrainian military SpaceX company overnight KULLAB and BARRY HATTON and deepened fears that Ky- imposed a speed limit on Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian drones lost some of their speed after restrictions were suddenly imposed on battleﬁeld use of the country’s U.S.made Starlink communication terminals, ofﬁcials said Wednesday as the capital endured a second consecutive night of missile attacks. At the same time, Ukraine did not receive the usual advance warning from its Western partners about the devastating Russian ballistic missiles aimed at Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, triggering fears that Ukraine is being starved of vital intelligence, especially from the U.S. Zelenskyy did not specify which partners he was talking about when referring to the lack of warning. U.S. President Donald Trump has said the U.S. has not stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine. The developments frus-

iv’s relationship with Washington is unraveling. Ukrainian officials fear U.S. support for the war effort is falling away after Trump struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel despite international efforts to sanction Russia for its invasion and isolate Putin. Trump has also leveled sharp criticism at Zelenskyy. He said Saturday that it was time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting Zelenskyy has not done enough to end the war with Russia and blaming him for high diesel prices in the U.S. Trump’s efforts to stop the ﬁghting have yielded no progress. Ukrainian officials are concerned that U.S. support, especially related to the sharing of military intelligence and the use of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite communications system, may be in jeopardy. The American tech titan’s

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Museum renovations draw concerns Board members question work at Madame John’s Legacy

BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN and SOPHIE KASAKOVE

Staff writers

As two Louisiana State Museum board members arrived at Madame John’s Legacy in New Orleans’ French Quarter on Aug. 10, the smell of freshly cut wood hit their noses. Inside the state-owned 18th century building, which is designated

as a museum but closed to the public, wooden beams had been chopped into blocks and were stacked against a wall. Nearby, what looked like a shutter was covered in sawdust, and painted pieces of stairs had been cut into pieces. Other architectural components appeared to be missing, according to the board members, Kim Abramson and Kevin Kelly, who

Restoration of the state-owned Madame John’s Legacy property has drawn controversy from preservationists who questioned whether the work followed accepted historic-preservation standards.

also run a group set up to support programming at Madame John’s Legacy under an agreement with the state. They said state museum employees were on site when they arrived, and Abramson shared photos of the visit. “I will never forget walking into Madame John’s Legacy and the smell of the fresh sawdust, and

STAFF FILE PHOTO BY DAVID GRUNFELD

ä See MUSEUM, page 6B

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Planned Parenthood reopens N.O. clinic Baton Rouge location remains closed

BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer

STAFF PHOTO BY ENAN CHEDIAK

Douglas Gamble rides a hydrofoil with a wing on Lake Pontchartrain at West End Park in New Orleans. The lake’s wide-open water and steady winds make it an ideal spot for wing foiling.

Self-defense invoked in fatal gunbattle on Bourbon Street Chicago mother was killed on Sept. 28, 2025

BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer

A fatal shootout last year that claimed the life of a single mother visiting town from Chicago happened after one of the alleged shooters made a pass at a woman dancing on a busy Bourbon Street corner. Dontrell Bradley, 20, was shot four times during the Sept. 28, 2025, melee in the 200 block of Bourbon. When he returned ﬁre

at his alleged shooter, Mekhi violence” before testimony in Jarius Andry, one of the bul- Bradley’s trial began Wedneslets struck Jessica Williams in day morning. the back. The 33-yearThe DeSoto, Texas, old mother of two was man is being tried this in New Orleans with week on charges of family to celebrate her second-degree murder, birthday. attempted murder and She and her sister two counts of aggrawere walking back to vated second-degree her hotel room as Bradbattery during a crime of violence. He faces ley and Andry traded Williams a mandatory life senvolleys of gunﬁre. Williams fell and died on Bourbon tence if the jury of 10 women Street. and two men agrees he’s guilty Her sister and another victim of murder. were also wounded in a shootDistrict Judge Rhonda Goodeout that prosecutors from Dis- Douglas is presiding over the trict Attorney Jason Williams’ trial, which is expected to run ofﬁce described as “senseless through the week.

“This case will really come down to three words that we don’t think about on a daily basis: reasonable, imminent and necessary,” Assistant District Attorney Matthew Derbes told jurors during his opening statement. “I want you to ask yourselves, was this reasonable? Was this necessary?” Devin Jones, Bradley’s defense attorney, argued that it was necessary after Andry had ﬁred on Bradley during an exchange of words. He said Andry initially ran in one direction, but turned and began running back toward Bradley, who was

ä See SELF-DEFENSE, page 2B

On Wednesday morning, a security guard paced the gated perimeter of Planned Parenthood’s South Claiborne Avenue clinic, where staffers were preparing to treat patients for the first time in roughly a year. “We’ve only been open for about an hour. So it’s a little quiet so far, but we have a full schedule and are excited to see patients,” said associate medical director Lori Williams. Last September, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast shuttered its two Louisiana clinics after more than 40 years in the state, amid what Planned Parenthood Great Plains CEO Emily Wales called “political attacks.” Those included federal Medicaid funding restrictions and opposition from officials such as Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who described Planned Parenthood as “a business (built) around promoting death.” Gov. Jeff Landry at the time called the closures a win for babies and mothers. Planned Parenthood Great Plains, meanwhile, had already been eyeing Louisiana for expansion to meet the local need for contraception, STI care, cancer screenings, gender-affirming care and other reproductive health services. In June, Wales announced plans to reopen the New Orleans clinic under the Great Plains affiliate, which for 90 years has operated in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. “We’re a different organization, but we also operate in red states with hostile legislatures who often don’t value sexual and reproductive health care,” Wales said in a Tuesday phone interview. “We’ve been able to make our model of continuing healthcare work for a long time, and we’re committed to bringing that same effort and approach we use in other states to Louisiana.” Half of the organization’s funding is supplied through private donations and half through clinical revenue. That model ensures patients in need can access care at little or no cost. At the New Orleans location, six employees will treat 15 to 20 patients a day. There are no immediate plans to reopen a Baton Rouge location, though telehealth appointments are available. “We heard from folks in Baton Rouge that there are health care deserts, and we will figure out a way to be more present in those communities,” Wales said. Any expansion into Baton Rouge would come amid an ongoing legal battle over abortion access in Louisiana, where Murrill has challenged federal rules governing abortion medication and pursued

ä See CLINIC, page 6B

STAFF PHOTO BY DAVID GRUNFELD

The Planned Parenthood Health Center at 4636 S. Claiborne Ave. in New Orleans reopened Wednesday.

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Council OKs $50K for synthetic ice rink Rink will be available during 5-week period

BY LARA NICHOLSON

Staff writer

Christmas in Louisiana doesn’t always feel like Christmas, at least if you go by Northerners’ standards. Winter coats and scarves are often traded for baseball caps and khaki shorts, and sleds on snowy hills are replaced with cardboard boxes sliding down grassy levees. Sno-balls are frozen treats, not something to throw at friends. But on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish, Christmas may feel a touch more wintry this year with a new ice skating rink — albeit a synthetic one that’s able to survive the south’s heat. The Jefferson Parish Council on Wednesday approved a $50,000 agreement to temporarily host a portable synthetic ice rink with the West Bank Economic Development Association, a nonprofit that organizes other events like the Terrytown Food Truck Festival. Funding will come from Jefferson Parish Council District 1’s discretionary fund, using parish taxes collected from riverboat gaming. The rink will be available to the public for at least three days a week during a five-week period each year for the next three years. Jefferson Parish Council Member Timothy Kerner Jr., who proposed the rink, said the official location, ticketing and opening date are not yet determined, but he hopes to

STAFF FILE PHOTO BY ENAN CHEDIAK

Visitors skate on a synthetic rink during the Let It Sneaux event at the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans on Jan. 18. host it near the riverfront in Gretna this December. The agreement calls for it to be free for Jefferson Parish residents. “Kids get to experience something that they may never get to experience, and then hopefully families stop at restaurants, go shopping and buy the kids a sno-ball after or ice cream,” Kerner said.

Synthetic ice is a polymer surface for blade steel skates to glide upon, although the increased friction can mean skaters have to work a little harder. In a place like Louisiana with warm temperatures year-round, synthetic ice is the only affordable means to provide outdoor ice skating, Kerner said. Plus, the portable

rink allows for the venue to change to beneﬁt different communities. Some locals with little or no skating experience said they aren’t bothered by the idea of skating on polymer. Ashley Bourgeois Miller, of Terrytown, said she might not even be able to tell the difference between real or synthetic ice after only ice

skating once at the The Galleria in Houston “a lifetime ago.” She hopes to take her 3-year-old daughter, a fan of the Disney movie “Frozen,” so she can try “living out her favorite princess dreams.” “We get to go to the beach like Moana, why not go skating like Elsa?” Miller said. Ice skating opportunities are few and far between in southeast Louisiana. The closest permanent rink is Planet Ice Rink in Lafayette, followed by George’s Pond at Hirsch Coliseum in Shreveport. During winter, NOLA ChristmasFest offers indoor ice skating on real ice from Dec. 23 to Jan. 2 on at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The Audubon Aquarium also hosted a skating event on synthetic ice for a weekend last winter, although a spokesperson said they do not have plans to host the event this winter. Uniqua Allen, 32, said she looks forward to having an ice rink on the West Bank, as she’s been looking for more options for physical activity since moving to Harvey last month from Biloxi, Mississippi. Allen said she’s never tried ice skating before — she did try roller skating once, but broke both of her ankles in the process. Nevertheless, she said she plans to bring a new friend with her to skate once the rink opens. She just hopes they’ll have plastic skate aids for her to hold on to. “I feel like it would still be fun, because it’s something new and different,” Allen said. “I would be going for the experience.”

Marion McCollam, founding force of N.O. arts council, dies at 95 BY JOHN POPE

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 complications 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 pro-

gram and is dedicated to sat on the board of the Ursupporting arts and culture ban League of New Orleans, in the region by working resigned in 1990 to lead the with individuals, groups and Cultural Arts Council of organizations. Houston (now the Houston “She had a perArts Alliance). In that role, she idensonal enthusiasm for the arts and loved tified, recruited them,” said John and nurtured talBullard, former dient. McCollam, who rector of the New held that post until Orleans Museum of 1998, later founded Art. “She wanted to McCollam Consee the arts flourish McCollam here. She saw the sultants, which Arts Council as a vehicle to advised arts organizations promote all the arts in New around the country. She also Orleans.” taught in Goucher College’s McCollam took the job master’s degree program six years after the council’s in arts administration and founding. later served on its advisory “She really built it,” said committee. Shirley Trusty Corey, who She was a former presisucceeded her. “She had dent of the U.S. Urban a sense of the things that Arts Foundation and the needed to be done to move vice chair of the National the arts ahead in the city.” Assembly of Local Arts Although McCollam had Agencies. She advised to deal with a variety of the National Endowment groups, personalities and of the Arts and sat on the temperaments, “she had a advisory board of Tulane great deal of confidence and University’s Newcomb Art self-assurance,” said Anne Gallery, was a member of Milling, a friend since their the American Institute of days in the Junior League Certified Planners and was of New Orleans. “She didn’t made an honorary member feel threatened by anyone.” of the American Institute of McCollam, a former Ju- Architects. The Arts Management Innior League president who

stitute 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 accom-

plished,” 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. Email John Pope at pinckelopes@gmail.com.

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lying on the ground bleeding. When Andry looked his way as he passed by, that’s when Bradley pulled out his pistol and began firing from the pavement. “This is a tragedy,” Jones said. “Nothing about this is fun or safe. Nothing about this is something that we want to have to deal with. But it is a reality of the situation that was created not by him, but by somebody that’s not even in here.” Andry, 21, was indicted separately for his role in the gunbattle, charged with attempted second-degree murder for shooting Bradley and manslaughter in connection with Williams’ death. He also was also indicted for obstruction of justice after prosecutors accused him of removing his gun from the crime scene. Andry’s trial is set to begin Jan. 11 before District Judge Kimya Holmes. Derbes, who heads up the district attorney’s homicide division, promised a key piece of evidence in footage from the city’s Real Time Crime Center of the shoot-

He said Andry was walking with a group of young people that included another man and two women. They appeared to be enjoying themselves as they walked the pub crawl along the city’s famous party strip. The two women began dancing in the streets as they approached Iberville Street. That’s when Bradley and his cousin walked past and ﬂirted with the women. Jones said the two groups had crossed paths earlier that evening, and Bradley asked one of the women accompanying Andry for her phone number. When he saw her and a friend dancing in the street later, he again made a pass at her. Andry intervened, and the two men began arguing. The cameras showed Bradley gesturing at Andry from about 25 feet away, Derbes said. When he stepped toward Andry, the Metairie man opened fire and shot Bradley multiple times. Jones said Bradley was dealing with a personal tragedy. Several younger cousins died in a house ﬁre near New Orleans about a month before the shooting, prompting his move from Texas to

Bradley and a cousin went to Bourbon Street to “talk to girls” as a way to relieve stress. “He didn’t go on Bourbon to start anything; he didn’t go on Bourbon to get into it with anyone,” Jones said. He told jurors Bradley believed he was in imminent danger after Andry shot him and “ﬁred shots to save his life.” Derbes said using lethal force requires meeting a high legal threshold to justify a self-defense claim. Under state law, an aggressor must prove they faced an imminent danger of death or great bodily harm.

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Geraldine Elizabeth Boes, sisters; Barbara Ann Boes and Jo-Anne Boes Holmgren, and brothers; Raymond Francis Boes and Charles William Boes. She is survived by her sister Geraldine Elizabeth Boes; three nieces and their husbands; and a host of great nieces and nephews. Rose will sadly missed by all her family and friends. All are welcome to attend the Funeral Mass at Divine Mercy Catholic Church, 4337 Sal Lentini Pkwy, Kenner, LA 70065 on Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 12 Noon. Visitation is at 10:30 a.m. with Interment to follow the Mass at Lake Lawn Park Mausoleum. The family request Masses in honor of Rose instead of flowers. To sign and view the Family Guestbook, please visit www.lakelawnmetairie.co m

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Dollis, Sr. A proud 1967 graduate of Booker T. Washington High School, Mary earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern University at New Orleans in 2005. She retired as an Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist with U.S. Customs. She leaves to cherish her memory her daughter, Tamara Dollis-Veal (Felters A. Sr.); son, Eddie Dollis Jr.; five grandchildren: Felters A. Jr., Falan, Eddie III, Endya, and Eymni; one great-granddaughter, Karsyn; sisters, Vanesta Ball and Delores Quarels; and brother-in-law, Bernard (Shirley) Dollis. Family and friends are invited to celebrate Mary's life on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 10 a.m. at Law Street Baptist Church, 3132 Law Street. Visitation begins at 9 a.m. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Arrangements: Professional Funeral Services.

October 19, 2026, in a private burial/committal at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery. Special thanks to all those who called, text, visited, and said a prayer during this difficult time. Very special thanks to the St. John the Baptist Parish Deputies and Ambulance personnel, District Attorney Bridget A. Dinvaut and staff, PDO Chief Fontella Baker and staff, and the Judges, Attorneys and staff of the Eastern District of Louisiana | United States District Court, 40th Judicial District Court, 24th Judicial District Court, Jefferson Juvenile Court, and Orleans Civil, Criminal and Juvenile Courts. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

Marva was a college graduate and dedicated educator who devoted her career to the education and development of children. She was also a selfpublished poet who enjoyed writing, dancing, classic Western films, and spending time at the senior center. She was preceded in death by her parents; her stepfather, Joseph Bullock; and her brothers, Milfred Laurent Jr., Joseph Laurent Sr., Earl Laurent, Anthony Laurent Sr, and Verdell Laurent Sr.

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Obituaries Alexander, Yvonne Cosey

Yvonne Cosey Alexander beloved mother, cherished family matriarch and faithful servant of God transition from this earthly home to eternal rest on Thursday, October 1, 2026, in Killeen TX. at the age of 91. She leaves to cherish her memory, her loving children; Karen J. Guidry, Tyrone, Thaddeus, Gregory, Rodney and Herman M. Johnson, a host of grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, great-greatgrandchildren; nieces, nephews, extended family and dear friends. Members of Payne Memorial A.M.E. Church and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Service on Saturday, October 17, 2026, for 10:00 a.m. at Payne Memorial A.M.E. Church, 3306 S. Liberty St. New Orleans, LA. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Pastor Shelton O. Myers officiating. Interment will follow at St. Louis Cemetery #3. Arrangements entrusted to The Boyd Family Funeral Home. Livestream:https:// youtube.com/live/CnxYDb LZ1IM. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com or crematenola.com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

Boes, Rose Ann

Frederick Charles Branch was born in In New Orleans, LA on June 25,1951 Frederick entered peacefully into eternal rest on October 5, 2026, son of the late Lionel A. Branch, Sr. and Anna Francis Branch. Beloved brother of Edna V., Dr. Lionel A., Jr., Ferdinand B., Sr. and Jenny S. Branch. Nephew of Lucretia Branch of Ft Worth, Texas. Frederick was educated in the public schools of Orleans Parish. He is a Joseph S. Clark Bulldog, Class of 1969. He completed his post high school education at Delgado Community College receiving an Associated Degree in Fire Safety. He went on to join the workforce, working in security for many years. Relatives and Friends of the Family, Pastors, Officers and Members of Morris Brown AME Church, New Light Baptist Church, Second Zion Baptist Church No. 1 and all neighboring churches are invited to attend the Funeral Services on Saturday at CharbonnetLabat-Glapion Funeral Home 1615 St Phillip St., New Orleans, LA 70116 Visitation 9:00am Service 10:00am. Interment St. Vincent DePaul Cemetery No. 2. Please sign the online guestbook www.char bonnetfuneralhome.com. Charbonnet Labat Glapion Directors, (504) 581 -4411.

Catherine, Thedous Alton

Born in Zachary, Louisiana. Later moved to Gary Indiana. A veteran of the U. S. Army serving in Korea. A visitation will be held from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM on 2026-10-16 at Richardson Funeral Home, 11816 Jackson Street. A funeral service will be held from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM on 2026-10-16 at Richardson Funeral Home, 11816 Jackson Street. A burial will be held from 1:30 PM to 2:00 PM on 2026-10-16 at Louisiana National Cemetery-Port Hudson, 303 West Mt. Pleasant.

Dollis, Mary Ann

Rose Ann Boes of Kenner, LA. passed away at the age of 73 on October 12, 2026. A native of the Irish Channel and graduated from Redemptorist High School. She spent her career working for the U.S. Postal Service for 25 years until her retirement. She enjoyed doing volunteer work at Divine Mercy Catholic Church, as well on going on various trips. Rose was preceded in death by her parents, Charles Francis Boes and

Mary Ann Dollis, a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, entered eternal rest at her New Orleans home on Saturday, October 3, 2026. She was the wife of the late Eddie

Charles Ray Hilliard, Jr. was born on June 4, 1996, to Ms. Hester R. GlostonHilliard and the late Charles R. Hilliard, Sr. He was reared in a Christian home and with a mother that was an ordained minister, he learned about God and came to love and reverence the Lord at an early age. He was baptized by Pastor Steve O. Allen at Destiny Christian Center where he remained a faithful member until his unexpected and early death on October 5, 2026. C.J. was a lifelong resident of St. John the Baptist Parish wherein he lived in the same home for all but 5 years of his life. From 2010 - 2015 the Hilliard Family had a second home in Destrehan, La wherein C.J. attended St. Charles Public Schools and finished his high school education at Destrehan High School. C.J. was a loving, respectful, giving and helpful young man who would help anyone even if it meant that he would go without. After the death of his father, who he was very close to, C.J. was his mother's protector, shadow, helpmate, driver, companion and everything else his father taught him to be. The only thing C.J. and his father disagreed on was who's NFL team was the best. C.J. was a die heart Atlanta Falcon's Fan while his father was a Dallas Cowboy fan. C.J.'s bedroom, bathroom, dress, and décor centered around the Atlanta Falcons or the Dirty Birds. He also enjoyed listening to Kevin Gates with his favorite song being "In God I Trust." C.J. was proceeded in death by his father, Charles R. Hilliard, Sr., his grandfathers, Freddie Battie, Jr. And Rufus Starch, grandmother, Gladys Dorothy Dean Hilliard (Elton) Martin. Charles R. Hilliard Jr. leaves to cherish his precious and loving memory his mother, Ms. Hester R. Gloston-Hilliard, Esq. and her devoted partner, Vivan Mackey III.; his older brother who he admired and wanted to be just like him, Freddie D. (Darian) Gloston; sisters, Catherine G. (Carvase) Perrilloux, Cathy R. Hilliard, Catina Charlene Hilliard (Jonathan) Hayes, and Kelly Hilliard; his grandmother, Catherine Ann Gloston, who he checked on and helped daily; a loving great-great aunt, Mathilda Battie; favorite and special aunt, Octavia (Christopher) Scott; aunts and uncles, Ronnie and Evangeline Battie, Lisa and Demetrius James, Edward Jackson, Troy Jackson, Freddie Battie, III. and Rickie Battie; he was also Uncle C.J. to his 19 nieces and nephews and 1 great neice; his best friend, Devyn Jefferson, devoted cousins Jo'Relle, Michelle Jenkins and Christopher (Dooda) Scott, Jr., and a host of other relatives and friends. Family and friends are invited to the Celebration of Life for C.J. on Saturday, October 17, 2026, with visitation to begin at 9:00 a.m. and service at 10:00 a.m., Destiny Christian Center, 612 Main Street, LaPlace, Louisiana 70068, Pastor Steve O. Allen, officiating. C.J. will be laid to rest with his father on Monday,

Poplous, Estelle Louise Anderson

Estelle Louise Poplous entered eternal rest on Monday, October 5, 2026, at the age of 76. She was a lifelong native of N. O. LA. Estelle was a licensed Cosmetologist for more than fifty years. Estelle is survived by her sons; Troy R. Poplous, and Freddie L. Nicholas, Jr.; siblings, Calenthia Bartholomew and Karen AndersonStancil, and the late Joseph (Barbara), Clyde, and Reginald Anderson; devoted cousin; Deborah Norwood; nephew, Byron A. Green; sister-in-law Anna Marie Poplous, and a host of other relatives and many dear and beloved friends. Relatives, friends, and employees of the Louisiana Superdome, Mt. Hermon B. C., InspireNOLA, McD 35 Alumni, and UTNO are invited to attend funeral services on Friday, October 16, 2026, at Duplain W. Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Ave, N. O. LA 70125. Visitation is at 9:00 A.M. and Services are 10:00 A.M. Interment: Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Duplain W. Rhodes Funeral Home, New Orleans, LA. Please visit www.rhdoesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

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Marva Marguerite Laurent passed away on October 7, 2026, at the age of 90. Born on June 19, 1936, she was the youngest of seven children and the only daughter of the late Milfred Laurent Sr. and Thelma Mathieu-Laurent.

She leaves to cherish her memory of her brother, Floyd Laurent Sr, son, Curtis Trufant, and a host of grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and extended family members. Marva will be remembered for her dedication to education and the lasting impact she made on those whose lives she touched. May she rest in eternal peace. Arrangements by D. W. Rhodes Funeral Home. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

Miles, Oliver 'Sonny'

Oliver "Sonny" Miles passed away on September 29, 2026, at age 93. He was born on January 8, 1933, in McCrea, Louisiana, to the late Cleveland and Lucinda Parker Miles. He was a devoted member of Little Zion Baptist Church in Kenner, Louisiana. After 39 years of dedicated service, Sonny retired from Saia LTL Freight. He enjoyed sports and rarely missed a day of watching ESPN. He was preceded in death by his wife, Alice Matthews Miles; his parents; his daughters, Debra Miles Davis and Brenda Matthews Whitley (Lindsay) of Ethal, Louisiana; and his sister, Rosie Lee Terrell (Joe). He leaves to cherish his memories to his daughters, Joycelyn Landry (Izel), Melanie Miles, and Sandra Whins (Keith); his sister, Victoria Smith; 10 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; one great-greatgrandchild; and many other relatives and friends. Family and friends are invited to Celebrate His Life on Friday, October 16, 2026, at The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans, Louisiana 70126, for 10:00 a.m. Viewing will begin at 9:00 a.m., with Elder Roxanne Russ officiating. Interment will follow

Ruth Walker Smallwood, age 96, a retired educator, peacefully transitioned from her earthly home to her heavenly home on Friday October 2, 2026, just 26 days shy of her 97th birthday. She was a native and lifelong resident of Marrero, LA. Beloved wife of 70 years to the late Percy Smallwood, Sr. Devoted mother of Wanda Smallwood Hill, Angela Smallwood Carter, LaVern Smallwood, Yolanda Smallwood (William) Payne, Kent Smallwood, Jeffery (Nicole) Smallwood, Sr., Randal (DeShon) Smallwood, and the late Percy "Chucky" Smallwood, Jr., and Karen Smallwood Matthews. Grandmother of the late Sterling and Jeffery Smallwood, Jr. Daughter of the late Albert Walker and Elnora "Mama Pearl" Brown Walker. Loving sister of Audrey Walker Dixon, Myrtle Walker

Weber, and the late Albert, Jr., Wilbert Walker, Sr., and Bernadine Walker Vidal. Mother-in-law of Janice Smallwood and Joseph Ray Matthews. Also cherishing her memories are 15 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends. Relatives and friends of the family also pastors, officers, and members of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church and all neighboring churches are invited to attend the Celebration of Life at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, 1000 Walkertown Way Marrero, LA, on Friday October 16, 2026, at 10:00a.m. Pastor Thomas J. Brown, Jr., officiating. Viewing will be held from 8:00a.m.-9:50a.m. ONLY 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

Triplett, Ruby Lee

The world became a little less bright on October 3, 2026, when Ruby Lee Triplett passed away at the age of 89. Her life was defined by love, grace, and an unwavering devotion to her family. Her legacy lives on through her five devoted children: Cathy (Edward) Hugle, Lamar (Lashunder) Roberts, Jr., Linda A. Gordon, Terri L. Roberts, and John C. (Vera) Triplett. A sister, Birdie Fairley, and nephew Kenneth Hayes. Her legacy also lives on and on through her 11 cherished grandchildren, Shanna Hugle, Rachel Hugle, Lamar Roberts III, Jalisa Roberts, Harvey (Joy) Burse, Jr., earl (Raquel) Barnette, Jr., Lamar Barnett, James Gibson, Jr., Aalliyah Blue, Jontell Triplett, 9 greatgrandchildren: Jordan Burse, Harvey Burse III, Emani Barnett, Reginae Ward, Reginald Ward, Lamar Barnett, Jr., Kemyne Triplett, Rocket Brown, and Roshad "RJ" Brown, Jr., all of whom brought immense joy and pride to her life. Ruby has rejoined her beloved husband, John Thomas Triplett, her precious daughter, Sylvianne Haggard, dear grandson Elie Triplett and her parents, Charles Hayes and Elizabeth Turner in eternal rest. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com or crematenola.com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

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Additional recommendations for the constitutional amendments on the Nov. 3 ballot Louisiana voters are being asked to consider 10 constitutional amendments on the ballot Nov. 3. Early voting begins Oct. 20. Yesterday, we addressed amendments dealing with property tax issues. Today, the newspaper looks at the other amendments, some of which look to solve problems that are not yet apparent to us. We have often noted that our constitution is already overstuffed, and our principle is that we should amend the constitution only to address urgent or structural issues. Here are our recommendations for the remaining constitutional amendments: Amendment 3: Eliminate Post-Conviction Bail for Crimes Against Children. No This amendment would prohibit bail for defendants convicted of serious crimes against minors, such as murder, rape and aggravated assault. That would mean they would stay in custody as they appeal their conviction. While measures like this are designed to appear “tough on crime,” they actually reduce the discretion judges have to determine who is a threat to the community. It is so broad as to potentially include those who were convicted but later exonerated by DNA. And while proponents point to a few cases where criminals released on bail reoffend, we see no widespread problem here and note that in most of our state’s largest cities, crime is at an all-time low. Amendment 4: Limit Governor to Two Terms in a Lifetime. No This amendment that would limit the Louisiana governor to two terms over a lifetime has gotten much attention. The governorship is already limited to two consecutive terms, after which a candidate must sit out for one term before running again. Only two governors in our state’s 200-year history have served more than two terms: Earl Long, who won two terms after finishing the unexpired term of a governor who resigned, and Edwin Edwards, who served four terms. This should indicate that voters can be trusted to reject entrenched political dynasties. In the past, as we saw in Edwards’ race against Klan leader David Duke, old pols have been useful in uniting voters against worse options. This measure seems aimed more at limiting voter choice rather than striking a blow against political machines. Amendment 5: Add Flexibility in Paying State Retirement Debt. Yes This amendment would change a policy that is preventing government from running more efficiently, we feel. It would give state pension systems receiving one-time windfalls the flexibility to choose which debts to pay off, rather than paying the oldest debt first as the law now requires. Just as a household would choose to pay off high-interest credit cards before lower interest loans, the state’s pension agencies should not be hamstrung into paying off debts in chronological order. Amendment 7: Using Public Money for Drinking Water Service Lines. Yes This amendment would clear the way for public money to be used on private property to replace lead pipes. The issue is particularly acute in New Orleans, where aging infrastructure is a threat to public health. The federal government has millions available to fix the problem, but there is some uncertainty about whether the law allows it. This amendment could remove an unnecessary obstacle to accessing these funds. Amendment 8: Bar Expropriating Property for Foreign Adversaries. No We have no evidence of North Korean, Chinese or Iranians firms itching to get their hands on land in Louisiana that is not for sale or of government officials willing to give it to them, so this amendment preventing expropriation of land to foreign adversaries or their agents seems a bit premature. This is the quintessential example of something that could be handled with legislation rather than a constitutional amendment, if it is necessary at all.

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We fought for fair maps, so now what are we fighting for? Here we are, approaching another midterm election, and Louisiana voters have an opportunity to choose who will represent them in the United States Congress. I’ve been following the 6th Congressional District race closely, paying attention to the candidates, their backgrounds, their platforms and the endorsements being made. And as I watch everything unfold, I can’t help but think back to those legislative hearings and all the conversations about fair representation. I ﬁnd myself wondering where some of that same passion and urgency have gone. During the redistricting debate, there was no shortage of public state-

influenced by many factors, including policy positions, relationships, party priorities and different assessments of candidates’ qualifications. I’m not naive about how politics works. I’ve watched it long enough to know that there are often competing interests at play. Still, I believe it’s important to examine whether our actions reflect the principles we say matter to us. We cannot expect everyday citizens to show up, organize, testify, advocate and remain engaged while treating political leaders’ decisions as though they are beyond public questioning.

ments about the importance of Black representation and protecting the voices of historically underrepresented communities. Yet, as political endorsements and alliances take shape in this election, I ﬁnd myself questioning how some of those earlier commitments are being understood and applied today. One question in particular has stayed with me: Was the ﬁght for fair representation about ensuring Black communities have a meaningful political voice, or was it also about advancing particular political interests? And how do we distinguish the two? I recognize that politics involves strategy. I understand that endorsements are

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Accountability means taking action when schools struggle equity, access, choice and accountability, with a centralized enrollment process and districtwide policies designed to ensure that all students have fair access to schools. Our public school system must uphold consistent standards while ensuring that all schools serve students equitably. But accountability also means recognizing when schools are struggling academically or ﬁnancially and taking action to sustain students’ opportunities. These responsibilities are not mutually exclusive. As a Times-Picayune | Nola.com editorial recently noted, New Orleans is facing increasing enrollment declines that challenge the long-term sustainability of our public schools. Fewer students mean fewer resources to support teachers, programs and ser-

vices that students and schools need. School closures are difficult, and we shouldn’t minimize their impact on families and communities. However, avoiding difficult decisions does not eliminate these challenges. Our focus must remain on thoughtful, transparent, data-informed planning that prioritizes students, protects equitable access and ensures schools have the resources to deliver the education students deserve. New Orleans has made meaningful academic progress, especially in the last five years, and accelerating that progress requires us to confront these realities while keeping students at the center of every decision.

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Re: “Where will students go when the last district school closes?,” Oct. 7. In her letter, former New Orleans Schools Superintendent Barbara Ferguson raises important questions about fairness and accountability in New Orleans public schools. Every child, regardless of academic performance or individual needs, deserves access to a great school and education, and no school should be able to avoid accountability by excluding students who need additional support. However, Ferguson’s assertion that public charter schools can “pick and choose their students” or “kick out lowperforming students” misrepresents how New Orleans’ public charter schools are designed to operate. Our system is built on the principles of

Has anyone seen Steve Scalise or the rest of Louisiana’s Republican congressional delegation? I’m worried about them. In addition to being in leadership positions in a House of Representatives that has worked less than any other in half a century, they do not seem to be doing much in Louisiana. Voters deserve answers as to why our Republican leaders, in control of every aspect of our government, did not bring down prices and end all wars on Day 1 as promised. Every step of the way, they have supported and enabled the idiotic tariff regime and illegal wars that have raised everyone’s prices and led to the death of innocent civilians and American service members. They have also supported Louisiana children going hungry and Louisianans losing access to critical healthcare, all

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to provide tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Republicans have weakened our civil rights and voting rights. And they have made an enemy out of one of our closest allies, causing the state huge economic losses in the absence of Canadian tourists. Louisianans would also like to know why our leaders force data center construction without public input when the rest of the country can’t run away from them fast enough. If Louisiana Republicans were proud of their record, they would be out in public touting their accomplishments to voters. They owe Louisianans explanations, but their absence and silence say everything we need to know.

Louisiana requires every classroom to display the Ten Commandments, including “Thou shalt not kill.” Yet some in our government want to livestream the ﬁring-squad execution of the Fort Hood gunman. That act would make the commandment hollow — nothing more than decoration on a classroom wall. Children notice when adults say one thing and do another. If we mean the commandments we hang on those walls, should we not live by them?

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COMMENTARY Stop the Flock camera hysteria In the bad old crime days of New York City, I spent a Christmas Eve waiting outside an emergency room. Our foursome had been violently robbed in a subway station, and I was eager for the doctor’s report on one member who’d suffered a concussion ﬁghting off a mugger. Because someone got hurt, city detectives took the case seriously. They interviewed us and urged a trip to transit authority headquarters to look at mugshots. We did. Desperate to nail the Froma two attackers, I gazed Harrop over page after page of faces. If this happened today, subway and street cameras would have identiﬁed the criminals almost immediately. Even if they were masked, cameras would have captured their dress, gait, body type, mode of attack — and tracked their escape route. Two years ago, a knife-wielding 25-year-old man raped a 13-year-old girl in a Queens park and forced her male schoolmate to watch. Days after the NYPD released images of the attacker, locals found him, and he was soon behind bars. Stories like these are why I can’t join the widespread paranoia fueling protests against the Flock and other surveillance cameras now in public areas. The standard Flock plate-reader is a black box on a tall pole. It can record passing cars’ license plates, color, dents and bumper stickers. Police departments use them to capture suspected criminals. Republicans and Democrats alike condemn Flock cameras as invasions of privacy. Many liken them to the surveillance state in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984.” But if those critics had read “1984,” they’d know that the shocking feature of Big Brother’s cameras was their invasion of private spaces. They were inside apartments. Flock cameras

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A solar Flock Safety camera is used for reading license plates in Lafayette. can’t see through walls. Pointed at uncovered windows, especially if they’re lit, the cameras can peer inside. But so can neighbors across the street. That’s the whole point. Cameras, when properly used, see the same thing a human standing outside on a public sidewalk can observe without controversy: cars and trucks, people biking, pedestrians. Billionaires hire 24-hour security people to sit outside their mansion walls and check all who pass. Nobody complains. That’s not to say that such cameras don’t raise concerns. Some homeowners complain that cameras pointed at a neighbor’s driveway can look onto part of their own property. There were reports of a police ofﬁcer using his department’s Flock camera system to stalk his ex-girlfriend. These misuses should be addressed case by case. The argument that stalkers can use Flock cameras to harass their exes or other perceived enemies ignores the reverse. A woman being harassed can report it and ask police to check whether the same car keeps turning up on her street. Stalkers spend a

lot of time spying on their victims’ homes, and that pattern is exactly what Flock cameras record. While use of cameras by law enforcement can help find perpetrators of crimes, they can also exonerate those unjustly accused. When I was going through the transit authority’s mugshots, I probably saw interspersed pictures of innocents or nonviolent criminals, a means to test we victims’ recollections. As noted, we wanted to get the bastards. I fixed on one who sort of looked like the guy. The detective told me that he was someone who had stolen washing machines. I then said, “Maybe not.” Looking back, I may have been fingering the wrong individual, and that would have added an injustice on top of another injustice. Say “we don’t want to live like this,” and I’ll agree. Much of the recent outrage may be tied to panic over AI and other technology. But as long as these cameras cover only public spaces, let’s learn to live with them. Froma Harrop is on X, @FromaHarrop. Email her at fharrop@gmail.com.

The high cost of Abdul El-Sayed Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, expresses irritation when he is asked about his association with Hasan Piker, the streamer/provocateur who said America deserved 9/11. “I’m not here to disavow people’s views,” El-Sayed said back during the Michigan Democratic primary campaign. “I’m here to have a conversation about how to get money out of politics, put Byron money back in pockets York and pass Medicare for all.” Give El-Sayed credit for staying on message; those are the three main themes of his campaign. On his website, El-Sayed groups several positions under each one. Under “Money Out of Politics,” for example, he lists his support for terrible ideas like abolishing ICE and setting up a structure to bring waves of immigrants more quickly to the United States. He also vows to end the war in Iran, to “reform” the Supreme Court, to pass restrictive new campaign finance laws, to abolish the filibuster and more. Under the theme “Money in Your Pocket,” El-Sayed put his views on AI, on farming, on trade, on education, on housing, on data centers and more. Much of it is standard Democratic boilerplate. The last item, “Medicare for All,” gets a category by itself. If there is one policy proposal that El-Sayed seems to base his entire campaign on, it is Medicare for all. “I will fight to expand Medicare to cover all necessary healthcare, including vision, dental, and hearing, and extend it to every single American from cradle to grave without premiums, copays, or deductibles,” El-Sayed says. “Medicare should be automatic, for everyone, and accepted everywhere.” No premiums! No copays! No deductibles! El-Sayed’s Democratic audiences apparently love to hear that sort of thing. But anyone, even those not naturally skeptical, has to wonder how El-Sayed would create

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Abdul El-Sayed speaks in Detroit, Mich., in May.

this wonderful system. In the years since Medicare for All became a progressive cause, there have been several estimates for how much it would cost. The Wall Street Journal editorial page cites one study done back in 2018, when Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a Medicare for All bill, which put the price at $32.6 trillion over the program’s ﬁrst decade. Other estimates have found similar numbers, while others have said the price might go to $36 trillion or higher. El-Sayed has never offered a detailed proposal on how he would pay for the new system. In an interview with NewsNation last month, he was asked whether Medicare for All would involve raising taxes on Michigan families making around $100,000 a year. “The hope is no,” El-Sayed answered, which was not a terribly conﬁdence-inspiring response. He went on to claim that in the big picture the new system would reduce what Americans pay for health care. El-Sayed cannot solve the mas-

sive math problem that his proposal raises. Start with this fact: The total, combined net worth of every billionaire in America adds up to somewhere around $8 trillion to $9 trillion. That is everything they own — money, property, investments, etc. And then look at those estimates of the cost of Medicare for All -- around $32 trillion over its first decade. Do the math. What that means is that the government could confiscate every penny that every billionaire in America has, and it would not be enough to pay for more than a few years of Medicare for All. And then, there would be no more billionaires with wealth to confiscate. Of course, no Democrat has had what it takes to propose confiscating billionaires’ wealth. Instead, they just propose to tax the heck out of it. El-Sayed is a fan of Sen. Sanders’ and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna’s Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share bill, which would impose a 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires. It’s crazy. The wealth tax raises huge problems of how it would be calculated and how it would be collected. It raises the even bigger problem of serving as a powerful inducement for billionaires to leave the United States. And in the long run, it raises the problem of reducing the number of billionaires who are able to pay the billionaire tax. On top of that, it is probably unconstitutional. What would happen if Medicare for All were enacted as El-Sayed hopes, is that the government would have to raise taxes on Americans who are not billionaires. After all, that’s where the real money is. Remember that the net worth of all U.S. billionaires put together is $8 trillion to $9 trillion. The collective net worth of everybody else, all American non-billionaires, is somewhere around $180 trillion. Does anybody believe that a Sen. El-Sayed would not start looking at them to pay for his dreams? Byron York is on X, @Bryon York. Email him at byronyork@yorkcomm. com.

Fill the government with barbarians, you get barbaric government To understand Pete Hegseth, go beyond superficial judgments about his carefully curated image. Beneath the tattooed and testosterone-obsessed public persona there lurks altruism. He aspires to be America’s tutor. Understand this: The secretary of war wants to improve us. A live-streamed execution by firing squad might seem a problematic instrument for the nation’s moral regeneration. Nidal Hasan’s execution is scheduled for Dec. 3 at Fort Hood in Texas, where in 2009 the former Army psychiatrist killed 13 and wounded 32. Might this live-streaming desensitize the audience and coarsen society? Benjamin Rush, the Philadelphia physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, thought capital punishment “lessens the horror of taking away human life,” thereby fostering murders. Today, it neither encourages nor deters. Death sentences are handed down so capriciously and administered so glacially (Hasan’s is scheduled for 17 years after his crime), its deterrent effect, if any, is vanishingly small. Capital punishment’s clear effect is to cloak the death-dispensing state with dark majesty, and a claim to infallibility. Hence the sudden enthusiasm, in the early days of Germany’s Third Reich, for executions by handheld axes. This “swift, direct action,” George writes Peter Fritzsche in “Hitler’s Will First Hundred Days,” quoting German prosecutors, emphasized the “superiority of the state.” Nowadays, public firing squads could accomplish this. But the majesty of Tennessee’s government has not been burnished by its bungling of the not-quitelethal injection of Christa Pike. She now must be nursed back to sufficient health for the state to consider taking another crack at killing her. Her experience would have made unsatisfactory television. Hegseth says, earnestly if ungrammatically, that Hasan’s killing should be public “because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.” Who are the people whose understanding Hegseth deems unsatisfactory? Surely not terrorists of Hasan’s ilk, for whom “these types of things” (mass murder) are a religious vocation — a calling. Perhaps Hegseth thinks the other 340 million Americans need to be instructed not to commit massacres. Hegseth’s interest in strengthening cultural norms might prompt him to share his expertise with parents. Does he think children should have the formative experience of watching the live-streamed execution? The wee creatures are soft wax, impressionable, and perhaps counterterrorism indoctrination cannot start too early. If Hasan’s live-streamed execution is supposed to be statecraft as soulcraft, perhaps the government should sell the television rights to this spectacle. It could be a Netflix special. Or a pay-per-view moneymaker for the government. Public instruction by death in prime time could also be a deficit-reduction measure, financed voluntarily by Americans snacking on bowls of popcorn while viewing. There is precedent. In 1936, America’s next-tolast public execution (the hanging of a Kentucky Black man convicted of raping a White woman) was enjoyed by perhaps 20,000 spectators, some of whom might have attended the previous evening’s “necktie” parties that were reportedly part of Owensboro’s festivities. For centuries, executions were public entertainments. Now, even Americans who want capital punishment do not want to see it. It has become particularly grotesque because the punishment often is more than a decade distant from the crime. Hegseth’s announcement of Hasan’s execution-asmoral-tutorial approximately coincided with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s delivering in Athens a speech celebrating Western civilization. This civilization’s history of punishments is a horrifying yet encouraging story of “the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.” This language is from a 1958 Supreme Court opinion concerning the Eighth Amendment’s proscription of “cruel and unusual punishments.” Leave for another day the debate pitting originalists against others about how, if at all, this “evolving” should influence construing the amendment. But unquestionably standards of decency, and not just about punishment, do evolve. Regarding standards of all sorts, however, “evolving” is not a synonym for “improving.” Sometimes they regress. Rubio, speaking near the Acropolis, one of Western civilization’s ornaments, serves a president who sits where Lincoln sat. Put aside the question of whether the soldiers who will be in the Fort Hood firing squad anticipated such an assignment when they enlisted. But credit Hegseth with usefulness. His idea of live-streaming the infliction of death comes as the nation approaches midterm elections widely considered a referendum on the Republicans’ national administration. Hegseth has clarified what should be the preeminent issue: Fill the government with barbarians, you get barbaric government. Revulsion is not an argument. But regarding Hegseth and the administration he vividly exemplifies, it is a virtue. Email George Will at georgewill@washpost.com.

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Lawsuit: St. Francisville officer staged drowning

After spending the day together, listed the psychoactive drug tri- a homicide investigation. her family is suing him, the town of Family alleges While reinvestigating the case, St. Francisville, its police depart- Parsons dropped off Horton at a St. ﬂuoromethylphenylpiperazine, or and West Feliciana Sheriff Francisville hotel around 3:45 a.m. TFMPP, which produces stimulant- authorities found evidence on Parwoman’s death wasn’t ment Brian Spillman. The family alleges March 7, 2022, just before the end like effects similar to ecstasy but sons’ phone linking him to another properly investigated Parsons drugged and sexually and of his shift, according to the law- can also be used in drug-facilitated crime, Sam D’Aquilla, then-district

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For years, Debbie Hinze believed her daughter died after accidentally slipping, falling and drowning in the bathtub of a St. Francisville hotel. That was the explanation she received from St. Francisville police Officer Richard Parsons Jr., 39, who discovered her daughter in March 2022. The officer said he found Renee Horton in the tub and that she had a knot and blood on her head from the fall. Investigators with the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office gave her a similar account, she said. It was not until 2025, when Hinze’s son reviewed Horton’s autopsy and toxicology reports, that the family began questioning what they had been told. Now, as Parsons faces a manslaughter charge in Horton’s death,

physically assaulted Horton, resulting in her death, and that law enforcement failed to properly investigate. “We want justice for our daughter, and somebody’s got to bring this to light,” Hinze said. The suit, filed Oct. 6 in federal court, comes weeks after Parsons’ charge in connection with Horton’s death was upgraded from negligent homicide to manslaughter. Parsons is also facing a charge of malfeasance in office and a sexual battery charge related to a separate case. The former officer, who resigned from the Police Department in 2022, has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Spillman did not respond to a request for comment. St. Francisville Police Chief Chris Green said he was not familiar with the civil filing and that he did not work at the department at the time of Horton’s death or during the investigation that followed.

suit and criminal ﬁlings. He then returned to the hotel once he was off the clock, where, he said, he discovered Horton. The documents state Parsons told investigators he found Horton drowned in the bathtub. He called police, who quickly brought in the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Ofﬁce to handle the investigation. Investigators and Parsons himself told Horton’s family that her death was an accident, Hinze said. At the time, Hinze said, she accepted the explanation. “If you slip and fall in the bathtub, that certainly can knock you out or kill you, so we just had no reason to question anything at that point,” Hinze said. But Horton’s autopsy report, which law enforcement received within a week of her death, showed no head trauma, according to the complaint, contradicting Parsons’ account. Her toxicology report also

sexual assault, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that Parsons forced or coerced Horton to ingest TFMPP, before taking other actions that led to her death. The suit accuses the Sheriff’s Ofﬁce of failing to pursue and preserve evidence, including Parsons’ missing uniform shirt, a bloody towel found at the scene and surveillance footage from the hotel. It states Spillman later acknowledged that his ofﬁce “dropped the ball” in the investigation. Hinze said she received the autopsy report months after her daughter’s death but could not bring herself to read it. For years, she said, she continued to believe her daughter had died in an accident. In 2025, her son examined the report and saw the unusual drug, prompting the family to question if there was more to Horton’s death. They went back to Spillman, who subsequently reopened the case as

attorney for the 20th Judicial District, told The Advocate in September. Evidence from Parsons’ phone allegedly showed him performing a sexual act on a man who appeared to be unconscious. When the man was contacted by police, he told them he had not consented to the act, D’Aquilla said. Hinze said she and her husband, 69 and 71, respectively, now raise Horton’s children. “She’s got three beautiful kids that miss their mom every day,” Hinze said. The family’s attorneys described the civil case as a complementary effort at justice alongside the criminal case. “We intend to pursue justice for Renee and her children to the fullest extent of the law, in every forum available to us, so that no other family in West Feliciana Parish or anywhere else has to go through this again,” Jacob Longman, co-counsel for the family, said in a statement.

Death row inmate’s requests to reconsider sentence rejected

BY PATRICK SLOAN-TURNER Staff writer

A Baton Rouge man convicted of double murder saw his path to avoid the death penalty get narrower this week when a federal judge denied a request to reconsider his sentence and the governor said he would not consider giving him clemency. Todd Wessinger was convicted of killing two of his former restaurant co-workers in Baton Rouge in 1995. On Monday, Wessinger’s attorneys filed a request with the state Board of Pardons to recommend that the governor amend his sentence to life without parole and take him off death row.

But Gov. Jeff Landry said Tuesday that a life sentence would not be an option. “There will be no clemency for Todd Wessinger,” Landry wrote Tuesday afternoon on X. “We stand ﬁrmly with the victims and their families.” Also on Tuesday, Judge John deGravelles of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana denied Wessinger’s plea to halt his looming execution, rejecting an argument that Wessinger did not receive effective counsel in his original trial. He did so after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a previous ruling in Wessinger’s favor, saying that new evidence could not be considered in the case.

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abuse he suffered as a child, evidence that carried a reasonable probability of a life sentence,” Gibbens said in a statement. “No state court has ever afforded Mr. Wessinger a full and fair hearing on that claim, and his successor petition seeking that hearing remains pending.” Gibbens said Landry’s statement “does not take into account the person Mr. Wessinger has become over nearly three decades on death row, as documented in his clemency application.” Wessinger and his attorney are not arguing about whether he actually shot and killed Stephanie Guzzardo and David Breakwell, two of his former co-workers at a Calendar’s Restaurant that

was located on Perkins Road in Baton Rouge. Instead, their claims argue that the jury imposed a death sentence without all of the relevant facts. Separately, he also asked the federal court in September to stop the execution, arguing that the state’s method of execution using nitrogen hypoxia or midazolam and hydromorphone was cruel and unusual. Last week, after a U.S. appeals court denied Wessinger’s request for a rehearing, Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore said he planned to apply for a death warrant. That legal order would set the date, time and location for the state to execute Wessinger.

Architectural components are seen inside Madame John’s Legacy, an 18th-century building in New Orleans’ French Quarter, on Aug. 10.

Continued from page 1B seeing that pile of sawdust and seeing everything cut up,” said Abramson. “I was in total shock.” Though the value and age of the cut materials are in dispute, Abramson and Kelly fear museum staff discarded valuable historic material. Becky Mackie, director of Louisiana State Museums, argues that her staff has done nothing of the sort. In interviews and several written statements, she denied accusations that her staff improperly removed or threw away material from Madame John’s Legacy, saying that they followed recommendations from the state’s preservation ofﬁce. “Nothing was thrown away,” Mackie said. “Items that were removed from the MJL building on Dumaine Street were relocated to our collections storage facility at 1000 Chartres.” The dispute is the latest involving renovations at Madame John’s Legacy, which have faced criticism from local preservationists for years. They are also a new point of controversy for Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser’s Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, which oversees Louisiana State Museums. The agency recently came under ﬁre over allegations that it misused an apartment in the French Quarter set aside for museum purposes. Nungesser referred a reporter to Mackie for questions about Madame John’s Legacy. Abramson sent Nungesser a letter in August complaining about the damage to Madame John’s, but not all museum board members appear worried anything is awry. Board member Darryl Gissel defended Mackie, saying she has followed expert guidance and is making progress toward reopening Madam John’s. “The woman has done herculean work there,” Gissel said. “I can’t praise her enough for what she’s done.” Meanwhile, Ann Masson,

Wessinger’s attorneys recently requested a new penalty phase for his case in state court. His attorneys said a 2014 brain scan, conducted nearly two decades after a jury gave him a death sentence, shows he had a stroke as a child that affected the part of his brain that impacts decision-making and impulse control. Christie Gibbens, a federal public defender on Wessinger’s case, said his legal team will keep seeking legal remedies. “Two federal judges have found that Todd Wessinger’s death sentence is unconstitutional because his jury never heard evidence of his brain damage and the

a longtime French Quarter preservationist and former architecture history professor at Tulane University, said that preservationists are “discouraged” and “don’t know where to turn.” “We’ve been shut out for so long,” said Masson. “No one knows what’s going on.”

State responds Mackie said criticism of her staff is coming from people who are trying to “control the narrative” about Madame John’s Legacy and who are “not professional architects, historians, or archaeologists.” Experts who have visited the building since Aug. 10 have not expressed concerns, Mackie said, though she declined to name those visitors. Nicole Hobson-Morris, director of the state’s Division of Historic Preservation, did not return inquiries asking her to verify whether museum staff followed her ofﬁce’s guidelines. Perrin Ehlinger, an architect who recently worked on repairs to the building, reviewed the Aug. 10 photos of the cut materials and said it appeared that museum staff had only cut rotted wood that could not be reused, and components of a staircase that dated to the 1970s. “There’s no real reason to save any of this,” he said. Abramson and Kelly say they had been in talks with state ofﬁcials about storing the architectural components in warehouses owned by Kelly and were blindsided by their destruction and removal. A French-Creole building complex, Madame John’s Legacy is one of the oldest buildings in the French

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Continued from page 1B out-of-state providers accused of violating Louisiana’s abortion ban. Planned Parenthood’s Louisiana clinics have never provided abortions. “We won’t provide any abortion in the state of Louisiana because of the ban,” Wales said. “One thing we can do is answer questions honestly when patients ask what it looks like to travel for care.” Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, out-of-state patients have accounted for 75% of abortions performed in Kansas, the highest share in the nation, Wales said. Erica Bayles Inzina, policy director of Louisiana Right to Life, cited four Kansas abortion centers operated by Planned Parenthood Great Plains as a reason Louisiana taxpayer dollars should not subsidize the group’s activities. “New Orleans does not need Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood’s nonabortion services are already being provided by other existing healthcare providers, many of whom provide broader services as well,” Inzina said in a Wednesday statement. However, Dr. Jennifer Avegno, deputy mayor of New Orleans Health and Human Services, called the expansion “a huge win.” “In a state where maternal mortality leads the nation, we need more comprehensive, high-quality care that is accessible to all,” she said in a statement.

In 2023, preservationists The commission reguaccused the state of failing lates construction work in to adequately oversee Eh- the French Quarter and has linger’s repairs to the build- long been at odds with the ing. They said those repairs state over Madame John’s, did not follow expert advice. but Block said that “VCC will In 2023, the state agreed to provide nonbinding recomcommission an expert re- mendations only for the onport on the building before going work, as needed, and making major changes look forward to a productive there. That report has not advisory role with the State yet been completed. and LSM when requested.” More recently, the presOther preservationists and PROVIDED PHOTO ervationists clashed with neighborhood groups exKelly and Abramson, ques- pressed concerns. Vieux Carre Property Owntioning their proposal to Quarter. The Louisiana turn Madame John’s into a ers Association Executive Director Erin Holmes said she State Museums website de- culinary museum. “cannot fathom why anyone scribes it as “one of the best would think it is appropriate examples of French colonial Local response architecture in North AmerAs Abramson and Kelly to just dispose of these macome forward with new alle- terials,” adding that she was ica.” It was donated to the state gations about the state’s han- “horrified” by the photos. Sandra Stokes, chair of in 1947 and spent stints as dling of the building, some a sea captain’s residence, a local preservationists are advocacy for the Louisiana Landmarks Society, said she tenement house and an artist hesitating to weigh in. colony. Movies such as “In“The building known as Ma- wanted more information terview with the Vampire” dame John’s Legacy is owned about what happened before and “12 Years a Slave” also by the State of Louisiana and drawing conclusions about were filmed there. is, therefore, outside of the ju- the nature of the damage. Abramson and Kelly run risdiction of the VCC,” Bryan Friends of Madame John’s Block, executive director of Email Meghan Friedmann Legacy, a group that has a the Vieux Carre Commission, at meghan.friedmann@ cooperative endeavor agree- said in a statement. theadvocate.com. ment with the state to raise money for repairs to the building and support programming there. In the spring, the state Legislature allocated $900,000 to the nonprofit. The group wants to use that money to get the building reopened, but Abramson said These guys helped so much!! she no longer feels comfortHelped me navigate my able moving forward with unfortunate situation with Louisiana State Museums’ such ease. A BIG thank you... involvement after what ocA huge blessing. curred on Aug. 10. - Catherine Meanwhile, Louisiana State Museums has re“ ceived its own allocation of $325,000 for repairs to the building. Abramson and Kelly say Our Tax Professionals will get you on the they had been in talks with state officials about storing phone with the IRS in minutes for FREE. the architectural compoWe will help negotiate the best solution for your tax nents in warehouses owned challenge. At PRIORITY TAX, WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK! by Kelly. The rift between the nonprofit and museum officials CALL NOW FOR FREE CONSULTATION! could further complicate plans for the building, which has been closed for restoration efforts for at least nine years. Those efforts were already controversial, though prior criticism of the Priority Tax is a private company that identifies qualified consumers who require tax assistance. They are not the IRS, nor a state’s handling of the buildState Taxing Authority. They are not a debt relief company or attorney referral service. Costs and results will vary. RESULTS ARE NOT GUARANTEED. Hiring a tax resolution company is an important decision and should not be based solely on ing came mainly from local advertisements. There is no charge for a consultation. Call for complete details. preservation groups.

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Depths of Disappointment

Gayle Benson isn’t like Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Jones is quick to praise or criticize his team every time he sees a microphone. Benson rarely does either of those (especially the latter) when it comes to her New Orleans Saints or New Orleans Pelicans. But every now and then, she will. Especially when she hears the frustration of the fanbase, which she certainly has over the 10 days. That was quite clear Tuesday afternoon when she spoke at the Greater New Orleans Quarterback Rod Club luncheon held at The Walker Cannery in mid-city. She didn’t just get up to the podium and wing it. She read a prepared speech like she always does, an indication that every word spoken was well thought out with intention. She didn’t sugarcoat anything when talking about the Saints, off to a 1-4 start that has the entire fanbase frustrated. “I will not make excuses, and I will not accept this level of performance as our standard,” she said. One thing I’ve learned about Benson is she doesn’t like her team being embarrassed or the butt of jokes. That’s what the Saints were Oct. 5 when they got drilled by the Atlanta Falcons 45-24 on national television on a night that was supposed to be all about New Orleans. There was more humiliation six days later. Looking into the lower bowl of the Caesars Superdome and seeing that sea of purple-clad Vikings fans taking over the building most certainly didn’t sit well with her, either. The last time Benson criticized one of her teams was last November in an exclusive interview with The Times-Picayune. Both her Saints and Pelicans were off to historically bad starts. The Saints were 2-8 at the time. The Pelicans were just as bad at 2-9. “I am obviously not happy,” Benson said that day in November. “I am disappointed, and I would expect our fans to also be disappointed. What we established over the last two decades with the Saints was a winning organization with the expectation to compete for championships every year. That is our goal, and that has not changed. That is what I expect, and it is what our fans expect.” Two days after that interview, the Pelicans ﬁred head coach Willie Green. Saints head coach Kellen Moore was in his ﬁrst

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Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kyler Murray eludes Saints defensive ends Chase Young and Carl Granderson during their game Sunday at the Caesars Superdome. The Saints lost 23-13, dropping to 1-4 on the season.

These five areas are why Saints are off to ‘unacceptable’ start BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer The pressure is on now. By delivering an eight-minute speech on the New Orleans Saints’ “unacceptable” 1-4 start, owner Gayle Benson immediately sent a message to coach Kellen Moore and strongly suggested he could be on the hot seat if he doesn’t turn the season around. How did we get here? Based on her speech, Benson reached her tipping point after the Saints got embarrassed in prime time by the Atlanta Falcons on a day that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Domecoming. A week later, another bad loss made clear that the Saints weren’t upholding the high standards once set by Drew Brees and Sean Payton. But to get to this 1-4 record, the Saints have had five clear disappointments through the first five games:

Investments not paying off The Saints’ early returns on the resources they poured into the run game haven’t been promising. New Orleans hasn’t seen the turnaround it envisioned when it signed running back Travis Etienne (four years, $48 million) and guard David Edwards (four years, $61 million) to big-time deals.

Etienne hurt his hamstring and landed on injured reserve. Before his Week 3 injury, the running back averaged a respectable 4.3 yards per carry, but New Orleans struggled to run the ball in two of those three contests. Although Pro Football Focus grades can be highly subjective, Edwards has the lowest run-blocking grade in his eight-year career. The issues in New Orleans’ run game go far beyond those two. But other tweaks, such as emphasizing more outside zone runs, haven’t yielded results. Run-game coordinator T.J. Paganetti said in training camp that he felt the Saints were “very, very good” at outside zone plays, only for the Saints to average 3.3 yards per carry on such plays, according to FTN Fantasy.

Repeated problems This is arguably the biggest issue across Moore’s two seasons with the Saints. The same problems keep happening, from dreadful ﬁrstquarter starts to an inability to run the ball. The Saints have yet to have a 100-yard rusher in a game under Moore. And they’ve been outscored by a league-worst 121 points in the ﬁrst

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Mothershed ﬂows with ‘concerned’ SEC’s number mber, position transition Sankey relationship with LSU damaged SEC MEDIA DAYS

Junioor transfer a revelation at tight end for Tigers

BY JON BLAU Staff writerr

One niight in September, the newest member of the LSU tight end room, Roman Motthershed, was going over plays with offe ensive analyst Heath Dedeaux. Dedeaux, a former Ole ä Mississsippi Miss tight end, randomState at LSU ly asked Mothershed a 11 AM. SATU URDAY, question. “He had asked me how ESPN I felt about my number and stuff,” recalled Mothersh hed, a 6-foot-5, 212-pound receiver from Troy T who initially wore a No. 82 LSU jerssey. There would be symbolism and foreshadowin ng in what happened next. Mothe ershed arrived in the locker

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BY TOYLOY BROWN III Staff writer

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said Wednesday he was “concerned” that the league’s legal battle with LSU could damage the conference’s relationship with one of its founding members. Sankey addressed reporters a day after the SEC submitted a filing in federal court asking that its lawsuit against LSU officials not be dismissed because Tigers coach Will Wade still could add ex-pro RJ Luis to his roster. Sankey didn’t provide any more details when asked, saying: “We’ll let our filings speak for themselves on these issues.” Sankey was transparent about his worry that these legal proceedings could damage the SEC’s relationship with LSU. “Certainly concerned, and we’ve had disagreements among our membership over time,” Sankey said. “So this is Year 12 for me. I know that there’s also a com-

mitment to the league and a commitment to its members. But we have to work through some of these difﬁculties.” Wade, who couldn’t travel for his slotted appearance at SEC media Sankey days on Tuesday because of weather, answered questions virtually, revealing he doesn’t have Luis — the former St. John’s star who signed an NBA contract — on his team. “We’re going to follow all the SEC protocols with him,” Wade said Tuesday. “I think it’s been pretty clear what the SEC protocols are on all that. He didn’t travel with us to McNeese (for an exhibition), and he hasn’t been rostered.” When Sankey was asked whether he’s had any conversations with Wade on the construction of his roster of multiple ﬁfthyear transfers and international commit-

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LSU doesn’t have much in reserve Mulkey says depth not same as last season

BY REED DARCEY

Staff writer

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Ask coach Kim Mulkey, and she’ll tell you that depth is a luxury. She’d love to have it, but she really doesn’t need it. Not since she usually whittles her rotation down to seven or eight players anyway. The LSU women’s basketball team had that luxury last season. The Tigers led the nation in bench points all season, and by the end of Southeastern Conference play, Mulkey was giving nine of the 12 players on her roster more than 10 minutes per game. Three of them were freshmen. Is that the kind of roster that LSU will have moving forward? Mulkey doesn’t seem to think so. “We don’t have the depth this year,” she said before the Tigers opened preseason practice Sept. 21. It’s a reality that Mulkey acknowledged again on Tuesday, when she fielded questions from reporters via Zoom in lieu of her appearance at SEC media days. LSU’s traveling party couldn’t ﬂy to Birmingham because there was too much fog above the Baton Rouge area. So Mulkey had to talk about her 11-player team from home. She’s never had a smaller roster in her LSU tenure than she does this season, which the Tigers will begin Nov. 2 against Southeastern Louisiana with only 10 active players. They had 12 at the start of the academic year. But Ukrainian center Kate Koval decided to leave the team after the Tigers signed a Russian player named Anna Minaeva, and Spanish forward Noa Morro underwent surgery to address a stress fracture in her shin. She won’t return to the ﬂoor until at least late November. Their absences will force Mulkey

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LSU wing Lola Lampley takes a foul shot during the first practice of the season on Sept. 21 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The true freshman has a chance at some crucial playing time this season because the Tigers are a bit short on depth. to rely on two freshmen in the frontcourt: Minaeva and Lola Lampley. Minaeva is a crafty 6-foot-5 center with professional experience. LSU thinks she can one day develop into a WNBA draft pick, but she’s only 17 years old and won’t turn 18 until January. Lampley, a 6-2 wing, was recruited as a perimeter player, but she’ll begin her career in the frontcourt out of necessity — just like sophomore ZaKiyah Johnson did last season. “They’re gonna be thrown to the

wolves,” Mulkey said. “They’re gonna be out there, and they’re gonna have great moments, and they’re gonna have not-so-great moments. “They have to play because of depth. With the portal and NIL, it’s really hard now to have 15 players on the team. It’s hard to have depth now because of money issues.” That issue affects all programs in all sports. LSU football coach Lane Kifﬁn likes to talk about how the transfer portal has made it harder for teams to build depth, and LSU

men’s basketball coach Will Wade has said that he planned to spend the bulk of his roster budget on seven or eight players. Still, no SEC basketball team on the women’s side will have a smaller roster this season than LSU. Even if Koval hadn’t left, Mulkey would be one of just four league coaches with only 12 players. The rest of the conference has rosters of either 13, 14 or 15 potential contributors — the maximum number allowed on a team under NCAA rules. The ﬁve-player LSU core is one of the most talented in the country. Mulkey and her staff know what they’ll get from their star senior guards — Mikaylah Williams, MiLaysia Fulwiley and Jada Williams — as well as their pair of returning sophomores, Johnson and Grace Knox. They’re less sure about what the rest of the rotation will look like once SEC play begins in January. What are the right roles for transfer guards Laila Reynolds (Florida) and Chloe Larry (Tennessee Tech)? Where does Morro fit in? How much can Lampley and Minaeva contribute as freshmen? Reynolds is the only one of those role players who has played in the SEC. The rest are new to the league, which means Mulkey expects them to battle some ups and downs as LSU pieces together as much depth as it can. Lampley or Minaeva will have to chip in some meaningful minutes at some point, whether they’re ready to do so or not. “I’m excited about both of them,” Mulkey said, “but I am also of the belief that they are going to have sad moments. And it’s our job to make them understand, you’re OK, you’re out here playing against older players, and this is how you get better.” Email Reed Darcey at reed. darcey@theadvocate.com. For more LSU sports updates, sign up for our newsletter at theadvocate.com/lsunewsletter

Astros choose not to renew manager Espada’s contract

HOUSTON — The Houston Astros have parted ways with manager Joe Espada after deciding not to renew his expiring contract. The team announced the decision Wednesday while also moving on from several members of his coaching staff. His contract is set to expire at the end of this month. The move comes after the Astros overcame a plethora of injuries to win the AL West with an 81-81 record and become the ﬁrst team in Major League Baseball history to reach the postseason without a winning record. They were then swept by the Chicago White Sox in two games at home in a Wild Card Playoff series. The Astros will now be searching for a new manager and general manager after former GM Dana Brown was ﬁred in August.

Phillies give manager Mattingly a 2-year deal

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Phillies are keeping Don Mattingly as manager, removing his interim tag and giving him a twoyear deal even after a late-season collapse nearly cost the team a playoff spot. Team president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski announced the move Wednesday. Mattingly led the team to a 79-55 record and a spot in the postseason after he replaced the ﬁred Rob Thomson in late April. The Phillies nearly blew a four-game lead for a wild card in the ﬁnal week of the regular season, then lost in three games to the Atlanta Braves in the NL Wild Card Series. The 65-year-old Mattingly was hired last offseason to serve as a bench coach and had another year left on his contract.

Falcons QB Penix returns to practice, expected to start

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Quarterback Michael Penix returned to practice Wednesday and is on track to start for the Atlanta Falcons Sunday against the Chicago Bears after leaving last week’s loss to Baltimore with a rib injury. Coach Kevin Stefanski said Penix will start against the Bears “as long as everything goes according to plan.” Penix showed no sign of the injury in the portion of practice open to reporters as he moved and threw passes. Penix led the Falcons (2-3) to two straight wins before Sunday night’s 30-23 overtime loss to the Ravens. He was held out in the overtime period after suffering the injury in the fourth quarter.

Reese takes center stage with Dream in Finals Ravens QB Jackson absent ä Dream at Valkyries.

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Angel Reese is the biggest star left on the WNBA’s brightest stage as she gets her first chance at winning a pro championship. It’s been a tumultuous journey but coming to Atlanta this season has been the perfect move for the three-time All-Star, whose accomplishments this year have quieted many of her critics. Leading the Dream to the franchise’s first title would silence the rest of them. That quest begins Saturday when the best-of-seven series against the Golden State Valkyries opens in California. Reese is the first player from the heralded 2024 draft class that saw Caitlin Clark go No. 1 to reach the finals as a starter. The 6-foot-3 Reese went seventh in that draft to the Chicago Sky and has used that to fuel her to become one of the top players in the league — winning the WNBA Defensive Player of the Year award this season. “I think it was important for me to go through what I went through,” Reese said of falling to seventh in the draft. “Being able to build character, going through adversity drove character and I was able to learn from a lot of things, being able to continue to be great, but also learning to know that I can be better.” Her first two seasons ended early, not just by missing the playoffs, but also because of injuries. She had wrist surgery at the end of her rookie year and had a back issue last year. Despite leading the WNBA in rebounding each of her first three seasons, averaging a double-double every year, critics questioned her offensive efficiency. Online keyboard warriors came up with the phrase “mebounds” to call attention to Reese grabbing her own misses. Reese, who

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Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese, right, and DeWanna Bonner, back, ask for a review during Game 3 of the WNBA semifinals against the New York Liberty on Oct. 9 in New York. has her own custom Barbie doll, turned that into a positive. She created a business initiative and donated some of the proceeds to her foundation to combat cyber bullying. “One thing that always set Angel apart as a rookie was her tenacity, her desire,” NBC analyst Cheryl Miller said. “I think she’s one of those players who feels like the more you tell her who she’s not and try to set limits, she’s going to break those feelings every time.” Reese has already matched Breanna Stewart and A’ja Wilson. Those WNBA icons also reached the ﬁnals in their third season in the league. Reese will try to follow Stewart and win the title in her ﬁrst try.

dover said the night his team lost to Clark and the Indiana Fever in the playoffs last season that he decided he needed to acquire Reese. She was the missing piece that the franchise needed to get back to the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2013. So he did just that, trading for Reese. Reese said that coach Karl Smesko still played those clips from when they lost in the first round. She didn’t make the postseason in her two years in Chicago. She just wanted to get a chance to play in the playoffs, and after helping Atlanta knock off Washington and New York, she has the Dream in the championship round. “I think the expectations for me have risen beyond what I expectReese the missing piece ed,” she said. “Obviously I didn’t Reese didn’t make the playoffs know we were going to be going in her first two years in the league to the finals, but obviously now when she played with Chicago. the expectation is being in the fiAtlanta general manager Dan Pa- nals every single year. Being here

with the Dream, it just makes it a lot of fun. They pour into you, the organization is great, so I really love it.” Reese has drawn high praise from Golden State coach Natalie Nakase, who worked with her at the World Cup. “Yeah, she’s an ultimate, ultra competitor,” Nakase said. “To me, when we were at USA, you heard her voice constantly. So when she didn’t start, you heard her. She was constantly cheering her teammates on when they needed to. She constantly called them out when we needed energy.” Nakase said Reese’s competitive edge is a huge reason Atlanta is in the ﬁnals, and she knows Reese “is not going to let any possession slip.”

Winning titles is not new Reese is no stranger to winning championships. She helped LSU win the NCAA title her junior year, beating Clark and Iowa in the title game that had over 18 million people watch on television. She also was on the U.S. national team that won a fifth straight World Cup last month. “All of them are just like win or go home situations for me,” Reese said of her college experience. “That’s kind of the mindset how it’s always been. Every game I’m treating it like it’s win or go home, and making sure I put my body out there every single night and give it my all, every little detail. “We always talk about the value of one, that’s Karl’s big emphasis. The value of one — one rebound, one box out, one shot, one free throw, making sure I am perfecting and doing everything right. That’s kind of been the mindset for me.”

from practice with injury

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Lamar Jackson was absent again at practice Wednesday, as the Baltimore star deals with an ankle injury that has already caused him to miss one game. Jackson was injured two weekends ago in a victory over Tennessee. The Ravens were able to win at Atlanta on Sunday night with Tyler Huntley at quarterback. They play at Cleveland on Sunday. Baltimore (4-1) has some margin for error after a solid start. That’s in contrast to last season, when Jackson was hurt early on and didn’t come back until the team was 2-5. He rarely looked great after that, so there’s some risk in bringing him back too soon. Huntley has won all three of his starts for the Ravens since the beginning of last season.

Medvedev beats Tsitsipas at Shanghai Masters

SHANGHAI — Daniil Medvedev is back in the Shanghai Masters quarterfinals after getting the better of Stefanos Tsitsipas in the latest chapter of their combustible longtime rivalry. There was no real drama this time, though, as the fifth-seeded Medvedev won 6-4, 7-5 to become only the fourth player — after Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray — to reach the last eight of the tournament in three straight years. There have been verbal flareups in previous meetings between Medvedev and Tsitsipas down the years, including in the Australian Open semifinals in 2022. Earlier, Rafael Jodar won after being a set down for third straight match and also reached the quarterfinals.

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With Tulane trailing 10-3 in the third quarter of its season opener, edge rusher Warren Roberts chased down Duke running back Nate Sheppard and caused a fumble that linebacker Dickson Agu recovered. “I saw him (Sheppard) break a tackle, and I have a high motor,” Roberts said. “He didn’t see me. I came from behind and punched it out over the top. I really wasn’t thinking it would be a fumble, but my instincts got the ball out.” The play is memorable not because it set the tone for a secondhalf comeback as the Green Wave lost 17-3. It is notable because, almost inexplicably, Tulane has not forced another turnover since then. Opponents have taken 297 snaps since that strip without coughing up the ball or throwing an interception. For the first time in at least 20 seasons the Wave has gone four consecutive games without a takeaway. A year after tying for the American Conference lead with 15 interceptions, Tulane has faced 124 passes and picked off zero passes. This despite returning two starting defensive backs in Jack Tchienchou and E’Zaiah Shine, and a third, safety Kevin Adams, who played enough to finish fourth on the team in tackles. The Wave’s lone takeaway is tied for last in the FBS with Army. “It is definitely out of character for us,” said Tchienchou, whose interception in the end zone was one of five Tulane takeaways when it beat North Texas in December during the American Conference championship game. “We’re known for causing trouble and creating turnovers. For sure turn-

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Tulane safety Jack Tchienchou breaks up a pass intended for East Carolina tight end Desirrio Riles during the first half of a game on Oct. 9, 2025, at Yulman Stadium. overs change the game. We’re trying to get back on track.” It is hard to envision Tulane (2-3, 0-1 American) upsetting Memphis (4-1, 2-0) on Friday night at Yulman Stadium if that streak continues. The Tigers are too explosive, and the Wave has been far too inconsistent offensively to keep pace without flipping the field. Coach Will Hall believes the issue goes hand-in-hand with Tulane’s inability to start fast and dictate play. The Wave has led for 56 minutes, 15 seconds out of 300 minutes through five games and

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Continued from page 1C room the next day to find a No. 14 jersey, which was owned by Trey’Dez Green before he earned LSU’s coveted No. 7, hanging in his locker. “It was a surprise for me,” said Mothershed, who became the Tigers’ next-best option for a matchup problem at tight end when Green was sidelined by a knee injury at Ole Miss. At Kentucky, LSU would call Mothershed’s new number. He had two catches for 56 yards last weekend, which was 2 yards shy of Mothershed’s career high at Troy. He had a 41-yard touchdown catch, giving him scores in back-to-back games. Mothershed had just one touchdown catch last season at Troy. LSU had to find alternatives at tight end with Green, who had 222 yards receiving in three games, sidelined and Lane Kiffin’s effort to add former Ole Miss tight end Dae’quan Wright thwarted by SEC rules. Mothershed has been a muchneeded revelation. “I was prepared to do whatever it took to get on the field to be able to make an impact to help the team,” Mothershed said of switching to tight end. “When (tight ends) coach (Joe) Cox came to me and introduced the idea to me, I was with it.” There was no refusal from an oversized wideout with 327 yards over two campaigns in the Sun Belt Conference. Mothershed was going to make the most of his SEC opportunity, even if it meant doing something slightly uncomfortable. Lining up in a three-point stance? It was more than unfamiliar to Mothershed. “It’s probably the first time I’ve put my hand in the dirt,” he said. What Mothershed had going for him was athleticism. He’s a baby version of the 6-7, 237-pound Green, because Mothershed was also a basketball and football athlete at Pike Road High School in Alabama. He’s similar in personality, too. “I talk about Trey’Dez, how he’s always smiling and bringing great juice,” LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt said. “Roman’s

fourth quarter of the home opener, and Joshua Moore returned the fumble 32 yards for a touchdown, but the play was ruled dead on replay review because Davenport had started to slide. The only official fumble since the Duke game came when South Alabama muffed a kickoff that rolled out of bounds. “We’ve been practicing punching the ball out and stuff like that,” linebacker Makai Williams said. “You just chop wood and keep doing your job. One of these days it’s going to come. I can’t tell you when. I can’t

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LSU tight end Roman Mothershed dunks a basketball on the sideline after scoring against McNeese on Oct. 3 at Tiger Stadium.

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never by more than seven points, so opponents have not gone into desperation mode. All five opponents have run more times than they have thrown against Tulane. “When you get a lead, the other team has to play differently,” Hall said. “We’ve (mostly) not had a lead until late in the fourth quarter this year, so when you’re not playing with a lead, the other team can be more conservative.” The Wave was unlucky once. Agu stripped South Alabama quarterback Bishop Davenport in the

tell you how. You just keep working, and there’s going to be a moment when it pops out. When it does, you’ve got to be prepared.” Forcing turnovers also would get the defense off the ﬁeld faster. The combination of Tulane’s third-down defensive woes — it ranks 134th out of 138 FBS in third-down stops — and its inability to get takeaways have led to an average possession time of 34:34 for opponents. “You’re trying to get off the ﬁeld as quickly as possible,” Roberts said. “Three-and-outs and turnovers are a very big emphasis. We have to get the ball back in our offense’s hands.” Defensive coordinator Tayler Polk emphasizes takeaways but added there was a danger in going too far. “If you overdo it, then fundamentals of tackling and the fundamentals of guarding people go out the window,” he said. “We’re trying to focus on the our fundamentals, and when (turnover) opportunities present themselves, guys have to make plays.” Hall said starting defensive tackle Ed Smith, who missed the Army game with an unspecified injury, should be available Friday. He participated in Wednesday’s walkthrough at the indoor practice facility. With nose tackle Kam Hamilton almost certainly out due to a foot injury, Smith’s return would be a boost. His 14 tackles are second to Hamilton’s 17 among Tulane defensive linemen. Hall added that he expects running back Maurice Turner, who sat out against Army with a hamstring injury, to also play.

another one of those guys. Just constantly is ready to go, and he has this look in his eyes when he gets into the game that makes you want to throw him the ball, because you got nothing but faith in him.” Luckily for the Tigers, both No. 7 and No. 14 are on the sideline. Green has been grabbing Mothershed as he comes off the ﬁeld, letting him know what he can do better on each play. “He’s like eyes off the field,” Mothershed said. “The things that I’m being exposed to now, like the looks I’m getting, I see linebackers in the box move different ways, he’s been able to be able to calm my eyes down. “What I’m seeing, I see slower so I’m being able to do my job quicker.” He may never be a plus run blocker at 212 pounds, but Mothershed provides a true receiving option at tight end. On LSU’s opening drive at Kentucky, he lined up in the slot, in a two-point stance and turned a 6-yard curl route into a 15-yard gain. In the fourth quarter, Mothershed was in a three-point stance at the snap, coming off the line at half-speed as LSU receiver Jackson Harris caught a quick toss to the sideline. Mothershed then accelerated past Kentucky linebacker Grant Godfrey, hauling in Harris’ trick pass for a 41-yard touchdown. That receiver pass play was installed the Tuesday before the Kentucky game, and it was repped at the end of each practice during the week. Harris let Mothershed know, if he had him one-on-one in the game, he was letting it rip. “He threw the mess out of that ball,” Mothershed said. A non-quarterback threw a perfect spiral to a tight end who hadn’t lined up in a three-point stance until this season. Until the Tigers get their No. 7 back on the ﬁeld, throwing to No. 14 isn’t a bad alternative. Mothershed, who last season was playing in front of 30,000 fans at Troy’s stadium, appreciates the opportunity to play in front of 102,000-plus at Tiger Stadium. “I’ve never felt nothing like that ever in my life,” Mothershed said. “Really being in Death Valley, that atmosphere is completely different.”

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Trailing 17-10 at halftime against South Carolina, Florida coach Jon Sumrall felt an unsettling vibe in the locker room. “You would have thought somebody’s dog died,” Sumrall recalled. “It’s like, ‘Man, we lost.’ ” It gave Sumrall a glimpse of what’s been happening in Gainesville for years: The Gators simply haven’t handled adversity well. One defensive breakdown tends to devolve into a deluge of mistakes. One offensive miscue typically leads to more issues, eventually becoming too much to overcome. One loss turns into two — or three or four. It’s a trend that Sumrall inherited and one he hopes to end when Florida (4-2, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) plays at No. 7 Texas (4-1, 1-1) on Saturday. “In this league, in the NFL, the higher levels you go in football, one-possession football games, that’s where you live a lot of times,” Sumrall said. “It’s always going to be nip and tuck and tight games, and you have to ﬁght until the ﬁnish, and it doesn’t matter if you’re up or down.”

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Continued from page 1C ments, he said: “I keep conversations to myself most frequently.” He didn’t provide much detail on what he wants LSU to do to improve its standing in the conference. “Well, I’d like to not be in court,” he said. “But as I said, those legal filings speak for themselves.” The SEC’s Tuesday filing said LSU had not submitted a “declaration, sworn or otherwise” saying it will comply with the SEC’s professionalism rules and not obstruct a vote to potentially expel LSU from the conference. “Defendants are trying to have it both ways,” the SEC attorneys wrote. “They ask the Court to find that no live dispute exists, while keeping the door wide open for LSU to continue defying the Professionalism Rules and violating principles of institutional control without risking the termination of its Conference membership.” The SEC originally filed its lawsuit in early September with a federal court in Alabama, which said the conference would hold a vote on Sept. 10 to decide whether to expel LSU. That vote didn’t happen after LSU football coach

The Gators responded repeatedly in wins against Auburn and Ole Miss last month, answering every score the Tigers and Rebels put on the board with points of their own. But Florida never trailed in either game. The last two outings, losses to Missouri and South Carolina, were different. The Gators trailed at halftime in both games and really struggled at the end of the second quarter and early in the third, getting outscored 27-0 over those spans. “We’ve been through it, and we don’t want to go through that again,” linebacker Myles Graham said. “It’s very hard not to get down on yourself and be like, ‘Oh, here we go again.’ It’s hard, but you have to be countercultural and just respond.” Several problems have contributed to Florida’s freefall. The Gators are getting handled on both lines of scrimmage, leading to few running lanes for Jadan Baugh and not enough pressure on opposing quarterbacks. Cornerbacks Ben Hanks and Cormani McClain mostly have struggled in coverage, and the offense hasn’t been at full strength at receiver since the season opener,

with Vernell Brown (knee) and Eric Singleton (ankle) missing two games each. “We’ve gotten out of whack,” offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner said. “We got to find a way to get that back, and that starts with me, our staff, getting our guys going.” The Gators were the talk of the SEC after beating then-No. 4 Ole Miss three weeks ago. They were scoring at will — averaging 53.5 points a game — and had started to promote Baugh as a Heisman Trophy candidate. But Florida’s swift rise was followed by an even faster drop. The Gators got outscored 83-36 combined in consecutive losses and looked out of sorts on both sides of the ball, reminiscent of Florida’s previous regime. Can Sumrall get the Gators off their roller-coaster ride? “There is something to that,” he said. “There is a belief, a confidence, an intestinal fortitude of like, ‘I’m going to fight ’til the finish. Don’t even care about what the scoreboard says,’ ” Sumrall said. “We’ll get there, but it’s been problematic, and it’s been something I’ve recognized.”

Lane Kiffin decided not to add a pair of players who previously signed with NFL teams to his roster. The league established penalties for programs if they added an athlete who previously signed a pro contract with an NFL, NBA or WNBA franchise, including a fine equal to 50% of a team’s budget and a half-season suspension for its coach. Three weeks ago, Louisiana attorney general Liz Murrill filed a motion to dismiss the SEC’s lawsuit against herself and multiple LSU officials — including president Wade Rousse, athletic director Verge Ausberry, the board of supervisors and Kiffin — because those football players weren’t added by LSU and the issue was “moot.” The SEC lawyers’ filing asking not to dismiss the lawsuit said LSU “openly recruited former NBA player RJ Luis Jr., has allowed him to practice with LSU’s men’s basketball team, and has refused to publicly and definitively state that he will not

be included on LSU’s basketball roster, which is not due for several more weeks.” The ﬁling also quoted Wade, who previously said he would be “unapologetic” about a rosterbuilding strategy that includes, according to Tuesday’s filing, “international professional basketball players whose eligibility remains in question.” On Sept. 23, Wade spoke to reporters for the ﬁrst time since being reintroduced as the Tigers coach in March. In the media availability, he didn’t directly name Luis but referred to him when explaining that his program will “abide by what the SEC tells us.” Wade also explained why he wasn’t being detailed when asked about Luis’ eligibility status. “Outside of one, because the SEC, you know, they hold everybody’s words against them,” Wade said. “So I want to be careful about not doing anything with that. But outside of that one, I think everybody knows who I’m talking about.”

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Sacred Heart’s Reese Provosty and Caroline Balart, left, try to block a shot by Newman’s Louise Mann, bottom right, as Anna Donald looks on during their match Wednesday.

Sacred Heart edges Newman in five sets Libero LeBlanc’s only kill comes on match clincher

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Sacred Heart libero Maddie LeBlanc was ready when she got the chance to deliver the winning point in the ﬁnal set of Wednesday’s rivalry match against Newman. Normally a defensive presence as the libero, LeBlanc contributed on offense when it mattered most, delivering a kill that landed in between multiple Newman players for a 1512 victory in the deciding ﬁfth set. Sacred Heart prevailed in a back-and-forth match against the reigning Division IV state champion Greenies that ended with the Cardinals winning 23-25, 25-14, 2325, 25-22, 15-12 at their home gym in front of a packed crowd. “One of the main things is just playing within the moment,” Sacred Heart coach Jay Jay Juan said. “Just staying focused, making sure we got one point at a time. Our defense was a big key at the

end. The ball was out of system (on the last point), and we just took advantage of it.” Sacred Heart’s final point was the only kill for LeBlanc on the night. The junior libero finished with 39 digs along with four assists and an ace. “I’m really proud of how we fought throughout (the match),” LeBlanc said. “(The last kill) was shocking for sure. I was a little scared, but I was proud of myself.” Newman led 11-10 in the fifth set until Sacred Heart scored five consecutive points to win. The Cardinals forced a fifth set after a tight fourth set that also ended with them scoring five points in a row. Eleanore Lowe led the attack on offense for Sacred Heart. The junior finished with a team-high 17 kills for the Cardinals. Other offensive contributors for Sacred Heart were senior Elizabeth Alford, who recorded six kills and five blocks, and Ava Benefield

with 13 kills and an ace. Newman’s scoring attack was led by senior LeiLani Reid, who ﬁnished with 20 kills, three blocks and three aces. Susu Milling led the Greenies in assists with 37. “(Facing Sacred Heart) is always back and forth,” Newman coach Colleen Loerzel said. “A battle until the end. The kids really work hard and leave it all on the court. We have a really young team, so this was the ﬁrst time a lot of them have been in this atmosphere.” Sacred Heart improved to 12-4 on the season after Wednesday’s district win. The Cardinals will face another district foe in Fisher during their next match on Monday. Newman (14-5) will look to get back in the win column on Tuesday at home against district opponent Thomas Jefferson.

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE Dominican sophomore Olivia Anderson recorded a team-high 12 kills in a four-set victory over Country Day on Wednesday, with her most significant kill ending a third-set comeback scare after a series of errant attempts. In a matchup between two programs with long histories of reaching the state finals, Anderson’s set-clinching swing came after Country Day erased an eight-point deficit to tie the score at 22-all. Dominican (24-4) regained the lead on kills by Hazel Roots and Hadley Bonifacic. With one more point needed to clinch the set, freshman setter Ella Baker went back to Anderson at the left pin, and Anderson’s final swing deflected off two Country Day defenders before glancing to the floor. “We call it a redemption ball,” Dominican coach Jessica Chatellier said. “That’s something that’s big for them. After (someone makes) a mistake, good next-ball

play is to think about giving (her) the ball again.” Anderson’s point came after her three previous errant attempts went long during Country Day’s rally. “That happens to everyone,” Anderson, playing in her first varsity season, said about the errant hits. “I trusted myself and I trusted my setter and I said, ‘I need to put this ball down.’ ” The 25-18, 15-25, 25-22, 25-14 victory marked Dominican’s first win at Country Day since 2023. Country Day (16-6) won the teams’ last two meetings on its home floor. Other scoring leaders for Dominican were eighth grader Elle Diley with nine kills, five blocks and two aces. Bailey Dauzet had nine kills. Dominican has made seven consecutive Division I finals appearances, finishing as runner-up the past two seasons after winning four in a row. Country Day has won 10 consecutive state titles and 16 of the past 17, all in Division V. Those championships came before the Cajuns

Jaylan Ash spent last season studying the habits of Destrehan No. 1 wide receiver Jabari Mack, an LSU player who recorded more than 1,000 yards from scrimmage as a senior. Now in his senior year, Ash has applied what he learned from Mack to become Destrehan’s go-to receiver. Ash’s goal of a 1,000-yard season this year appears within reach now that he is thriving as a downfield receiving threat while contributing as a return specialist. Through six weeks, Ash has a team-high 26 receptions for 582 yards and five touchdowns. He also ran a kickoff back for a touchdown in Destrehan’s Week 3 win against West Jefferson. “I’ve just been putting my head down on the field and off the field, trying to be a better leader and teammate,” Ash said. “After watching (Mack) practice and play, it was a really good step in the right direction for me. He’s (now) playing at a big level, the SEC, so if there’s anybody I want to watch, it’s him.” The 6-foot, 160-pound Ash is known for his speed and has been on a recruiting target since his sophomore year at Rummel. He transferred to Destrehan before his junior year and has continued improving ever since. “Jaylan is a capable player,” coach Marcus Scott said. “We’ve always known that. He’s taken some steps to improve, and we’re seeing the results of all of his hard work.” The journey hasn’t always been easy for Ash, who credits his parents and Destrehan’s coaching staff for helping him to stay motivated. “There are days that are going to be hard days, but at the end of the day, (my parents) just want to see me win,” Ash said. “I’d also like to thank my coaches for pushing me to the limit.” A Nicholls State commitment, Ash has developed a close bond with his teammates at Destrehan. Wildcats senior running back Malachi Dabney and senior de- Email Spencer Urquhart at fensive back Ryan Montague are surquhart@theadvocate.com.

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also Nicholls commitments. Ash has a strong connection with Destrehan quarterback A’Ushai Smith, a ﬁrst-year starter at the position. Smith has completed 57 of 83 passes for 944 yards and 10 touchdowns with no interceptions, with more than half of his yards passing going to Ash. “(Smith and I) have gained a lot of chemistry,” Ash said. “We talk off the ﬁeld a lot more, been staying after practice to catch extra balls, throw extra passes just to get that chemistry right where it needs to be.” The other key element to Destrehan’s offense is its rushing attack led by Dabney, who has 651 yards and eight touchdowns this year. With Ash and Dabney leading the way, Destrehan has scored 32 or more points in every game this season outside of a Week 2 loss to St. Augustine. “We all just have the passion of wanting to win,” Dabney said. “(Ash) has been a major asset this season. If (other teams) try to just stop me and the run game, you have to worry about our receivers.” Destrehan improved to 5-1 last week after a 32-20 district win over Thibodaux in which Ash nearly had another special teams touchdown. Dabney ran for two TDs and his second score put the game out of reach. District play continues for Destrehan this week against parish rival Hahnville (4-2). Senior quarterback Landen Teague and senior running back Fabian Celestine lead a Hahnville offense that’s averaged more than 40 points per game during a fourgame winning streak. “The community is excited about (the Hahnville game), and the kids on both sides are,” Scott said. “We have to try to contain (Teague and Celestine) as much as possible, and it’s not just those two guys. They have a number of kids on offense that can make plays.” Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. Friday at Destrehan.

moved to Division IV this season. Also essential to Dominican’s success was the back-row play of Aubrie Dalton and Aurore Tortorich, who combined for 39 digs against Country Day’s powerful Layla Henderson and Jade Washington, who combined for 27 kills. “Dominican dug a ton of balls, and I thought they played really well,” Country Day coach Julie Ibieta said. “We haven’t played that long of rallies recently in terms of just having to play through so many points. We didn’t stay consistent. We were kind of up and down the whole time.” Dominican’s key remaining matches include Tuesday against Chapelle and an Oct. 27 rematch with Mount Carmel. Dominican won the teams’ first meeting in ﬁve sets. Volleyball playoff brackets will be announced Nov. 2, with the state tournament opening with quarterﬁnal matches Nov. 12. Contact Christopher Dabe at cdabe@theadvocate.com

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Destrehan wide receiver Jaylan Ash scores a touchdown against St. Augustine on Sept. 11 in Destrehan. Ash has a team-high 26 receptions for 582 yards and five touchdowns for the Wildcats, who host rival Hahnville on Friday night.

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

Thursday’s games District 6-5A

Warren Easton vs. East Jefferson at Yenni, 6:30 p.m.

District 9-5A

Brother Martin vs. John Curtis at Bertolino

District 11-3A

District 9-4A

Kennedy vs. McDonogh 35 at Pan American

District 10-4A

Belle Chasse at Shaw Willow vs. Kenner Discovery at Bertolino

District 9-3A

Patterson at St. Charles

Patrick Taylor vs. L.B. Landry at Morris F.X. Jeff Sr. Stadium

District 10-2A

Haynes vs. Higgins at Memtsas, 6:30 p.m. Ben Franklin vs. Morris Jeff at Joe Brown McMain at Acadiana Renaissance

Fisher at Country Day, 4:30 p.m. Newman at Houma Christian

Nondistrict

Friday’s games District 6-5A

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

District 7-5A

Hahnville at Destrehan Thibodaux at East St. John

Pine at Northlake Christian

District 11-2A District 10-1A

Ascension Catholic at St. Martin’s Riverside at South Plaquemines

Nondistrict

Booker T. Washington at Young Audiences Covenant Christian at West St. John De La Salle at Jefferson Davis (Miss.) Hannan at Opelousas Catholic Sarah T. Reed at Abbeville Saturday

District 8-5A

District 9-5A

Bonnabel vs. West Jefferson at Memtsas John Ehret vs. Riverdale at Yenni

District 9-4A

Jesuit vs. St. Augustine at Gormley

District 9-5A

Abramson vs. Carver at Gormley, 3 p.m.

District 7-4A

Cohen vs. Thomas Jefferson at Memtsas, 2 p.m. Sophie B. Wright vs. Jefferson Rise at Memtsas Open date: Pope John Paul II

Chalmette vs. Holy Cross at Gormley Rummel vs. Edna Karr at Morris F.X. Jeff Sr. Stadium Lakeshore at Salmen Pearl River at Franklinton

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Moore: Benson criticism part of ‘business’ BY MATTHEW PARAS and LUKE JOHNSON

and Shepherd (illness) were also not present Wednesday. Elliss has missed the last two games, and the Saints defense has struggled without him on the ﬁeld — especially against the run, where it has allowed 179 yards per game. In three games with Elliss in the lineup, New Orleans allowed 128.7 yards rushing per game. Running back Alvin Kamara (back), edge rusher Tyree Wilson (ankle), and defensive linemen Broughton (illness) and Colby Wooden (toe) were limited participants. Rookie offensive guard Jeremiah Wright returned after missing the loss to Minnesota after suffering a concussion during a practice last week.

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New Orleans Saints coach Kellen Moore said he has not met with owner Gayle Benson about the team’s slow start, but he indicated he has no problem with her publicly criticizing the black and gold’s 1-4 record. Benson, in an eight-minute speech Tuesday, called the record “unacceptable” and demanded that the Saints be better prepared, fix their mistakes and turn the season around. “Mrs. B’s great,” Moore said. “She, like all of us, better reNotebook wants sults. That’s how this business is. We’ve got great guys in this building doing what they can to ﬁnd a formula. All we can control is moving forward, as far as playing better, coaching better, giving ourselves better opportunities. “I think our guys have the right mindset. Again, it’s the NFL, there’s ups and there’s downs. It’s about navigating those and getting better moving forward.” Moore said he thought Benson’s comments neither created additional urgency nor did he interpret the remarks as an ultimatum. “It’s where we’re at,” Moore said. “We’re 1-4, missed a few opportunities right there. Again, we all want the same thing. We’re all shooting for that, we’ve all got the same objectives. We’ve just got to get better moving forward.” Asked whether he’ll meet with Benson, Moore said they see each other a “few times” throughout the week but haven’t sat down to discuss the issues Benson raised in her speech.

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Continued from page 1C quarter since he took over. In her speech, Benson harped on preparation and fixing “the mistakes that are costing us games.” That has rarely happened with Moore. The Saints have not carried the momentum of last season’s late four-game winning streak into this season. Other curious trends with Moore include a lack of play action through his time as a play-caller and an inconsistent approach to fourth down. The Saints, according to RBSDM, have been one of the most conservative teams this season when deciding to kick or go for the conversion.

Rookie wasteland The Saints had a case last year for having the league’s best rookie class. The black and gold can’t make that claim this year. New Orleans has gotten a staggering lack of production from its rookie class, starting at the top. First-round wide receiver Jordyn Tyson hasn’t played this season because he’s on injured reserve with a hamstring injury, and it looks like he won’t return before Week 9. The next two picks haven’t fared much better. Defensive tackle Christen Miller missed two games with a toe injury, was inactive when available for a third absence and then played a limited role in Sunday’s loss to the Minnesota Vikings, even with two other starting linemen out. Third-round tight end

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New Orleans Saints coach Kellen Moore reacts after a play against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sept. 27 in the Caesars Superdome. The Saints are off to a 1-4 start. Moore said he also doesn’t pay attention to outside chatter about his job status. “There’s the task at hand and we’re focused on that,” he said. “I can’t worry about any of that other stuff. This is the NFL, we’ve all been through plenty of seasons, there’s highs, there’s lows, obviously there’s emotions related to it. But you’ve just got to focus on the task at hand. Seasons take plenty of different courses.”

on his left hand this weekend against the New York Giants, but he said he’s feeling better. Shough was a full participant on the Wednesday practice report, and he said he’d probably wear the glove on his hand again as a precaution. During last week’s game against the Vikings, Shough was clearly trying to avoid using his left hand — often picking himself up or handing the football off with his right hand. After the game, Injury report Shough gave an evasive answer Quarterback Tyler Shough likely when asked whether his hand was will continue to play with a glove broken.

Oscar Delp mostly has been used as a blocker and caught just one pass. That leaves either fourth-round wideout Bryce Lance (ﬁve catches, 57 yards) or sixth-round wide receiver Barion Brown (326 return yards on 13 kickoffs) as the Saints’ most productive rookie. Guard Jeremiah Wright, cornerback Lorenzo Styles and cornerback T.J. Hall (on the practice squad) haven’t logged a non-special teams snap. Excluding special teams, the Saints’ 2026 draft class has combined to play just 306 snaps — the ninth-fewest across the league. Five weeks don’t make or break a draft class, but the minimal returns so far stand in stark contrast to last season — when the Saints appeared to hit on two foundational pieces (Kelvin Banks and Tyler Shough) and picked up two more defensive starters (Jonas Sanker and Quincy Riley).

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of his 13 allowed catches resulting in touchdowns. The Saints have also alternated snaps between Riley and backup Martin Emerson. Defensive coordinator Brandon Staley has said they’ve done that because they view Emerson as a starting-caliber corner, but it likely wouldn’t happen if Riley played well enough to fully solidify his spot. Teams also have gone after Sanker, the Saints’ new addition in the slot. The second-year safety has been targeted 27 times, giving up 24 catches for 212 yards and two touchdowns.

Tackle issues Much has been made about how Moore leaves his tackles on an island, matched up one-on-one against edge rushers. And while that approach has opened up the coach to criticism, it honestly wouldn’t be as big of an issue if the linemen could block better. Yes, that’s oversimplifying it. But right tackle Taliese Fuaga has given up 21 pressures — the most in the league, according to Pro Football Focus. Left tackle Asim Richards, ﬁlling in for an injured Banks, ranks sixth with 17. Some of that reflects how often the Saints throw the ball, but the two tackles rank second (Richards, 12.7%) and eighth (Fuaga, 9.4%) in the NFL in pressure percentage allowed. Fuaga, in his third season after being drafted 14th overall in 2024, has given up the second-most sacks this season with four.

Say what you want about the defensive line, but at least Chase Young is having a monster season. The edge rusher accounts for 21 of the Saints’ 57 pressures. The secondary? The unit looks in desperate need of a star. Kool-Aid McKinstry, New Orleans’ No. 1 cornerback, has allowed 17 catches for 255 yards — the 14th-most in the league, according to Pro Football Focus. The 15 yards per catch is the highest of his career, as are his allowed passer rating (102) and reception percentage (60.7%). Riley, the corner opposite McKinstry, also has struggled. He has allowed an even higher Email Matthew Paras at passer rating of 116.8, with three matt.paras@theadvocate.com

Vikings. You best believe that didn’t go unnoticed by Benson. Continued from page 1C To her credit, she is holding everyone accountable — including herself. “Kellen Moore and his coaches season and obviously had plenty are responsible for preparing our of grace as the Saints were in a players to perform,” Benson said. rebuild mode. Benson’s words Tuesday prob- “Mickey Loomis and our football staff are responsible for building ably aren’t foreshadowing her a roster capable of sustained sucmaking any sudden moves. But it’s definitely an indication that cess. The players are responsible folks are on notice and she wants for their preparation and execuresults quickly. She let it be tion. I am responsible for holding known in that interview last year this organization accountable.” that she is well aware of what’s So props to Benson for not going on with her franchises. shying away from the obvious. “I am not an absentee owner who She easily could have stepped flies in just for games,” she said. “I to the podium Tuesday and gave am in the office and am out in the the audience the same cliches community every day. I talk to fans, Moore has given the media latepartners and our staff every day.” ly after games. And she can’t be pleased with “We’re working hard. We have what she’s hearing from the Who to stick together. Blah. Blah. Dat Nation. The noise surround- Blah.” She didn’t. ing the Saints has gotten as loud None of what she said Tuesas the visiting fans while the Saints try to shake the funk of a day really matters if they were three-game losing streak. Even empty words. She gets that. Drew Brees uncharacteristi“Words will not restore our fans’ confidence,” she said. “Our cally criticized the Saints while performance must do that.” handling broadcasting duties The Saints are just five games for Sunday’s game against the

into the season. Maybe Moore can turn things around and restore some of that optimism that surrounded the team after Week 2 when the Saints went on the road and beat Baltimore. “There is a great deal of football ahead of us,” she said. “But our response must show up on the field.” The Saints needs that response to start Sunday against the Giants. How soon would she make a change? Not sure. But if you think Benson doesn’t like seeing her teams embarrassed on national TV or in the Dome, imagine if her Saints go to Paris and humiliate her there. “To our fans, I hear you very loudly,” she said. “I understand your disappointment. And I share your determination to see this team succeed. Your support deserves a response you can see on the field. We cannot change the results of our first five games. We are responsible for what we do next. “I expect better. Our fans deserve better. And I am determined to see that we deliver.” Time is ticking.

After clearing two spots on the practice squad Tuesday by terminating the contracts of wide receiver Trey Palmer and running back Ulysses Bentley, New Orleans ﬁlled one with the signing of running back Jarquez Hunter. The Los Angeles Rams selected Hunter in the fourth round of the 2025 draft out of Auburn, then traded him to the Miami Dolphins just before the start of this season. Miami waived Hunter before he ever played a snap. New Orleans got a good look at Hunter this preseason when he was a member of the Rams when he rushed for 68 yards and a touchdown on 12 carries against them in the preseason. “He’s a talented player, going back to his evaluation coming out of Auburn,” Moore said. “He’ll be a good asset for us.”

“It didn’t really limit me at all,” Shough said. “It was just a simple switch of (hands) on certain plays with the hand off, and different play actions I would try to use two hands. But it shouldn’t affect me at all this week holding onto (the ball).” Chris Olave was not present at Wednesday’s practice because of an illness. It is not clear whether it was the same illness that knocked defensive linemen Nathan Shepherd and Vernon Broughton out of Sunday’s game against Minnesota. Linebacker Kaden Elliss (calf), Email Matthew Paras at matt. edge rusher Anfernee Jennings (knee) paras@theadvocate.com

WR Evans is a ‘game changer’ in his ﬁrst season with 49ers BY JOSH DUBOWAP sportswriter

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers have put together some dynamic offenses under Kyle Shanahan even without the prototypical No. 1 outside receiver. They’ve had gadget players like Deebo Samuel that excel after the catch, strong route runners like Brandon Aiyuk and Ricky Pearsall who can create separation but haven’t had that big-bodied outside receiver who can win one-on-one matchups even when he isn’t open. That all changed this offseason when the Niners signed Mike Evans in the offseason after a 12-year run in Tampa Bay. “Obviously he’s a game changer,” quarterback Brock Purdy said. “True X receiver that, if you give him the right looks and stuff and give him a chance, he can make defenses pay.” Never was that more evident than this past week when the game was on the line in a division showdown at Seattle. The 49ers’ offense had been throttled for almost three quarters before Evans took the game over to maintain the perfect record for San Francisco (5-0). Evans caught four passes for 75 yards on the go-ahead touchdown drive against the Seahawks, including a 15-yarder to get out of a ﬁrstand-20 hole, a 23-yarder to convert on third-and-10 and a 28-yarder down the sideline after an intentional grounding penalty left the Niners facing second-and-21. “He’s a difference maker,” teammate Christian McCaffrey said. “He’s a spark, he’s everything you’d ever want in a receiver.” Making the performance even more impressive is the fact that Evans was playing despite breaking two ribs in a Week 3 win against Arizona. He fought through the injury to play the next week against Denver and then he showed he was the missing piece against a Seahawks defense that held the Niners without a touchdown in two late-season matchups last season. “It’s just what I’m here for,” Evans said. “Nothing is really promised in this game and if you’re available to play and go out there for your team and try to do your best to help get a win, that’s what I’m going

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San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Mike Evans talks to reporters following a game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday in Seattle.

to do. That’s what a lot of guys on this team have been doing, playing through injuries and putting it all out there.” Evans has been a perfect fit both stylistically and personality wise with the 49ers as a no-fuss star who fits in well with players like McCaffrey, Purdy and star tight end George Kittle. After a successful run in Tampa Bay that included a record-setting 11 straight seasons with at least 1,000 yards receiving, a Super Bowl title and six Pro Bowl honors, Evans was looking for a new start this season. He took a below-market deal with the 49ers, signing a three-year, $42 million contract and has more than delivered. He has 24 catches for 326 yards and three touchdowns, leads all qualified receivers by turning 91.7% of his catches into first downs or touchdowns, including 11 on third down to tie for the league lead.. Purdy has a 149.9 passer rating when targeting Evans. “He’s a dog, that’s all I can say,” Purdy said. “He fights through stuff. He’s competitive as heck, and he’s going to go out there and obviously give the team every chance for everything that he’s got, even if he’s going through stuff. We saw that obviously the last couple weeks with him playing sort of injured and even today, and it’s early in the season. For a guy like him and where he’s at in his career, to keep showing up for the team, man, and myself and being out there, man, like it’s just a testament to his character and who he is.”

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Associated Press CLEVELAND — The Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians have a common opponent with the American League Championship Series shifting to Progressive Field for the next three games. Mother Nature. Game 3 in the best-of-seven series Thursday was changed to a noon start because of the threat of rain in Cleveland during the evening. Major League Baseball moved up the start time ﬁve hours Wednesday to keep the series on schedule. It might not be the only time weather throws both teams a curveball, either. Friday’s forecast calls for rain all day. Game 4 on Friday remains scheduled to start at 5 p.m., and the ﬁrst pitch of Game 5 on Saturday is slated for 7 p.m. The ALCS is tied 1-all after the Rays’ 3-1 victory at home Tuesday

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The grounds crew grooms the infield Wednesday before Game 3 of the American League Championship Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians on Thursday in Cleveland.

Coming off an off day probably helps a little bit,” Rays manager NOON THURSDAY, TBS, truTV Kevin Cash said Wednesday. Tampa Bay ﬂew into Cleveland night. Cleveland took the opener after Tuesday night’s game. The Guardians elected to stay in Flor7-3 on Monday. “I think MLB did the right thing. ida overnight before ﬂying back They felt likelier that we were go- Wednesday morning. According to MLB Network, ing to get rain in the mid-to-late afternoon (Thursdsay. So let’s it will be the earliest start time move the game up and try to bank for a League Championship Seas many dry innings as possible. ries game in the Eastern time

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zone since Game 5 of the 1988 NL Championship Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets started at 11:20 a.m. at Shea Stadium. There was a Monday matinee that year because Game 3 of the series was postponed because of rain, pushing everything back one day. Tampa Bay will send right-hander Griffin Jax to the mound in Game 3. Jax (8-10, 3.52 ERA) struck out four and gave up one run in two innings of relief against the New York Yankees in Game 3 of their Division Series. It was his first relief appearance since April 21. It will be Jax’s first postseason start. He also made four relief appearances with Minnesota during the 2023 postseason. “It’s a big honor, one that I’ve been looking forward to for a really long time now that I’m in the rotation,” he said. Jax — who has a six-pitch arsenal — ranked sixth among AL starters during the regular season with a 30.1% strikeout rate. He said it helped watching how Rays starters Drew Rasmussen and Freddy Peralta approached the Guardians’ hitters during the first two games of the series. “There’s definitely things I can

watch and learn from the way Drew attacked them and then what Freddy did last night. So, a lot to watch and a lot that I’m going to go over some notes tonight, and stick to my game plan at the end of the day,” Jax said. Jax will be tasked with trying to limit the second and third hitters in Cleveland’s lineup. José Ramírez has a .333 batting average during the postseason, including going 9 for 21 with two home runs and nine RBIs over the past ﬁve games. Guardians rookie Chase DeLauter is 4 for 6 with a homer and two RBIs in the ALCS, and has a .346 batting average in the postseason. Cleveland will go with Gavin Williams (14-8, 3.76 ERA), who led the American League in strikeouts this season. The right-hander tied a franchise postseason record with 12 strikeouts in Saturday’s 2-0 win over the Chicago White Sox in the deciding game of their ALDS.

NLCS start time MLB also moved up the start of Game 4 of the NL Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers for broadcast purposes. That game at Dodger Stadium will now start an hour earlier, at 7 p.m. The Brewers lead that series 2-0.

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Wednesday’s games

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Kennesaw St. (1-4) at Missouri St. (1-4), n W. Kentucky (2-4) at Sam Houston St. (1-4), n

Course: Webb Memorial Hole, yardage: No. 17, n/a Club selection: pitching wedge Witnesses: Joe Gray, Bar Lambert

SOUTH

Thursday’s games

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.

Odds

SOUTHWEST

NFL Thursday

FAVORITE Seattle

Sunday

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

Friday’s games

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 2½ 2½ (40½) at DENVER

EAST

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

SOUTH

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at JACKSONVILLE 1½ 2½ (42½) Houston at INDIANAPOLIS 3½ 6½ (44½) Tennessee Carolina 6½ 1½ (40½) at PHILA. Pittsburgh 1½ 2½ (39½) at TAMPA at NEW ENGLAND 9½ 7½ (43½) NY Jets New Orleans 2½ 1½ (45½) at GIANTS Baltimore 7 5½ (42½) at CLEVE. Chicago 3 1½ (51) at ATLANTA at LA RAMS 13½ 12½ (52½) Arizona at KANSAS CITY 2½ 8½ (42½) LA Chargers Buffalo 6½ 4½ (53½) at LAS VEGAS at GREEN BAY 3 1½ (53½) Dallas

Monday

FAVORITE at SAN FRAN.

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.

Major League Baseball Postseason glance LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

(Best-of-7); x-if necessary American League Cleveland 1, Tampa Bay 1 Monday: Game 1: Cleveland 7, Tampa Bay 3 Tuesday: Game 2: Tampa Bay 3, Cleveland 1 Thursday: Game 3: Tampa Bay (Jax 8-10) at Cleveland (Williams 14-8), noon Friday: Game 4: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Saturday: Game 5: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 7 p.m. x-Monday, Oct. 19: Game 6: Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. x-Tuesday, Oct. 20: Game 7: Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 5½ 7½ (50½) Washington

College football Thursday

FAVORITE East Carolina Ga. Southern at TEXAS ST.

Friday

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 6½ 4½ (47½) at UAB 2½ 3½ (47½)at OLD DOM. 9½ 14½ (70½) Colo. St.

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Memphis 6½ 6½ (55½) at TULANE Appalachian St. 2½ 1½ (49½) at C. CARO. at PURDUE 2½ 3½ (52½) Wash.

Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at TEXAS 9½ 11½ (51½) Florida at KANSAS ST. 8½ 4½ (55½) Kansas at ARMY 3½ 2½ (55½) Florida Atlantic at WEST VA. 2½ 1½ (63½) Cincinnati at JAMES MAD. 10½ 12½ (58½) Georgia St. at BO. GREEN 8½ 6½ (47½) Ball St. at SMU 6½ 8½ (52½) Virginia Pittsburgh 6½ 6½ (42½) at B. COLL. Ohio St. 1½ 3½ (50½) at INDIANA at LSU 10½ 14½ (57½) Miss. St. Northwestern 7½ 7½ (49½) at MICH. ST. at CLEMSON 43½ 42½ (56½) Charle.So. at MARYLAND 4½ 4½ (57½) Rutgers at TEMPLE 23½ 20½ (46½) Charlotte at TEXAS A&M 44½ 45½ (56½) Citadel at BUFFALO 3½ 6½ (41½) UMass W. Michigan 8½ 6½ (43½) at C. MICH. at MICHIGAN 6½ 6½ (42½) Penn St. Alabama 1½ 8½ (52½) at TENN. at MIAMI (OH) 9½ 9½ (46½) Akron at DUKE 4½ 3½ (47½) N. Carolina UNLV 3 1½ (48½) at AIR FRCE at WYOMING 8½ 7½ (40½) N. Illinois at GEORGIA 16½ 20½ (49½) Auburn Toledo 6½ 6½ (53½) at E. MICH. at TEXAS TECH 12½ 14½ (48½) Arizona St. at OLE MISS 7½ 5½ (59½) Missouri at VA. TECH 8½ 10 (57½) Ga. Tech Tulsa 3 4½ (46½) at RICE at UL 3½ 3½ (49½) Troy at OREGON ST. 13½ 17½ (52½) Wash. St. at S. FLORIDA 18½ 20½ (45½) Kent St. at VANDERBILT 6½ 6 (50½) Arkansas at MIAMI (Fla.) 16½ 21½ (56½) Florida St. at BAYLOR 6½ 5½ (48½) TCU Arkansas St. 6½ 7 (62½) at SO. MISS at N. DAK. ST. 14½ 14½ (42½) Nevada at UCLA 3 2½ (43½) Wisconsin at OKLAHOMA 6½ 6½ (43½) Kentucky Louisville 12½ 14½ (56½) at SYRA. at STANFORD 32½ 35½ (56½) Elon at HOUSTON 2½ 4½ (62½) Okla. St. Notre Dame 10½ 10½ (46½) at BYU at UTSA 7 6½ (56½) Navy Louisiana Tech 14½ 15½ (56½) at ULM San Jose St. 10 7½ (46½) at UTEP Ohio 13½ 15½ (48½) at SACR. ST. Utah 13½ 15½ (49½) at COLO. Fresno St. 8½ 7½ (46½) at S.D. ST. Wake Forest 8½ 9½ (53½) at CAL New Mexico 17½ 14½ (44½) at HAWAII at OREGON 7½ 7½ (52½) Nebraska

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

Early lead

Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Jackson Chourio celebrates his solo home run with second baseman Brice Turang as Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith looks on during the first inning of Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Wednesday in Los Angeles. The game ended after deadline. NFC

Punters

East

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

W 3 2 2 1

L 1 3 3 3

T 1 0 0 1

Pct .700 .400 .400 .300

PF 109 92 138 115

PA 106 112 136 149

W 2 2 1 1

L 2 3 4 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .500 .400 .200 .200

PF 121 119 100 118

PA 109 122 112 151

W 5 3 3 3

L 0 2 2 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .600 0 .600 0 .600

PF PA 109 64 104 112 164 148 119 96

W 5 3 2 1

L 0 2 3 4

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .600 0 .400 0 .200

PF PA 154 93 134 105 119 120 108 162

Thursday’s game

Seattle at Denver, 7:15 p.m.

Sunday’s games

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

Monday’s game

Washington at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m.

NFL leaders

Thursday

East

National League

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W 4 3 2 0

L 1 2 3 5

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .800 .600 .400 .000

PF PA 164 141 110 94 93 96 70 132

W 4 2 1 0

L 1 3 4 5

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .800 .400 .200 .000

PF PA 123 70 124 138 110 112 58 109

W 4 3 3 3

L 1 2 2 2

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .800 .600 .600 .600

PF 146 93 111 128

W 4 3 3 0

L 0 2 2 5

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .600 0 .600 0 .000

PA 119 112 109 109

PF PA 118 77 97 111 132 129 84 129

AFC Quarterbacks

Att 185 189 172 138 184 151 143 147 128

Com 119 135 112 91 110 99 96 102 82

Yds 1402 1361 1269 1249 1234 1228 1174 1084 1037

TD 6 11 12 7 10 8 10 6 9

Int 0 3 4 4 4 7 3 0 2

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

Att 87 95 113 70 101 82 88 68 73 71

Yds 537 532 476 410 398 349 291 273 271 246

Avg 6.2 5.6 4.2 5.9 3.9 4.3 3.3 4.0 3.7 3.5

LG 76 35 32t 50t 24t 20 19 18 17 13

TD 4 5 7 1 6 2 0 1 3 1

No 27 26 31 22 16 24 27 16 23

Yds 423 405 374 352 330 312 289 277 274

Avg 15.7 15.6 12.1 16.0 20.6 13.0 10.7 17.3 11.9

LG 29 54t 32t 51t 60 27 45t 40 33

TD 1 2 3 4 3 3 4 1 0

Receivers

Higgins, Cin Flowers, Bal Wilson, NYJ Washington, Jac Boston, Cle Bowers, Las Chase, Cin Kincaid, Buf Tate, Ten

Williams, NYJ M.Jones, NE Wester, Bal Dortch, Buf Noel, Hou Wetjen, Pit Dike, Ten Remigio, KC Meyers, Cin Washington, Jac

No 9 9 8 9 8 8 8 6 7 7

Yds 98 88 76 84 72 69 57 42 41 21

Avg 10.9 9.8 9.5 9.3 9.0 8.6 7.1 7.0 5.9 3.0

Long 20 19 24 25 17 17 14 27 15 12

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Davis, Buf Gould, Ind Laube, Las Abdullah, Jac R.Sanders, Cle McGowan, Ind C.Moore, Bal

No 7 7 10 9 10 14 8

Yds 225 215 303 264 293 408 229

Avg 32.1 30.7 30.3 29.3 29.3 29.1 28.6

LG 70 54 53 53 74 66 42

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Allen, Buf Henry, Bal Taylor, Ind Walker, KC Cook, Buf Chase, Cin Freiermuth, Pit Gesicki, Cin Washington, Jac

TD 8 8 6 6 5 4 4 4 4

Rush 8 7 6 4 5 0 0 0 0

Rec 0 1 0 2 0 4 4 4 4

Ret 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pts 48 48 36 36 30 24 24 24 24

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

PAT 10/11 11/11 11/11 14/14 15/17 15/15 12/13 10/10 7/8 13/13

FG 16/16 11/12 11/12 10/10 9/9 9/11 9/11 9/12 10/10 7/9

LG 58 58 59 58 49 64 57 56 56 46

Pts 58 44 44 44 42 42 39 37 37 34

Com 139 128 112 129 137 101 98 132 89 76

Yds 1572 1485 1408 1381 1299 1268 1196 1110 933 805

TD 9 12 10 9 9 9 13 9 8 6

Int 6 0 3 3 5 2 2 5 3 3

Yds 580 504 410 406 354 343 324

Avg 5.7 4.8 4.2 5.3 4.5 4.9 5.4

LG 59t 22 20 72 32 30 61t

TD 4 7 2 2 4 4 3

Punt returners

Kickoff returners

SCORING Touchdowns

Kicking

Stroud, Hou Burrow, Cin Cousins, Las Allen, Buf Rodgers, Pit Maye, NE Lawrence, Jac G.Smith, NYJ Mahomes, KC

Rushers

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

No 12 24 13 19 21 25 24 20 20 17

NFC Quarterbacks Stafford, LAR Goff, Det Love, GB Prescott, Dal Shough, NO Young, Car Purdy, SF Brissett, Ari Hurts, Phi Winston, NYG

Rushers

Bi.Robinson, Atl Gibbs, Det A.Jones, Min Irving, TB Swift, Chi Williams, LAR Monangai, Chi

Att 216 191 185 192 205 162 142 199 154 132 Att 102 105 97 77 78 70 60

Yds 627 1243 672 948 1045 1222 1173 961 959 809

Lg 69 81 59 72 62 65 68 57 67 60

Avg 52.3 51.8 51.7 49.9 49.8 48.9 48.9 48.1 48.0 47.6

Hubbard, Car Skattebo, NYG McCaffrey, SF

61 81 61

306 294 286

5.0 3.6 4.7

32 19 16

3 1 5

Smith-Njigba, Sea Olave, NO Lamb, Dal D.London, Atl Watson, GB Adams, LAR Golden, GB McMillan, Car St. Brown, Det Pickens, Dal

No 37 39 39 27 26 27 24 26 37 27

Yds 583 537 507 488 474 441 397 385 372 355

Avg 15.8 13.8 13.0 18.1 18.2 16.3 16.5 14.8 10.1 13.1

LG 82t 47 49 68 81t 64 50 32t 36 53

TD 7 1 4 0 6 4 2 2 5 1

Receivers

Punters

Stout, NYG Whelan, GB Mann, Phi Way, Was R.Wright, N.O. Bailey, Atl Fox, Det Evans, LAR Waitman, SF Martin, Car

No 18 22 25 25 18 17 19 16 16 13

Price, Min Moore, GB Covey, Phi Lane, Was Branch, Atl T.Johnson, TB Turpin, Dal Raymond, Chi Smith, SF Shaheed, Sea

No 11 8 14 7 7 8 9 9 7 9

Yds 238 128 177 84 83 92 100 93 69 79

Price, Min White, Was Shaheed, Sea K.Johnson, TB Moore, GB Turpin, Dal Melton, GB

No 17 7 13 10 11 20 8

Yds 506 197 359 275 302 549 218

Punt returners

Kickoff returners

SCORING Touchdowns

Yds 924 1091 1234 1209 865 816 908 759 756 613

Lg 78 75 64 60 64 62 65 67 61 61

Avg 51.3 49.6 49.4 48.4 48.1 48.0 47.8 47.4 47.3 47.2

Avg 21.6 16.0 12.6 12.0 11.9 11.5 11.1 10.3 9.9 8.8

Long 86t 63 41 19 25 16 17 24 19 14

TD 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Avg 29.8 28.1 27.6 27.5 27.5 27.5 27.3

LG 68 38 39 48 43 48 59

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Gibbs, Det Smith-Njigba, Sea J.Williams, Dal Watson, GB Hubbard, Car McCaffrey, SF Bi.Robinson, Atl St. Brown, Det Williams, LAR

TD Rush Rec Ret Pts 9 7 2 0 54 7 0 7 0 42 7 6 1 0 42 6 0 6 0 36 5 3 2 0 30 5 5 0 0 30 5 4 1 0 30 5 0 5 0 30 5 4 1 0 30

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

PAT 8/8 20/20 14/15 8/8 13/14 10/10 12/12 10/13 12/12 14/14 8/11

Kicking

FG 15/15 8/8 10/10 11/14 9/12 10/10 9/12 9/9 8/10 7/9 9/11

College football Tuesday’s scores Middle Tennessee 33, Delaware 30 Jacksonville State 27, FIU 24

LG 56 54 57 56 60 59 51 53 60 50 57

Pts 53 44 44 41 40 40 39 37 36 35 35

Milwaukee 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 0 Sunday: Game 1: Milwaukee 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 1 Monday: Game 2: Milwaukee 7, Dodgers 4 Wednesday: Game 3: Milwaukee (Gasser 5-5) at Los Angeles Dodgers (Snell 4-1), n Thursday: Game 4: Milwaukee at Los Angeles Dodgers, 7 p.m. x-Friday: Game 5: Milwaukee at Los Angeles Dodgers, 8 p.m. x-Sunday, Oct. 18: Game 6: Los Angeles Dodgers at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. x-Monday, Oct. 19: Game 7: Los Angeles Dodgers at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay 3, Cleveland 1 Late Tuesday

Cleveland Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h bi Kwan lf-cf 5 0 2 0 Díaz dh 4 0 0 0 Ramírez 3b 4 0 1 0 Aranda 1b 3 0 0 0 DeLauter dh 2 0 1 1 Caminero 3b 3 0 1 0 Adell rf 4 0 0 0 Mesa rf 4 1 0 0 Lowe 1b 4 0 0 0 DeLuca cf 4 0 2 0 Bazzana 2b 4 0 1 0 Simpson lf 3 1 1 0 Halpin cf 3 0 1 0 Williamson 2b 1 1 0 0 Martínez lf 1 0 0 0 Palacios ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Hedges c 1 0 0 0 Hicks c 3 0 2 2 Bailey ph-c 1 1 0 0 Walls ss 3 0 1 0 Rocchio ss 4 0 0 0 Totals 33 1 6 1 Totals 29 3 7 2 Cleveland 000 000 100 — 1 Tampa Bay 000 300 00x — 3 E — Ramírez (1). DP — Cleveland 2, Tampa Bay 0. LOB — Cleveland 9, Tampa Bay 5. 2B — DeLauter (2), Caminero (1). SB — Ramírez (1). IP H R ER BB SO Cleveland Messick L,0-1 5 6 3 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 1 Armstrong 12⁄3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Herrin Cecconi 1 0 0 0 0 2 Tampa Bay Peralta W,1-0 6 4 0 0 2 6 2 ⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 Kelly H,1 1 0 0 0 2 Seymour H,1 11⁄3 Baker S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 1 HBP — Peralta (Hedges), Messick (Aranda). WP — Peralta. ABS Challenge — DeLauter (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Peralta (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Peralta (Ball-Conﬁrmed); Kelly (BallOverturned to Strike). Umpires — Home, Carlos Torres; First, Mark Ripperger; Second, Jordan Baker; Third, Chad Fairchild; Right, Nestor Ceja; Left, Adam Hamari. T — 2:42. A — 32,125 (25,025).

Pro basketball WNBA playoff glance Finals

(Best-of-5) No. 2 Golden State vs. No. 4 Atlanta Saturday: Atlanta at Golden State, 2:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19: Atlanta at Golden State, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21: Golden State at Atlanta, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24: Golden State at Atlanta, noon x-Monday, Oct. 26: Atlanta at Golden State, TBA x-Thursday, Oct. 29: Golden State at Atlanta, TBA x-Saturday, Oct. 31: Atlanta at Golden State, TBA

Transactions BASEBALL

American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Fired manager Joe Espada. MINNESOTA TWINS — Named Brian Reith pitching coach.

FOOTBALL NFL

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed TE Shawn Bowman from the practice squad to the active roster. Designated S Kitan Crawford to return from injured reserve. Signed RB Jerome Ford, WR Shedrick Jackson and LB Riley Wilson to the practice squad. Released LB Eugene Asante and DL Jay Toia from the practice squad.

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Can’t go wrong with a classic 2 sweet tricks maximize ﬂavor in Pork Bolognese

BY LINDA GASSENHEIMER Tribune News Service (TNS)

I love a good Bolognese sauce. This classic Italian favorite is traditionally made with meat, but it can be prepared with different types of protein. For this lighter version, I used ground pork. It comes together quickly, making it perfect for a weeknight dinner without breaking the calorie bank. One secret to a rich flavorful Bolognese is to thinly slice the onions and cook them slowly until they become soft and sweet. My other favorite trick is adding a little orange zest to the sauce. It brings a subtle sweetness and an intriguing citrus note that brightens the rich flavors. For maximum flavor, hold the orange over the sauce while removing the zest. Serve it with your favorite pasta and open a bag of washed, ready-to-eat salad for an easy side dish.

TNS PHOTO BY LINDA GASSENHEIMER

Pork Bolognese Yields 2 servings. Recipe is by Linda Gassenheimer. Olive oil spray 1 cup thinly sliced onion ½ cup thinly sliced celery 3 garlic cloves, crushed 2 teaspoons dried oregano 2 teaspoons dried rosemary ¾ pound ground pork 2 cups reduced-sodium marinara sauce Orange zest from 1 orange (about 1 tablespoon) Salt and freshly ground black pepper ¼ pound spaghetti 2 tablespoons chopped parsley (optional garnish) ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese 4 cups washed, ready-to-eat salad 2 tablespoons reduced-fat salad dressing 1. Boil a large pot with 3 to 4 quarts water for spaghetti. 2. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and spray with olive oil spray. Add onion and celery. Saute 5 minutes, without browning. 3. Add garlic, oregano, rosemary and pork. Saute 5 minutes, breaking up pork into small pieces while it cooks. Add the marinara sauce and orange zest. Simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. 4. Meanwhile, add spaghetti to boiling water and cook 9 minutes or according to package instructions. 5. Drain and divide between two dinner plates. Serve Bolognese sauce over the spaghetti. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and chopped parsley (if using). 6. Place 2 cups salad on the 2 dinner plates and drizzle dressing on top. NUTRITION INFO PER SERVING: 670 calories (22 percent from fat), 16.1 g fat (4.8 g saturated, 4.0 g monounsaturated), 120 mg cholesterol, 48.1 g protein, 79.1 g carbohydrates, 11.9 g ﬁber, 451 mg sodium.

STAFF PHOTO BY JAVIER GALLEGOS

Pumpkin Pancakes

SPICE IT UP

How to pump up your pancakes for an impromptu party BY APRIL HAMILTON | Contributing writer

hen my daughters were young, homemade pancakes were the star of our breakfast table. We took a page from one of their favorite books, “Pancakes, Pancakes!” by Eric Carle, which features a persistent young boy requesting pancakes. His busy mother is happy to fulfill his order after he gathers the ingredients: wheat from the field which the miller grinds into flour; eggs from the backyard hen; milk from the spotted cow, plus the cream which he churns into butter. To sweeten his pancakes, he fetches homemade jam stored in their cellar. Cue my toddlers foraging these ingredients from our own pantry. They measured and mixed, always with a friendly fight

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Pumpkin Pancakes

Serves 4. Recipe is by April Hamilton. ½ cup unbleached flour ½ cup whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon fine sea salt ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus extra for serving ¼ teaspoon ground ginger ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 cup buttermilk*, plus extra if needed ½ cup pumpkin puree

1 egg 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus extra for the griddle Plain Greek yogurt for serving (I used Siggi’s) Toasted pumpkin seeds for serving Syrup for serving (I used Dr. Bill’s Cane and Maple) *As a buttermilk substitute: combine 1 tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice with 1 cup of milk

1. Combine the ﬂours, sugar, baking soda, sea salt and spices in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together to blend. 2. Add the buttermilk, pumpkin puree, egg and oil and whisk together until smooth. Add a little extra milk if the batter is too thick. 3. Rub a little oil over a griddle or large frying pan. Heat over medium heat. 4. When a drop of water sizzles on the griddle, pour about 2 tablespoons of batter onto the heated griddle for each pancake.

5. Flip when the bubbles on top pop and the edges are slightly dry, about a minute or two. Note: Don’t rush the ﬂipping to avoid a mess on your griddle. Cook on the second side for another minute or so. 6. Remove the pancakes from the griddle onto awaiting plates. 7. Assemble your pancake party with dishes of toppings — plain Greek yogurt, toasted pumpkin seeds and a little butter and syrup if desired.

Coffee and dark chocolate team up in decadent cake OldFashioned Coffee Cake, RECIPE 2D

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BY GRETCHEN McKAY

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (TNS) For a lot of folks, there’s one seasonal fall ﬂavor that no matter how hard you try, you can’t get enough of it — pumpkin spice. We’re not just talking about Starbucks, which launched the pumpkin spice trend way back in 2003 with its Pumpkin Spice Latte and recently added a new Iced Pumpkin Cream Shaken

Espresso and Pumpkin Spice Chai to its seasonal drinks menu. The distinctive autumnal spice mix that used to be associated only with pumpkin pie seems to have commandeered nearly every aisle in your favorite grocery store. Its warm, spicy ﬂavors are found not just in desserts and baked goods but everything from beer, potato chips

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Some of the ingredients used for April Hamilton’s Pumpkin Pancakes

PANCAKES

Continued from page 1D over who got to crack the egg. While I stood by, they dropped spoonfuls of batter onto the awaiting griddle to sizzle into goldenbrown goodness. They even learned the art of the flip, patiently waiting for the bubbles on top to pop before sliding the pancake flipper beneath and plopping it over with a flick of the wrist. Now that our girls have grown and flown from the nest, pancakes are a less frequent feature. Trust me, though, pancakes aren’t

just for kids. When a pancake craving hit just as the morning temperatures dipped, I dusted off my trusted buttermilk pancake recipe — one handed down from my mom — and infused it with the ﬂavors of fall and a little nutrition boost. To my classic pancake batter, I added a scoop of pumpkin puree, plus ground cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. I sampled one right off the griddle and declared victory. The conversion was so simple it felt like cheating. I invited some friends for an impromptu pancake party, offering an array of toppings so each guest could cus-

tomize their stack: Greek yogurt for a tangy accent that pumps up the protein, toasted pumpkin seeds for a little crunch and added minerals, and just a drizzle of syrup for sweetness. In a nod to Eric Carle’s character Jack, it delights me to source my ﬂour from a Lafayette baker who grinds organic wheat into the silkiest whole wheat ﬂour. I gather my eggs and milk from the farmers market and thank these farmers who feed us. I suppose I could prepare my own pumpkin puree. Perhaps some day. The can in my pantry saved the day for my pumpkin spice pancake craving.

‘RSVP now by chipping in $25!’

Dear Miss Manners: A friend event to which you have to buy a ticket is not a perof mine is running for a local political ofﬁce. I am sonal invitation and does very supportive, not require you to and have donated send your regrets both time and monif you are unable to attend. ey to her campaign. Dear Miss Manners: However, I’ve now Could you please been invited to four provide me with a different fundraisJudith kind way to respond ers for her. Martin when someone I am I would be glad MISS having lunch with to attend without MANNERS in a restaurant asks donating additional me to join in a blessmoney, but that doesn’t seem to be possiing before eating? I would like to say something like, ble. The fundraisers don’t “I’d prefer not to, but I’m allow me to RSVP without happy to wait for you to do either buying a ticket or donating a certain amount. so.” I don’t want to provoke It’s very off-putting. I hate a confrontation or have to defend my preference. to be rude, but should I Sometimes this is with simply not RSVP to these another female friend, who events? wants to hold hands while Gentle readerv: If your she prays aloud, but lately friend wins the election, my teenage grandson has Miss Manners trusts you also begun this praying-inwere not planning to call public habit. He doesn’t do her at home on a Saturday the hand-holding thing, but to get preferential treathe is Catholic and does the ment in clearing the snow cross afterward. I ﬁnd it from the street in front of rather horrifying, frankly, your house. Even if the candidate has but I would never hurt his fallen into the bad habit of feelings for any reason, and also do not want to dressing up fundraisers upset him if he needs the with the vocabulary of social events, this is the same comfort of faith. Gentle reader: You simply problem from a different angle: There is your friend, say, “I would be happy and then there is your rep- to,” and then sit silently with your hands on your resentative, and it is time lap while your friend perto separate the two. An

forms their ritual. To Miss Manners’ thinking, this is more than merely avoiding a ﬁght: It is the most profound form of respect. Actively participating, and thus pretending to be a member of another religion, is disrespectful not only to your own faith (if applicable), but to your friend’s — whether they see it that way or not. Dear Miss Manners: My partner keeps shoving his dirty dishes at me at the dinner table, often when I am still eating. I’ve asked him, nicely, not to do that, saying that if the plates, etc., are in his way, he can just set them aside and I will clear them later. But he keeps doing it. I’ve tried setting them back or away from me, but he thinks it’s amusing to shove them right back at me. Gentle reader: Suggest that your partner clear the dishes himself. Send questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners. com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail. com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

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Old-Fashioned Coffee Cake Makes 1 cake. Recipe is adapted from “The Sugar and Spice Cookbook.” FOR CAKE: 6 ounces margarine (12 tablespoons), plus extra for greasing 6 ounces light brown or caster sugar (¾ cup) 6 ounces self-rising flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 3 eggs 3 teaspoons instant coffee, dissolved in 2 teaspoons boiling water FOR ICING: 3 ounces butter, at room temperature 5 ounces confectioners’ sugar, sifted, divided 3 teaspoons instant coffee, dissolved in 2 teaspoons boiling water 2 ounces dark chocolate, chopped and melted

COFFEE CAKE Continued from page 1D

and cereal to pasta, popcorn and yogurt. Me? I much prefer anything coffee-ﬂavored when the weather starts to cool and my backyard slowly morphs from green to a mix of brilliant reds and yellows. This rich and easy coffee cake from “The Sugar and Spice Cookbook: Sweet Treats and Bakes to Enjoy as the Nights Draw In” by Francesca Huntingdon (Hamlyn, $27) is a great place to start. When I say coffee cake, I don’t mean the sweet breakfast food with a crunchy

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. 2. Beat all the cake ingredients in a mixing bowl or a food processor until smooth. 3. Divide the mixture evenly between two 8-inch pans, greased and lined with oiled wax paper, and spread the surfaces level. 4. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes. Cakes should be well risen, browned and spring back when gently pressed with a ﬁngertip. 5. Leave the cakes for a few minutes, then loosen the edges and turn out onto a wire rack and peel off lining paper. Let cool. 6. Make the frosting. Put

butter and half the icing sugar in a mixing bowl, add dissolved coffee and beat until smooth. 7. Gradually mix in the remaining icing sugar until pale and creamy. (I added a little leftover brewed coffee to thin the icing to a spreadable consistency.) 8. Put one of the cakes on a serving plate, spread with half the frosting, then cover with the second cake. 9. Spread remaining frosting over the top. 10. Pipe or drizzle swirls of melted chocolate on top. NOTE: Cake can be stored in a tin for 2 or 3 days in a cool place.

streusel top. I mean a dessert cake that includes instant coffee among the ingredients not just in the batter but also the creamy icing. It’s “old-fashioned” because it calls for margarine instead of butter. That old-school approach might sound unappetizing to some, but many of today’s margarines have been reformulated to have no trans fats and lower saturated fat. And because it has a higher water content and aerates better, it actually makes a lighter, ﬂufﬁer cake. In her cookbook, Huntingdon recommends using round pans and going fairly light on the icing, with just a few dabs in between the

layers and not a whole lot on top. I used 8-inch square pans and doubled the icing recipe for a completely frosted cake. Melted chocolate is always fun to play around with when decorating a cake; if you make the cake toward the end of October, drizzle the melted chocolate in a spiderweb pattern to turn it into a spooky Halloween treat. To melt chocolate for drizzling, heat it gently in the microwave in short 15- to 30-second bursts, stirring in between with a fork. I don’t have a pastry bag, so I piped the hot chocolate on top of the cake using a plastic storage bag with a tiny piece of the corner snipped off.

medication in the same Dear Heloise: I found Anna way. Not everyone is afMaria’s comments on perfume sensitivities (it’s fected by an ailment in actually not an allergy) to the same manner. I wish be a bit simplistic. If only you good luck and good it were this easy to health because I “help myself”! I do suffer from allereverything in my gies, too. Perfume power to alleviate doesn’t bother me, my allergies, but but I wear a surgiperfume sensitivity cal mask to dust my doesn’t respond to furniture or vacuum allergy treatments. Hints from a room. — Heloise Heloise It’s a chemical senMore on perfume sitivity, which is a bit different. Dear Heloise: Perfume gives I’m a singer, and when me an immediate migraine people around me wear reaction. For me, it’s just a perfume, it makes me compound that is in some, cough and get a headache. but not all, perfumes. As It’s hard to perform when soon as I enter an ofﬁce, you’re coughing. Scented get on a bus, or enter an laundry products are imelevator and encounter this compound, I feel like possible for me. I can’t sleep on most hotel sheets, a mule kicked me at the base of my skull. I have and if I do, I wake up a to immediately vacate the couple of hours later with a splitting headache, a sore area, take medication, and hope that I won’t be incathroat, and a stuffy nose. I’ve found a list of hotels pacitated for the next few that have “allergy friendly hours with vomiting and rooms,” which should be dizziness. helpful. It simply isn’t a If it’s just a bit of perquestion of calling my doc- fume, I have a ﬁghting tor; I’ve done all this. Avoid- chance, but some people (men and women) seemance is the best option, so please, folks, help us out. — ingly take a bath in the Lynda S., in Kingston, New York stuff. Surprisingly, it’s Lynda, not everyone often young people. My responses to a particular advice is to think of others

and refrain from dousing oneself in buckets of scents. — Hedy W., in Laguna Woods, California Hedy, this is when a little bit goes a long way. I know that a migraine is very painful, but people who don’t know you don’t know that they’re about to trigger a migraine. So, perhaps the best solution is to either wear no perfume or use a light hand when applying a scent. — Heloise

Bridesmaid blues Dear Heloise: When my ﬁrst cousin asked me to be her bridesmaid, I was ﬂattered, until I saw the price tag on the dresses that she had selected. This didn’t include the shoes, handbags, etc. Please advise brides to: n Consider affordability when selecting dresses for bridesmaids.Keep in mind that besides the dress, there are other expenses n Understand that we probably won’t wear this style or color again, no matter what the salesperson says. — Tanya, in Oklahoma Send a hint to heloise@ heloise.com.

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Oct. 15, the 288th day of 2026. There are 77 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 15, 2017, actor and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted that women who had been sexually harassed or assaulted should write “Me too” as a status. Within hours, tens of thousands had taken up the #MeToo hashtag (using a phrase that had been introduced a decade earlier by social activist Tarana Burke). Also on this date: In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed French emperor, arrived on the British-ruled South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he spent the last 5½ years of his life in exile. In 1945, the former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed for treason. In 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to

have been executed. In 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall near the North Carolina-South Carolina coastal border as a Category 4 storm; Hazel was blamed for about 1,000 deaths in the Caribbean, 95 in the U.S. and 81 in Canada. In 1976, the first debate of its kind took place between vice presidential nominees. Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston. In 1991, despite sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, 52-48. In 1997, British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green twice drove a jetpowered car in the Nevada desert faster than the speed of sound, officially shattering the world’s land-speed record. In 2003, 11 people were killed and 70 were injured when a Staten Island ferry slammed into a maintenance pier. (The ferry’s pilot, who had blacked out at

the controls, later pleaded guilty to 11 counts of manslaughter.) In 2018, Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates before becoming a billionaire philanthropist who invested in conservation, space travel, arts and professional sports, died at age 65. Today’s Birthdays: Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Palmer is 81. Musician Richard Carpenter is 80. Film director Mira Nair is 69. Britain’s Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, is 67. Chef Emeril Lagasse is 67. Actor Dominic West is 57. R&B singer Ginuwine is 56. Singer-TV personality Keyshia Cole is 45. Former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua is 37. Actor Bailee Madison is 27. WNBA basketball player Lauren Betts is 23.

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things done will rival anyone who tries to compete with you. The more momentum you gain, the more energized you will become. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) Take a moment to rethink your plans before you open your wallet or schedule your day. Trying to fit in too much when you should be focusing on what's most important will be your downfall. GEMInI (May 21-June 20) It will be easy to lose sight of what needs your attention if you let your mind wander and your time be taken up by those who want something from you. cAncER (June 21-July 22) Interaction is highlighted. Network, gather information and connect to those who have something to offer, and steer clear of anyone trying to limit your freedom to be yourself. LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) Take time to think before you act. Hasty decisions will lead to domestic problems or expenses that can disrupt your plans. Choose to engage in activities that require you to learn something new. VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Take better care of yourself and those you love. Spending time sorting through personal differences will help resolve issues before they grow into something unmanageable. 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 Ann Landers said, “One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.” Earlier this week, we saw deals in which a balanced fit (both partners had the same number of cards in it) was a better trump suit than an unbalanced. And that will usually be the case. But one time when a 4-4 fit is not best occurs when the trump holding is weak, resulting in an inevitable loser or two, and there are discards available from the other two side suits for those losers if it is the third side suit. This is typically the case in a slam — as in this deal. When North opens one no-trump, South, with only a five-loser hand, should immediately be thinking about a slam. He uses Stayman and learns of the 4-4 spade fit. But rather than opt immediately for that suit as trumps, he sensibly shows his club suit first. North rebids three hearts to indicate values in that suit and, by inference, weak diamonds. After that, the auction gets a tad murky around the edges, but South should prefer his strong clubs to those pitiful spades. In six spades, North must lose one spade and one heart (and would go down

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To satisfy the owner’s privilege, PS Retail Sales, LLC will sell at public sale on October 26, 2026, the personal property in the below-listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 08:30 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified. PUBLIC STORAGE # 07025, 12320 I-10 Service Rd, New Orleans, LA 70128, (504) 224-9067 Time: 08:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 1010 - Patterson, Debra; 1023 - Mercadel, Terralicia; 1035 - green, Joey; 1047 - Kelly, Candy; 1066 - beaulieu, Byron; 1072 - Smith, Letha; 1104 - Mccorkle, Lawrence; 1110 - Patterson, Debra; 1112 - Schexnayder, Kentrice; 1200 - Spencer, Felicia; 1218 - Keelen, Jirsena; 1225 - Turner, LaToya; 1241 - Boykins, Tonya; 2006 - Lewis, Egeria; 2051 - julien, Taylor; 2106 - broadway, leah; 2514 - Baxter, George; 2528 - Dominique, Mikeisha; 2533 - Jacobs, Christopher; 2549 - Wright, Nyeemah; 2550 - Reed, Noel; 2566 - smith, Dawayne; 2585 - watts, Woodnisha; 2613 - Scott, Reginld; 3003 - holmes, Robert; 3061 - Congleton, Dan; 4014 - Horn, Jakia; 4018 Augustine, Erica; 4027 - Farley, Carnell; 4037 - Wiggins, Aperecio; A20 - LaFont, Jade; A22 - Whaley, Brooke; A24 - Summers, Teyonia; P004 - J- Vu Entertainment Sherman, Cheryl PUBLIC STORAGE # 68573, 7413 Saint Bernard Hwy, Arabi, LA 70032, (504) 317-1399 Time: 08:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 006 - Tortorich, Salvador; 026 - Major, Tracy; 034 - Danos, ElJay; 047 - Nelson, Lisa; 055 - Snyder, JoAnn; 084 Gauthier, Samantha; 159 - Clay, Kimyotta; B06 - Holderson, Jeremy; H09 - DeDe, Kendell PUBLIC STORAGE # 07120, 1850 Lapalco Blvd, Harvey, LA 70058, (504) 229-4188 Time: 09:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. A050 - griffin, Layla; A069 - Pierce, Codesia; A096 - Wilkins, Edwin; A101 - Wilson, Darrel; A130 - Easley, Michael; A155 - Jefferson, Ida; A309 - Mccreary, Sharon; A333 - Lewis, Charles; A412 - Nelson, Ebony; B035 - Martinez, Jose; D015 - Berry, Rojaunda; E011 - Perry, Shairean; E013 - Brown, rochonda; E029 - Inocencio, Franklin; E040 - Adams, Giselle; E059 - Mayfield, Ashley PUBLIC STORAGE # 68574, 9491 Highway 23, Belle Chasse, LA 70037, (504) 317-1546 Time: 09:15 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 107 - Friend, Joe; 112 - Fruge, Tony ; 210 - Riley, Micheal; 211 - Basigovac, Shance; 219 - French, Carrie; 257 - Tejada, Maria; 260 - Patrician, Management; 261 - Patrician, Management; 263 - Patrician, Management; 310 - Harris, Zachary ; 326 - Primm, Freddy; B114 - Trahan, Brady; B122 - Lindner, Terry ; B125 - Williams, Wanda; B127 - Brown, Kourtnie; B131 - VOIRON, Ellen; B211 - Patrician, Management; B244 - Brown, Kourtnie; C106 - Patrician, Management; C107 - Brown, Kourtnie; C230 - Bianchini, Mike; C306 - Bateman, Ronald ; C346 Baradell, Daniel PUBLIC STORAGE # 68575, 9541 Highway 23, Belle Chasse, LA 70037, (504) 500-3382 Time: 09:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 393 - Porche, Claudia; B52 - Basigovac, Shance PUBLIC STORAGE # 68578, 3301 Jean Lafitte Pkwy, Chalmette, LA 70043, (504) 584-4529 Time: 09:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 106 - Chittenden, Robert; 110 - Parsons, Waverly; 122 - Santos, Pedro; 234 - King, Tiyone; 238 - Washington, Ashley; 239 - Corkern, Jessica; 244 - Kersh, Nicholas; 312 - Williams, Edwin; 405 - Payne, Charlie; 412 - Mones, Alexis ; 425 - Roby, Corey; A138 - Jackson Jr, Shannon; A141 - Manzella, Lucia; A153 - Journee, Nichelle; A200 - Mitchell, Hasan; A227 - Oltmann, Kristine; A228 - Evans, Jenee; A230 - Nolan, Angel; A232 - Netter, Misunique; A240 - Aisola, Daisharia; A279 - Johnson, Dernell; A284 - Smith, Sade; A289 - Walters Jr. , Troy; B114 - Cox, Travis; B119 - Washington, Timothy; B138 - Linderman, Emily; B140 - Murphy, Latrenia; B212 - Arnold, James; B220 - Couvilier, Alicia; B226 - Manzella, Lucia; B302 - Casey, Kevin; B324 - Williams, Gerrin; X229 - Briggs, Yulisa; X232 - Miller, Ronmia; X303 - Smith, Maurice; X329 - Alfaro, Saray; X338 - Robinson, MyZandra PUBLIC STORAGE # 21704, 3000 Belle Chasse Hwy, Gretna, LA 70053, (504) 229-4180 Time: 10:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. B008 - van meter, stacie; B019 - Castleberry, Roy; B054 - Guillot, Ervin; B069 - Brown, Welton; C037 - Brown, Emory; C086 - Samuels, Christopher; C118 - Lacy, Shaunice; C155 - Mitchell, Nikia; C195 - Williams, Shalae; C236 - Oquinn, Tashika; C256 - Guerra, Mario; C279 - Jacobs, Saymone; C286 - thompson, Larry; D036 Dixon, Allen; D046 - Simonson, Nicole; D067 - Lopez, Leyla; D078 - Celestine, Trishanna; D084 - KINGSBURY, ASHLEIGH; E009 - Clofer, Adam; E031 - curtis, William; E068 - Lopez, Zavala; E078 - Solomon, Keyoka; E081 - saulter, Romione; F002 - Jackson, Kai; F013 - Dixon, Vileaner; F035 - bell, Endya; F051 - Caston, Willie; F082 - Jones, Rosla; F085 - Djabert, Alsafi; G033 - Thompson, Larry PUBLIC STORAGE # 68579, 2321 Belle Chasse Hwy, Gretna, LA 70056, (504) 384-7226 Time: 10:15 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 007 - Asevedo, Alexis; 025 - Milligan, Terrence; 058 - Johnson, Lesli; 178 - SEWELL, JANET; 193 - JUNEAU, KIRK; 248 - Riley, Tashanda; 290 - MONDELL, RUTHIE; 293 - Alhalteh, Ibrahim; 313 - Castle, Kathy; 396 Polumbo, Nathan; 58687 - Brumfield, Gwendolyn PUBLIC STORAGE # 68584, 64023 Highway 11, Pearl River, LA 70452, (985) 256-5551 Time: 10:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 121 - Brown, Barbara; 124 - Rantisi, Alysia; 130 - Baker, Shane; 206 - Talley, Candi; 219 - Sweet, Melissa; 302 - Rodriguez, Michael; 379 - Rodriguez, Michael; 410 - Juneau, Carol; 428 - Leza, Jose; A327 - lee, Haley; B107 - Richardson Wholesale, .; C229 - Tillison, Therone; C233 - Savoy, Ashton PUBLIC STORAGE # 68595, 606 Voters Rd, Slidell, LA 70461, (985) 265-9829 Time: 10:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 157 - Brown, Darnell; A118 - Magee, Gregory; A134 - PARKER, KEITH; A244 - Allen, Natashia; A259 - Williams, Carvell; A267 - HOBDEN, EILEEN; X306 - Smith, Shakara; X327 - IRVIN, NICOLE; X335 - Matthews, Belinda PUBLIC STORAGE # 68596, 1709 Gause Blvd W, Slidell, LA 70460, (985) 265-9890 Time: 11:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 102A - Frowner, Melissa; 415 - Kirsh, Kim; 425 - Crawford, Ashley; 616 - Martin, Stephanie; 701 - Kruebbe, Tony; C117 - Dismang, Alyssa; C120 - Allen, Donalle; C159 - Magee, Chellsea; C317 - baham, Anthony PUBLIC STORAGE # 68597, 2355 Gause Blvd E, Slidell, LA 70461, (985) 364-1884 Time: 11:15 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 125 - Robinson, Courtney; 136 - Crain, Clint; 206 - Cloe, Megan; 241 - martinez, timothy; 249 - DEVEREUX, DR. JACK; 331 - CRAWFORD, CHARLES; 411 - Cortijo, Jose; 504 - Thomas, Ronnie; 532 - WILLIAMS, SHARON; 641 - Thonn, Charles; A120 - Oneal, Cedriaun; A312 - Morgan, Jade; A321 - Sylvas, Connice PUBLIC STORAGE # 29222, 10010 I-10 Service Rd, New Orleans, LA 70127, (504) 224-9213 Time: 11:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 1052 - Chartain, Jasmine; 1066 - Corkern, Jessica J; 1159 - Parquet, Tonya ; 1170 - campbell, sakine; 2025 Shelton, Ferrell; 2050 - ross, miracle; 2072 - Madison, Sidney; 2105 - Williams, Spencer; 2119 - webb, quinniya; 2146 - Hugle, Kim; 2154 - Jones, Aliyah; 2240 - mayfield, Feicia; 3102 - Pierre, Victoria; 3104 - Jiles, Keandra; 3124 - jarreau, Derek; 3136 - Scott, Kashen; 3141 - Cotton, Claudette; 3210 - Gordon, Brechele; 3244 - Mitchell, Nahja; 3246 - Jefferson, Trina; 3275 - Richard, Joseph

To satisfy the owner’s privilege, PS Retail Sales, LLC will sell at public sale on October 26, 2026, the personal property in the below-listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 08:00 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified. PUBLIC STORAGE # 68836, 3334 W Airline Hwy, Reserve, LA 70084, (985) 236-4484 Time: 08:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0203 - Campbell, Ron; 0210 - Joseph, Ethel; 0227 - Sanders, Orlando; A115 - Thomas, Odessa; A202 - St Pierre, Darshiela; A218 - Ray, Shirah; A329 - Wright, Jeffrey; X243 - Ray, Shirah; Y240 - Parquet, Diondria; Y241 - Davis, Michelle; Y247 - Alexander, John; Y338 - Thornton, Raphael PUBLIC STORAGE # 20175, 3440 S Carrollton Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118, (504) 308-1583 Time: 09:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0003 - Gant, Jada; 0129 - Frazier, Eugene; 0162 - Pezzulo, Julia; 0205 - Leach, Jennifer; 0212 - Shores, Aaron; 0221 - Henry, Antoine; 0235 - Dollar, Larry; 0249 - Dalton, Saniyah; 0257 - Patterson, Isaac; 0264 - Slater, Jade Pleasant; 0271 - Villegas, Maria; 0276 - Casby, Christopher; 0282 - Erskine, Tiffany; 0456 - Martin, Kimberly; 0460 - Graves, Nina; 0481 - Turner, Courtney; 0503 - Sarro, Jacqueline; 0546 - Rogers, Jermaine; 0611 - Tapp, Giselle; 0645 - Smith, Cordai; 0843 - Jones, Ashley; 0956 - Jones, LaTavia; 0973 - Jackson, Elston; 1007 Portley, Trinity; 1010 - Valadez, Alana; 1065 - means, colette; 1126 - Brooks, Renyana; 1164 - Victor, DeAri PUBLIC STORAGE # 21802, 2930 Clearview Pkwy, Metairie, LA 70006, (504) 229-4204 Time: 09:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. A025 - LEDUFF, HILLERY; B109 - HALL, GEMENA; B173 - Stelly, Lori; B252 - Banura, Mark; B255 - marich, Rodney; B257 - Beverly, Courtney; B281 - Allen, Beverly; B288 - Gagnon, Blake; B292 - Ramirez, David; C340 - Woods, LaQuana; C415 - VIOLA, JARED; C474 - Swoffer, Jodie; C478 - Porter, Troy; C492 - Stumon, Reinald; C518 - mccann, Judon; C556 - Johnson, Joseph D PUBLIC STORAGE # 68580, 306 Market St, Hammond, LA 70401, (985) 403-4579 Time: 09:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 048 - Johnson, Eddie; 052 - Watson, Justin; 098 - Matthews, Tiffany; 119 - Jackson, Jane; 129 - Clemmons, Eric; 161 - Escobar, Luis; 165 - Brimmer, Samia; 195 - Poche, Ahmad PUBLIC STORAGE # 22055, 34570 LA Highway 16, Denham Springs, LA 70706, (225) 665-5770 Time: 10:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0163 - Bordelon, Eden; 0248 - Wilkinson, Gage; 0523 - Bell, Tyeon; 0644 - Baker, Jay; 4002 - Johnson, Chris; B01 - Showers, Edvante; B27 - Jefferson, Dillon; D15 - church, Amanda PUBLIC STORAGE # 68582, 2820 New Highway 51, LaPlace, LA 70068, (985) 304-8014 Time: 10:15 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 133 - Perkins, Christan; 208 - Williams, Nykia; 214 - labranxh, Schron; 224 - Cornish, Taquincion; 236 - Poe, Jailynn; 240 - Miller, James; A113 - Campbell-Washington, Donielle; A126 - Irvin, Easter; A133 - Lee, Teyondra; A136 - Williams, Brittany; A229 - Morgan, Melisa; A232 - Edwards, Aje; B127 - Adams, Alfred Edmund; C313 Adams, Alfred Edmund; C342 - Perrilloux, Shannon; C406 - Fenderson, Kardell; C414 - King, Demetris; C433 - Thompson, Larry PUBLIC STORAGE # 23799, 2257 S Range Ave, Denham Springs, LA 70726, (225) 468-5877 Time: 10:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0226 - Stithem, Jimmy; 0312 - Dorsey, Ronisha; 0424 - King, Sha’Coria; 0431 - Green, David; 0444 - Allen, Kenreco; 0518 - Watkins, Rylee; 0524 - White, Mary; 0604 - Frazier, Taniya; 0705 - Noland, Deja; 0718 - Wales, Michael; 0914 - mack, samantha; 1006 - ortiz, Nicole PUBLIC STORAGE # 25740, 4507 Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70125, (504) 308-1275 Time: 10:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 1086 - Bonilla, Julio; 2017 - Domino, Tameka; 2145 - Wesley, Lindsay; 3014 - WEAVER, CHRIS; 3024 - Noel, Brittney; 3037 - Edwards, Leroy; 3065 - White, Dwayne; 3123 - Davenport, Brittney; 3168 - Brown, John; 3203 Taylor, Renae; 3232 - Lauden, Matthew; 3257 - bell, Melvin PUBLIC STORAGE # 26983, 5730 Citrus Blvd, Elmwood, LA 70123, (504) 930-4129 Time: 11:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 2034 - Pennington, Edward; 2042 - Julian, Lace; 2063 - Mahfouz, Melanie; 2074 - Ocon, Jessica; 2231 - Downs, Victoria; 2317 - Payne, LyJean; 2409 - Hiblisscus Herb Co. LLC Jones, Laketra; 2508 - Franklin, Tarell; 2621 - Jones, Taja; 2708 - Gwendolyn, Spurlock k; 2800 - Huxen, Tiffany; 3019 - Lay, Stephanie; 3026 - Stewart, Vincent; 3071 - Williams, Mariah; 3110 - summers III, Warren; 3408 - Jones, Martoria; 3828 - Green, Teryelle; N1045 - Caprera, Rachel; S1013 - batiste, Jerome; S1015 - May, Mary; S1035 - Sylve, Christina; S1061 - Sylve, Christina; S1069 - Jenkins, Rose; S1120 - Humphries, Claude PUBLIC STORAGE # 68583, 12843 Highway 90, Luling, LA 70070, (985) 240-3953 Time: 11:15 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 144 - Zeller, Anthony; 233 - Pitre, Rachel; 249 - Richard, Shane; 334 - Wesley, Destiny; B117 - August, Thorn; B143 - Young, Dean; C113 - Samuel, Rodney; C124 - Mendoza, Kasen; C327 - Jacobs, Brandi PUBLIC STORAGE # 26984, 2820 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70119, (504) 584-4619 Time: 11:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 1025 - vanderpool, James; 1043 - Thomas, Shereece; 1048 - Matute, Eric; 1062 - ruiz, Nakeshia; 2072 - Parker, Corey; 2112 - Yarbrough, Thelma; 2149 - Blackmon, Shaterra; 3003 - Leville, Jacob; 3053 - Thomas, Sunea; 3100 - Cook, Christopher; 3110 - In & Out Barber & Beauty Salon Mcswain, Ken; 3121 - DuConge, Jaionshel; 4074 - Williams, Terrance; 4155 - ROBERTS JACKSON, Myrna; 5023 - Russell, Derence; 5061 - Wales, Kizzy; 5149 - Patin, Alicia PUBLIC STORAGE # 28188, 3900 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, LA 70115, (504) 224-9167 Time: 12:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0002 - Cazenave, Stephen; 0008 - Li, Leo; 0170 - Elliott, James; 0309 - Augustin, Takiera; 0350 - Omalley, Madison; 0663 - Jackson, Steve PUBLIC STORAGE # 29112, 1901 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 308-1566 Time: 12:30 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 1210 - Love, Regina; 2102 - Robinson, Lakeitha; 2204 - Beaulieu, Derrick; 4119 - FIX, SAMANTHA; 4215 - One stick thats it lab, LLC Cheatham, Ameshia; 5206 - Loupe, Marty; 5212 - Lawson, Madison; 5406 - Okoroji, Onyeka; 6201 - Beamon, Kayla; 6304 - Augustine, Tanya; 6319 - Baptiste, Keyanna ; 6409 - Lumpkin, Darnisha; M103 - Chenault, Alexander; M110 - Phillips, Terrell; M303 - Polk, Breanna; M317 - Batty, Jon; M606 - IQ KNOWLEDGE JUNKIE Dixon, Kenneth PUBLIC STORAGE # 78084, 3701 Highway 90 W, Avondale, LA 70094, (504) 317-1534 Time: 01:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0119 - Boudreaux, Julie; 0124 - Hicks, Nicole; 0136 - Guillot, Tabathy ; 0229 - Breaux, Ashley; 1096 - Cawyer, Karen; 1131 - Funches, Brian; 1164 - JONES, JUSTIN; 2013 - Augustine, Fernell; 2162 - Drezek, Katherine; 3011 - Ragas, Vania; P37 - Lebouef, Nolan

Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Retail Sales, LLC, 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080.

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Celebrate oystermen, ﬁshermen, families and community members who shape the Louisiana seafood industry at 8245 W. Judge Perez Drive. The festival grounds will feature raw and chargrilled oysters, food vendors, an art market and live music from acts like Tidal Wave Brass Band and HaSizzle. Admission starts at $5 online and $10 at the gate; VIP packages are available online. louisianaoysterculturefestival.com.

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A festivalgoer shades themselves with a NOLA Funk Fest fan at Spanish Plaza in 2025. This year’s event is moving slightly downriver. Photo by Sophia Germer. Music writer Keith Spera has the lineup on Page 6.

wooden boat festival Over 100 classic watercrafts, live music, seafood and a children’s play area will take over the Madisonville waterfront along the Tchefuncte River on Saturday and Sunday. The 35th annual event from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. is hosted by the Maritime Museum Louisiana, 133 Mabel Drive. Adult admission is $15 for one day. maritime museumlouisiana.org.

praise fest Regional community choirs, youth ensembles and gospel artists unite multifaiths through spiritual music, prayer and fellowship from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday at 501 Moss St. along Bayou St. John. praisefestnola.com.

ghosts in the oaks New Orleans City Park’s Botanical Garden and McDonogh Legacy Gardens, 7 Victory Ave., are getting a little spooky starting 5 p.m. Thursday. Through Sunday, guests can trick-or-treat through the Halloween displays, ride the carousel, enjoy live entertainment and experience the magical lights among the live oaks. Tickets are $30. neworleanscitypark.com.

boo at the zoo Visit the Audubon Zoo, 6500 Magazine St., during regular hours Friday through Sunday for the annual family-friendly Halloween celebration. Children can wear costumes, explore the zoo, trickor-treat and enjoy ghost-themed animal enrichment activities. Admission is the standard zoo ticket or membership. audubonnatureinstitute.org.

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Several nearby charming small towns offer seasonal events, more BY CAITIE ZEILMAN Staff writer

There’s an art to a great day trip: a short drive, a taste of somewhere new and an ending that puts you back in your own bed for the night. As temperatures ﬁnally start to drop around Louisiana, it’s prime time to hit the road. While there are plenty of fall festivities happening around New Orleans, our neighboring towns have packed seasonal calendars of their own. If you’re ready to get out of town for a day, here are four easy day trips worth taking this fall.

St. Francisville Drive time: 1 hour, 45 minutes Located 30 minutes north of Baton Rouge, St. Francisville is known for its small-town charm. Stroll local boutiques, bookstores and antique stores for fall ﬁnds before enjoying lunch at a local cafe. Basel’s Market opened its new location inside a renovated historic home earlier this year. The charming spot serves a variety of sandwiches, salads and more. Don’t skip a visit to one of America’s most haunted historic homes, The Myrtles plantation. The grounds are open to the public, with guided tours available both day and night. Don’t miss: The Witches Ride of St. Francisville Witches take over the town Oct. 22 on bicycles, broomcycles and other decorated rides. Grab your costume

to jewelry. There’s also a children’s village and a food court. covingtonthreeriversartfestival.com.

Cajun Country Beyond Lafayette, there are lots of must-visit towns in Acadiana — each with their own flavor. Head over to Breaux Bridge, the Crawfish Capital of the World, for an authentic Cajun experience. Check out the city’s official self-guided walking tour to hit all of the highlights. It starts off with a scenic view of Bayou Teche and weaves through downtown’s historic buildings. Stop at Cafe Syndie Mae or Buck & Johnny’s Restaurant for a bite to eat. Head a little farther north FILE PHOTO BY JILL MOORE and check out Arnaudville, Bike-riding witches will be everywhere next week in St. Francisville for the Witches Ride. where bayous Teche and Fuselier meet. Enjoy a meal along visit one of the eight casinos and enjoy an evening of shopthe bayou at The Little Big While you’re there, stop at along the water or take a spin Barley Oak for a drink or Rip’s Cup. ping, treats, prizes and more. on a ride at Paradise Pier Fun Also: Bayou Teche Brewing on the Lake for a meal with a witchesridesf.org. Park. and Cajun Saucer are worth view. Biloxi/Ocean Springs, Miss. Don’t miss: Fall Fest a visit in Arnaudville once Just a bit farther north of Head to the Biloxi Town the business recovers from Mandeville, downtown CovDrive time: 1 hour, 30 minutes Green between 10 a.m. and a recent fire. See updates on The best part about this day ington is the perfect place to 5 p.m. Saturday for familyFacebook. trip option is that it offers a stroll and shop. Take a look friendly fun. The free event Don’t miss: Tunes on the Teche: little bit of everything. inside the newly renovated Chili Cookoff Head to Ocean Springs for a features food trucks, costume Southern Hotel, where the The St. Bernard Catholic laid-back, beachy atmosphere contests, pumpkin decorating lobby is known as “Covington’s stations, a bounce house and Church will host a chili cookand stroll quaint streets lined living room.” more. coastalmississippi.com/ off from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. with shops and restaurants. Did you know? Southern Living events/fall-fest. 31 in Breaux Bridge. AdverDesignated golf cart parking named Covington the “Best spaces makes the vehicles a Small Town in Louisiana” tised as “a true taste of Breaux The northshore great way to zip around the Don’t miss: Covington Three Bridge culture,” the event will town. Rentals are available. Rivers Art Festival feature music, local vendors, Head across the PontcharVisit the Tatonut Donut Shop train to Mandeville and Over 200 artists from across kids activities and more. St. for a popular local treat; it’s the nation will take over Martin Parish’s Facebook has take a scenic walk along the worth the wait. several blocks in downtown details. lakefront. Beautiful Spanish Looking for something a moss-draped oak trees provide Covington on Nov. 14-15 to dislittle more fast paced? Cross plenty of shade and make a play and sell everything from Email Caitie Zeilman at the bridge over to Biloxi and gorgeous photo op. paintings and woodworking czeilman@theadvocate.com.

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Johnny Depp, from left, Dustin Hoffman and Richard Gladstein on the set of ‘Finding Neverland’

NOMA closing out series with ‘Finding Neverland’ screening, Q&A with award-winning producer Inspired by true events, the film ready had employed a bit of poetic “Finding Neverland” tells the story license. Allan Knee, the playwright, of how the iconic tale openly admitted he structured it as a of “Peter Pan” came to fairytale version of the making of a be. It’s also the last film fairytale. in the 2026 Producer’s Overall, he stuck to the facts, but Choice film series at the when it was convenient to intensify New Orleans Museum of feelings or make it easier for people Art, curated by awardonstage, he wasn’t averse to mixing Leslie winning producer Meryl things up a bit. For instance, Knee only Cardé Poster. included four of Sylvia’s five children to At the Tuesday screen- cut down the number of people onstage. He also had Barrie meet Sylvia as a ing, the film’s producer Richard Gladwidow. In fact, she was still married stein will be front and center as Poster at the time, but the writer didn’t want interviews him, and he fields questions to get caught up in the travails of that from the audience. marriage. The essence of what hapBefore playwright J.M. Barrie (played by Johnny Depp) penned “Peter pened is based in fact, how Barrie fell Pan,” he had been dealin love with Sylvia’s boys and figured out a plot deing with a bit of a creative ‘FINDING rut. His latest play, “Little to keep them young NEVERLAND’ vice Mary,” had only moderate forever, and “never grow success when it premiered SCREENING up.” at London’s Wyndham’s The cast of “Finding Theatre under producer Followed by a Q&A Neverland” is a who’s Charles Frohman (Dustin who of Oscar winners and with the film’s Hoffman). nominees. Casting the right producer Richard One day, while writing in person in each role was a Gladstein Kensington Gardens, howconundrum, Gladstein said, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and even the main characever, Barrie meets Sylvia Wednesday Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winter was up for grabs. Barrie was a very deep character, slet) and her four boys, and Lapis Center for the his relationship with them Arts in the New Orleans the producer said, and Depp fit the bill as someone eventually inspires him to Museum of Art, who had a complex inner write “Peter Pan.” 1 Collins Diboll Circle life. The biographical stage Tickets at noma.org Some of Gladstein’s other play “The Man Who Was picks, however, required Peter Pan” inspired Glada bit of discussion. For instance, who stein to turn it into a film, even though would play Sylvia’s mother in the film? he’s not a fan of Peter Pan. “I was drawn to it, because at its core, It was a pivotal role, as she would beit’s all about where one finds inspiracome the guardian of the boys, along with Barrie, after Sylvia’s untimely tion,” he said. death right around the time “Peter Pan” Gladstein had produced multiple Quentin Tarantino films. He had already hit the stage. “I had certain well-known actresses in been nominated for The Academy’s mind for that role,” Gladstein said. “My Best Picture of the Year as the producer behind “The Cider House Rules.” first thought was Joan Plowright, the Tony and Golden Globe award-winning He had produced other films like “The actress. I also thought Judi Dench Bourne Identity” and “She’s All That.” (He again would be nominated for Best would be right for the part. (Dench, apart from being an Oscar-winning acPicture on “Finding Neverland.”) “The Man Who Was Peter Pan” altress had been playing the part of M in

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the James Bond ﬁlms since 1995.) “But I have to tell you, it was Meryl (Poster) who didn’t agree with either of those suggestions, and instead wanted Julie Christie. (Christie won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1965 for the ﬁlm “Darling”). So, we reached out to her, and she said yes.” At the time, Poster was co-president

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NOLA Funk Fest planning unique collaborations and a big Allen Toussaint tribute BY KEITH SPERA

ebrating southwest Louisiana, is on the Palm Lawn. Funk Fest is a production of the Louisiana Music & HeriIn its fourth year, NOLA Funk Fest has found a new tage Experience, the immerhome along the downtown sive museum planned for the New Orleans riverfront this River District development. weekend. In keeping with the collabBut its commitment to creorative spirit of New Orleans and Louisiana music, several ative combinations of mostly marquee musicians will make local musicians remains unmultiple appearances in varichanged. Previously staged in Spanish ous conﬁgurations throughout Plaza, the three-day the weekend. 2026 festival scoots a Anders Osborne is short distance downpart of the big Allen Toussaint tribute on river to Audubon Saturday. On Sunday, Aquarium Riverfront Osborne will play Park along the Missishis own set with felsippi River between Canal and St. Louis low guitarist Jackie streets. Greene, then likely pop Toussaint The main AOS and in during legendary NOTCF stages are back-toMeters bassist George Porter back, facing the park’s Great Jr.’s “Supa Set.” Lawn and Kohlmeyer Lawn, Widespread Panic percusrespectively. The Pass the sionist Domingo “Sunny” Torch Stage, showcasing Ortiz and keyboardist JoJo younger bands and musicians, Hermann are essentially this is between the aquarium and year’s artists-in-residence. the river. The Cajun Village, Two weeks before Widespread with cooking demonstrations Panic headlines the LSU New and cultural conversations cel- Orleans Lakefront Arena for Staff writer

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George Porter Jr. will close out the 2026 NOLA Funk Fest with a ‘Supa Set.’

Irma Thomas will take part in onstage collaborations over the weekend.

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A collection of musicians perform during a tribute to renowned drummer Russell Batiste Jr. during the inaugural NOLA Funk Fest in 2023.

two nights on Halloween weekend, Ortiz and Hermann are slated to sit in with multiple acts at Funk Fest, including Galactic on Friday. The music starts each day at noon and winds down at 9:30 p.m. Beyond the festival itself, Funk Fest presents “Rock the Rafters: A Cajun and Creole Celebration” on Thursday at Tipitina’s with the Lost Bayou Ramblers, CC Adcock & The Lafayette Marquis with special guest Joel Savoy, and Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas with Lil’ Nathan. Tickets are $22 plus fees. “Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire” is a midnight show Friday at Tipitina’s featuring Marcus Machado, Bru Bruser and Eric Bolivar with special guests Stanton Moore, Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts, Jen Hartswick, Chali 2na, Tony Hall and Jake Eckert. Tickets are $30 plus fees.

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Keith Spera SOUND CHECK

The 2026 NOLA Funk Fest along the riverfront is this weekend’s main music event, but the clubs are also busy around town.

NOLATET ALBUM RELEASE FRIDAY, SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO As far as improvisational modern jazz quartets in New Orleans go, the roster of Nolatet is tough to beat: bassist James Singleton, drummer Johnny Vidacovich, vibraphonist Mike Dillon and pianist Brian Haas. Singleton and Vidacovich made their bones with local ensemble Astral Project, active for nearly 50 years. Dillon and Haas are more recent New Orleans transplants who are now integral to the scene. As Nolatet, they recently released their third album, “Somethin’ To Relax With” (RPF Records/Royal Potato Family). They recorded the album’s six original compositions during two soldout 2025 shows at the LowDown jazz club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “Our specialty is collective improvisation, and as a band we gravitate more towards creative, improvised music than sticking to charts,” Singleton said in a news release. “So when it came time to record these songs, we made the decision to do it live in front of an audience.” As Haas explained, “I think the kinetic energy of a live audience makes for a more energetic, riskier album.” Nolatet will perform songs from “Somethin’ to Relax With” — in the spirit of improvisation, not exactly like they were performed on the album — at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Friday at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro. Tickets are $40.

OTHER NOTEWORTY SHOWS THURSDAY The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off its “Market Nights” series of concerts at the New Orleans Jazz & Blues

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Flagboy Giz Market with a collaboration with Flagboy Giz, the Wild Tchoupitoulas Black Masking Indian whose music combines funk, brass, hip-hop and bounce with traditional chants and rhythms. Tickets start at $38. On the eve of NOLA Funk Fest, the festival presents “Rock the Rafters: A Cajun and Creole Celebration” at Tipitina’s with the Lost Bayou Ramblers, CC Adcock & the Lafayette Marquis with special guest Joel Savoy, and Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas with Lil’ Nathan. Tickets are $22 plus fees. Adcock Gov’t Majik, the “Dirty South Afro-tech Arkestra,” throws its annual “Felabration” celebration of Afro-pop legend Fela Kuti at the Broad-

side with special guests Aurelien Barnes on trumpet and vocals, and Stanton Moore on drums. Tickets are $15. Blues-based guitarist Marc Stone stages “A Funky Songwriter Summit” at Chickie Wah Wah featuring Lilli Lewis, Joe Marcinek, Pat Smith, Keiko Komaki, Megan Martinez, Sean Carey and Terry Scott Jr. Advance tickets start at $20 plus fees. Modern jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Victor Goines, a longtime member of the Wynton Marsalis Sextet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, leads his own quartet at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 plus fees.

FRIDAY After the ﬁrst day of the NOLA Funk Fest, the festival hosts a late-night show at Tipitina’s starting at midnight. Dubbed “Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire,” the show features Marcus Machado, Bru Bruser, and Eric Bolivar with special guests Stanton Moore, Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts, Jen Hartswick, Chali 2na,Tony Hall and Jake Eckert. Tickets are $30 plus fees. R&B star K. Michelle brings hits like “Can’t Raise a Man” and “V.S.O.P.” to The Fillmore. The Memphis native boasts three No. 1 albums on Billboard R&B charts, and she gained further fame on VH1’s “Love & Hip-Hop” franchise and later “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.”

After winning the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, classically trained jazz pianist Eric Lewis shared stages with the likes of Wynton Marsalis and Elvin Jones. Lewis now bills himself as ELEW “The Top Professor” and specializes in a “Rockjazz” synthesis of jazz improvisation, classical technique and rock. He’ll be joined by New Orleans drumming master Herlin Riley and bassist Max Moran at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Snug Harbor. Tickets are $50 plus fees. DJ Soul Sister hosts an ’80s-themed funk/soul/R&B dance party at Tipitina’s called “No Parking On the Dance Floor.” Tickets are $15. Instead of a weekend-long festival, Gretna Fest organizers are staging a monthlong series of Saturday concerts at the Riverfront Amphitheater in downtown Gretna. This weekend’s “Gretna Festin” headliner is Shane Smith & the Saints, with Them Ol’ Ghosts opening at 5 p.m.

SUNDAY The free “Nickel-a-Dance” Sunday afternoon series at Snug Harbor presents trumpeter Jamil Sharif and his New Orleans Extravaganza at 3 p.m. Later on Sunday, Snug Harbor hosts the Desert Nudes — Andre Bohren on guitar, vocals, lap steel and percussion, John Paul Carmody on guitars and vocals, and Dave Pomerleau on bass and vocals — with their harmony-rich cowboy songs at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $30.

TUESDAY Trumpeter Wendell Brunious is a New Orleans jazz stalwart and a staple at Preservation Hall whose playing is as sharp as his suits. Brunious is battling cancer, so Snug Harbor is hosting a special beneﬁt for him on Tuesday. Instead of two separate shows, the beneﬁt will consist of one set starting at 7:30 p.m. featuring a host of Brunious’s friends and fellow musicians. They include Mark Braud, Bruce Brackman, Roderick Paulin, Freddie Lonzo, Meghan Swartz,Aron Lambert,Tom Hook and John Boutté. Tickets are $40. Soccer Mommy and Snail Mail bring a combination of indie rock solo projects to The Joy Theater after touring with indie rock darlings like Phoebe Bridgers, Paramore and Mitski. Tickets start at $40. Email Keith Spera at kspera@ theadvocate.com.

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Previously staged in Spanish Plaza, the three-day 2026 NOLA Funk Fest scoots a short distance downriver to Audubon Aquarium Riverfront Park along the Mississippi River.

Galactic and their longtime feature singer Anjelika ‘Jelly’ Joseph, left, are set to peform over the weekend at NOLA Funk Fest. STAFF FILE PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER

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The Brass-a-Holics, Jourdan Thibodeaux, Soul Project and Robert Mercurio and Craig Klein’s Funkstication are also Friday.

SATURDAY Three-day Funk Fest weekend passes and single-day tickets are available at general admission and VIP levels. Louisiana residents receive a discount. A three-day general admission pass for local residents is $121, including fees. A single-day ticket for Louisiana residents is $50 with fees. Prices increase at the gate. Discounted tickets are available for students, teachers, ﬁrst responders, military and healthcare workers. Go to nolafunkfest.com for details and a link to purchase tickets.

The 90 minutes allotted Saturday’s closing “Tribute to Allen Toussaint” hardly seems like enough time to accommodate the many special performers slated to salute one of the giants of New Orleans music. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame pianist, producer and songwriter died in 2015 but his legacy lives on. Members of the Allen Toussaint Orchestra will serve as the “house band” for the tribute, backing the likes of Irma Thomas — who recorded a slew of classic singles written and/or produced by Toussaint — Ivan Neville, Davell Crawford, Cyril Neville, Deacon John, John Boutte, Neal Francis, FRIDAY Anders Osborne, John “Papa” Gros, David TorkThe members of Friday closer Gaanowsky and Elaine Foster. Also on Saturday, contemporary lactic, slated for 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on the main AOS Great Lawn Stage, were Cajun band the Lost Bayou Ramblers will once young upstarts learning their les- re-create its Grammy-winning colsons from old Meters albums and late laboration with the Louisiana Philharmonic nights at Benny’s Blues Bar Uptown. Orchestra. Thirty years later, Galactic is one of Keyboardists Neal Francis and Jojo HerNew Orleans’ signature bands, rooted mann, after appearing the previous day in funk but with elements of jazz, soul as special guests, will each perform and more (i.e. Galactic’s excellent “Au- their own sets on Saturday. The trombone rock-funk band Bondience With the Queen” collaboration with Irma Thomas). erama will be joined by drummer/singer The force-of-nature that is Anjelika “Jel- Omari Neville and J and the Causeways singer/keyboardist Jordan Anderson. Bassly” Joseph has been Galactic’s featured vocalist for several years now. At Funk ist Tony Hall’s band will be beefed up by Fest, Galactic will also be augmented R&B trio Mahogany Blue. by Widespread Panic keyboardist Jojo CJ Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band, Hermann and percussionist Domingo “Sunny” Slugger and the Neville Sons are also on Ortiz. Saturday. Funk Fest’s Friday roster also inSUNDAY cludes the Ivan Neville-led Dumpstaphunk; southwest Louisiana soul singer Marc The ﬁnal act of the 2026 NOLA Funk Broussard; the New Orleans Legacy Coalition, Fest is, appropriately, bassist George whose second-generation musicians Porter Jr. of legendary New Orleans funk will be joined onstage by their fathers; band The Meters. and the New Orleans Suspects with special But this won’t be a regular Porter set guest trombonist “Big” Sam Williams and with his Runnin’ Pardners. trumpeter/vocalist Jennifer Hartswick. This “Supa Set” spans such special

STAFF FILE PHOTO BY SOPHIA GERMER guests as Porter’s fellow Meter Cyril Neville, Galactic drummer Stanton Moore, Jojo Hermann, Sunny Ortiz, Eddie Roberts, Jen Hartswick, Chali 2na, Mark Mullins and Craig Klein. Other featured acts on Sunday include the Cuban party funk of CimaFunk; Anders Osborne with fellow guitarist Jackie Green; contemporary soul singer Erica Falls with rapper Chali 2na and fast-rising guitar hero Marcus Machado; New Or-

leans piano phenom River Eckert, who just turned 17 and will present a history of New Orleans piano; southwest Louisiana swamp rock ’n’ soul guitarist CC Adcock & the Lafayette Marquis; the Breaks; Big Chief Juan Pardo’s Tribal Gold; and the Original Pinettes Brass Band. Email Keith Spera at kspera@ theadvocate.com.

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The Crescent City Chamber Music Festival offers free concerts to the public. This year’s event kicks off Thursday. PROVIDED PHOTO BY MOUTON MEDIA

In a digital world, free N.O. Chamber Music Fest is analog BY DEAN M. SHAPIRO

poser and virtuoso on the bandoneon — an accordionlike bellows instrument best-known in tango dancing. Concerts will feature masterpieces Before jazz came into being, New Orleans’ earliest inhabitants were enter- by Benjamin Britten, Pyotr Ilyich tained by the works of some of Europe’s Tchaikovsky, Antonin Dvorák, Johannes Brahms, Maurice Ravel, Aaron Copgreatest classical composers. That love for classical music has conland, Dmitri Shostakovich and Joaquin Turina, as well as 30 artists on a tinued to the present day, and wide range of wind, string and since August 2016, it has been keyboard instruments, many of performed annually at the Creswhom are members of the Louicent City Chamber Music Festisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, val, which is Thursday through along with the Ensemble-inOct. 25. Residence Manhattan Chamber Founded by Algiers native and Players from New York City. violist Luke Fleming, the festi“People are surrounded by val offers seven free concerts at Fleming so much digital heaviness and five venues. artificiality in these often-suf“The selections performed at this year’s festival offer a reffocating times,” Fleming said. “I believe they will find that uge from cellphones, social meour concerts transport them to dia and artificial intelligence,” a place of not only peace and said Fleming, who is also the fesserenity, but also excitement tival’s artistic director. “Today’s and renewed inspiration. This technology cannot replicate the year’s theme, ‘Music That Cuts authenticity of a classical music Jofre Through the Noise,’ celebrates concert performed by brilliant the pure and meaningful experience of artists, one that moves audiences at a appreciating beautiful music, free of particular moment, in a particular setdistractions.” ting.” Closing out the festival will be CopAmong the featured soloists are Grammy Award-winning clarinetist land’s “Appalachian Spring” as a tribute Mark Dover, of the Manhattan Chamber to the 250th anniversary of the founding Players, and JP Jofre, a renowned com- of the United States. Contributing writer

“I can’t think of a piece that’s more ap- an evening of tango-inspired chamber propriate for the anniversary,” Fleming music; 7 p.m., Recital Hall, LSU New Orleans Performing Arts Center, 2000 said. Lakeshore Drive. As he has done at previous festivals, SUNDAY: “A Celebration of Strings” Fleming will give informal preconcert — Dvorák’s String Quintet and Tchaitalks and take questions from the audience 30 minutes prior to most of the kovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” perconcerts. formed by the Manhattan Chamber Festival musicians also will once again Players; 4 p.m., St. Charles Avenue perform educational and community Presbyterian Church, 1545 State St. concerts throughout greater New OrTUESDAY: Popular brewery concert featuring classical music paired with leans at schools, hospitals, retirement beer flights in a relaxed, informal atmocommunities and other nonprofit organizations, continuing a tradition that has sphere; 7 p.m., Urban South Brewery, brought hundreds of live performances 1645 Tchoupitoulas St. to audiences beyond the concert hall. WEDNESDAY: Grammy Award-winning For information, visit crescentcity clarinetist Mark Dover joins members of the Manhattan Chamber Players and chambermusicfestival.com. other festival artists in his own speCRESCENT CITY cially curated chamber music program; 7 p.m., Recital Hall, LSUNO PerformCHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ing Arts Center. OCT. 23: The Romantic Era — Music All concerts in New Orleans by Shostakovich, Turina and Brahms, THURSDAY: Benjamin Britten’s “Simple performed by the Manhattan Chamber Symphony” and “Lachrymae” and Players; 7 p.m., Dixon Concert Hall, TuTchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings,” featuring the Manhattan Chamber lane University, 68 Newcomb Circle. Players and members of the Louisiana OCT. 25: 11th season finale concert — Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Ravel’s “Tzigane,” vocal chamber muJoshua Gersen; 7 p.m., Trinity Episcosic by Bridge, Chausson and Respigni and Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” pal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave. performed by the Manhattan Chamber FRIDAY: Argentinian bandoneonist and Players; 4 p.m., Rayne Memorial United composer JP Jofre joins members of Methodist Church, 3900 St. Charles Ave. the Manhattan Chamber Players for

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