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ELECTION 2026
ICY CHAOS
Two more candidates exit race for Senate
Rural East Carroll Parish endures shattered trees, trapped people, prison break during winter storm
State Sen. Miguez shifts focus to congressional seat
BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer
The impact of U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow’s decision to challenge U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy — with President Donald Trump’s endorsement — continued to reverberate Tuesday as two more candidates dropped out of the Senate race. State Sen. Blake Miguez said he would run instead for the 5th Congres“When Donald sional District seat that Letlow is vacating, while St. Trump endorsed Tammany Parish Council Letlow, it took member Kathy Seiden said all the air out she would exit the race and of the room. All endorse Letlow. the attention State Rep. Julie Emerson, R-Carencro, announced two immediately weeks ago that Letlow’s enwent to Letlow. try into the Senate election She becomes had prompted her to get out. the prohibitive Letlow jumped in on Jan. favorite if you 20 after receiving Trump’s coveted endorsement. look at the “When Donald Trump enpolls.” dorsed Letlow, it took all the ROBERT COLLINS, air out of the room. All the attention immediately went Dillard University to Letlow,” said Robert Colprofessor of urban lins, a professor of urban studies and public studies and public policy at policy Dillard University. “She becomes the prohibitive favorite if you look at the polls.” As The Times-Picayune | The Advocate reported Monday, three recently released polls show Letlow defeating Cassidy in a head-to-head matchup. Cassidy’s own survey showed him trailing her, 46%-40%, though Cassidy’s campaign says he
STAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON
An Entergy utility truck works on lines along Harding Street in Lake Providence on Sunday. BY AIDAN McCAHILL Staff writer
Zachary Frasier and his wife were driving down a street in Lake Providence last Friday when something white drifted across the road. It was around 10 p.m. and pitch black, so he pulled over and spotted a bag lying in the street. The 32-year-old Frasier was about to turn in after a day of delivering food and water to people across East Carroll Parish. It was almost a week
after a crippling ice storm shattered trees, trapped people in their homes and left nearly everyone in the parish without power. He also knew accused killers were on the loose. Early that morning, eight inmates broke out of Riverbend Detention Center just a few miles away. It was the same facility where his late father had been warden during a decades-long career in law enforcement. Down the street, his two children were staying with his mother.
French Quarter Festival gets bigger Event expands riverfront footprint BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer
With hundreds of thousands of attendees and more than 300 acts, the French Quarter Festival is already the world’s largest free celebration of New Orleans and south Louisiana music, food and culture. This year, it’s getting even bigger. The festival’s producers announced Tuesday that the 2026 French Quarter Festival, set for April 1619, will expand its footprint to Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park, a green space at the Gov. Nicholls Street wharf. The festival has for years filled Woldenberg Park behind Audubon Aquarium. Expanding to this new, downriver site at Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park, which can be accessed along the riverfront
ä See FESTIVAL, page 12A
WEATHER HIGH 61 LOW 38 PAGE 8B
With a flashlight in one hand and a Glock .40 pistol in the other, he stepped out of his truck into the bitter cold. The beam hovered over a figure in the roadside thicket, Frasier recalled, though it took him a few moments to realize it was a person. “I said, ‘Man I’m telling you, if someone else is with you, if they come out of that bush, I’m shooting you.’” The man called for his partner,
ä See CHAOS, page 11A
ä See SENATE, page 7A
Moreno touts plan to fix I-10 lighting Project funded with $2.8M from Entergy fine BY BLAKE PATERSON Staff writer
Mayor Helena Moreno and the New Orleans City Council said they plan to use $2.8 million in fines levied against Entergy New Orleans seven years ago to repair lighting on Interstate STAFF PHOTO By BRETT DUKE 10 and on other major city Traffic makes its way over the Interstate 10 High Rise Bridge roadways. The money stems from a that crosses the Industrial Canal in New Orleans on Tuesday. $5 million fine the council
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ordered Entergy to pay in 2019 in connection with a paid-actors scandal that apparently has gone largely unspent in the years since, despite a city budget crisis and a failed 2019 push by former Mayor LaToya Cantrell to spend all of it on the embattled Sewerage & Water Board. The announcement Tuesday builds on Moreno’s “Lights On” initiative, which launched in January and requires her team to produce a game plan for maintaining the city’s more than 54,000
ä See LIGHTING, page 8A
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