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National Guard to withdraw from N.O. City officials confirm soldiers will roll out soon

BY MISSY WILKINSON, RICH COLLINS and WILLIE SWETT Staff writers

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Deputy Mayor Michael Harrison, right, and City Council member Freddie King III, center, speak with vendors about new enforcement rules on the Claiborne corridor in New Orleans on Friday.

New Orleans leaders eye expanding Claiborne corridor Officials discuss redevelopment with green space, vendors, performances BY VIOLET BUCARO and SOPHIE KASAKOVE

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Under the Claiborne Expressway, food vendors in RVs, trailers and tents show up for another long night to sell barbecue, tacos and cookies as cars zoom and clack loudly overhead. Six days a week, the two-block hot spot between Columbus Street and Kerlerec Street brings in hundreds of people to the underpass — and the city says it wants to redevelop it. Ofﬁcials with Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration say that they hope to move forward with a plan to redevelop the 19-block North Claiborne Avenue corridor into a walkable green space with room for vendors and performances. Two years have passed since the city completed its first phase of that plan: a revitalized three-block stretch between

ä See PROJECT, page 5A Food trucks line the Claiborne corridor in New Orleans on Thursday.

The Louisiana National Guard will leave New Orleans starting next week, ending a nearly eight-month deployment that featured federally funded soldiers on patrol in downtown areas as part of an effort by state and city leaders to prevent crime. City Hall spokesperson Jonah Gilmore conﬁrmed Friday that the troops’ ofﬁcial orders end Monday and that they would begin rolling out Aug. 31. Louisiana National Guard director of public affairs Lt. Col. Noel Collins said more information would be available next week. “We are incredibly grateful to the men and women of the Louisiana National Guard,” Mayor Helena Moreno said in a Friday statement. “While this deployment is ending, our partnership is not. The guard has always been an integral part of major events like Mardi Gras, working alongside our public safety agencies to keep our city safe.” The National Guard arrived on a federally funded deployment in late December after President Donald Trump approved a request from Gov. Jeff Landry to send hundreds of troops to the city to tamp down crime and assist with security for major events, including New Year’s Eve, the Sugar Bowl and Mardi Gras. Before that, Landry in September 2025 requested federal support to activate up to 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops statewide. Though they were initially scheduled to remain through February, the operation was later extended through August. In a statement on Friday afternoon, Landry credited his administration for the troops’ presence in the city. He criticized Moreno for thanking “everyone for the National Guard’s presence in New Orleans — except the two people responsible for it: President (Trump) and me.” “I will continue doing everything within my authority to help keep New Orleans safe, but there are clear

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Jerome ‘Big Duck’ Smith, civil rights activist, dies at 87 New Orleans advocate participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides

BY JOHN POPE

Contributing writer When he was a boy in the 1940s, Jerome Smith climbed aboard the St. Claude Avenue streetcar in New Orleans and sat down in a section reserved for White riders. Smith was Black, and segregation was the rule. White riders and the White conductor “went crazy,” he said in an interview, and told him he de-

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served a beating. An elderly Black woman intervened, slapping Smith and dragging him off the streetcar, apologizing to everyone and promSmith ising to see that he got the thrashing they had threatened. But once she walked him around the corner, she

kissed and hugged Smith and told him he was a man, Smith recalled. “I never did forget that,” he said in a 1988 oral history interview for the Amistad Research Center. “She was crying and trembling and said she was afraid for me, but she made me know then … that I can never, ever stop.” He never did.

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An unidentified New Orleans police detective stands behind Jerome Smith, from left, Ruth Despenza, Joyce Taylor, Hugh Murray Jr., Archie Allen and William Harrell at a Congress of Racial Equality sit-in lasting almost five hours at the segregated Woolworth’s department store lunch counter ä See SMITH, page 4A in New Orleans on Sept. 9, 1960.

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Court slashes judgment against Alex Jones

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas court on Friday slashed a $50 million judgment that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre over his false claims that one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history was a hoax. The Infowars founder can only be forced to pay about $6 million, the Texas Third Court of Appeals ruled in a unanimous opinion, citing state laws that limit lawsuit damages. The ruling does not affect a separate $1.25 billion judgment against Jones in Connecticut, where he was also found liable for defaming and causing emotional distress to relatives of the 20 ﬁrst-graders and six educators killed in the Newtown shooting. The punishing financial verdicts against Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, in recent years have forced him into bankruptcy, led to some of his personal property being put up for auction and led to him leaving his Infowars platform. For decades, he used the platform to push conspiracy theories about the United Nations, the federal government, gun control and more. Sandy Hook families have yet to collect any money from Jones, who has waged lengthy appeals in state and bankruptcy courts as his company faces liquidation. He remains on air after moving onto new websites and streaming platforms. Friday’s ruling did not throw out the trial court’s finding of defamation against Jones. Still, he called it “a gigantic victory for the First Amendment,” and said he will continue to appeal the case to the state Supreme Court to get the remaining damages thrown out.

Man with sword attacks school in Sweden

GENEVA — An 18-year-old man with a sword attacked a school Friday in central Sweden, leaving one person dead and at least two others seriously injured, a police chief said. Police Chief Tommy Alriksson told a news conference that the suspect had been arrested following the attack at the school in the central town of Fagersta, northwest of the capital, Stockholm. Police confirmed that shots were fired during the arrest. It was not clear whether the suspect had been injured, but he was being held in custody — not treated in a hospital. The attack took place at the Brinell School in Fagersta while classes were in session, with about 400 to 500 students, officials said. There was no immediate word on the attacker’s possible motive. “We have no reason at this time to believe that there are multiple perpetrators,” Alriksson said, adding that an investigation was continuing. Sweden’s national police said investigators have already carried out two house searches in connection with the suspect. Many witnesses were expected to be interviewed as part of the investigation. “That’s why we can’t give out too much information, because we don’t want to influence witnesses,” Alriksson said.

U.S. to pay $850M of $5B it owes to U.N.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has notiﬁed Congress of its plans to pay $850 million of the several billion it owes to the United Nations, the largest payment the Trump administration would make to the world body since it demanded sweeping reforms in exchange for continued support as its largest donor. The State Department laid out its plans to transfer $725 million as part of its dues to the regular U.N. budget and $125 million toward U.N. peacekeeping operations in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to notiﬁcations sent to lawmakers this month and obtained by The Associated Press. The U.S. is behind on about $5 billion in dues related to its U.N. membership, with more than $2 billion owed toward the regular budget and $3 billion for peacekeeping operations, the United Nations says.

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Ballroom building allowed to continue Roberts signs temporary order as high court weighs case

BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday allowed the White House to continue construction on President Donald Trump’s $400 million ballroom project for now, as the Supreme Court considers the Trump administration’s emergency request to intervene in lawsuits over the project. The temporary order came hours before lowercourt rulings would have forced a halt to aboveground construction of the project because Trump didn’t get congressional approval. It will remain in place until the Supreme Court issues a more durable decision, though the one-page document does not detail Roberts’ reasoning or indicate when another ruling will be handed down. Roberts signed the order because he oversees emergency appeals of cases ﬁled in the capital. The case is coming before the nation’s highest court as Trump, a Republican, exercises unparalleled assertions of presidential power and increasingly seeks to mold the capital in

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Construction continues on Aug. 5 on a helipad and the White House Ballroom on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. his own image. The administration has argued that the president has total authority to renovate the White House and other federal buildings as he sees ﬁt and that the ballroom project must be completed due to national security concerns. When Trump first announced the plans for a new ballroom, he did not emphasize national security. He said the project would be funded by private donations, including from himself. The National Trust for Historic Preservation argues that Trump has no

unilateral authority to undertake the work, which has included demolishing the East Wing. Lawyers for the preservation group accused the White House of trying to “outrun the courts” by accelerating construction. A spokesperson for the trust said Friday that the order from Roberts is not a ﬁnal decision and the group is awaiting further action. The full Supreme Court will likely weigh in next on whether construction can continue for the potentially long duration of the lawsuit. Trump said his adminis-

tration is grateful for Friday’s decision, writing in a social media post that the project is “under budget and ahead of schedule.” The Trump administration says 65% of the work has already been completed on the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, where the East Wing stood before the president ordered its demolition. Crews are working 20 hours a day, seven days a week, on the project, where about $200 million in private donations has been spent or committed, according to court documents ﬁled by the Justice

Department. The work has proceeded against the backdrop of the litigation winding through the courts. In April, a district court judge ordered a stop to the aboveground construction of the planned ballroom. That ruling was briefly suspended, then upheld by an appeals court panel. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington allowed work to continue only belowground on bunkers and military installations. Leon was nominated by President George W. Bush, a Republican. Leon’s decision was upheld by an appeals court panel, as two judges appointed by Democratic presidents found the project was for Congress to decide and “not a matter for Executive self-help.” A third judge, appointed by Trump, found that the preservationist group challenging the project had no legal standing to sue. Solicitor General D. John Sauer picked up on that argument, calling the decision halting the work “extraordinary and unlawful.” He said the completion of the project was “vitally required by national security.” The Trump administration has scored a series of victories on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, though the justices have ruled against some of the president’s signature policies after fuller review.

Officials: Russian drones kill 15 at Ukrainian mall By The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Russian drones struck a shopping center in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more, authorities said. The shopping mall strikes, plus two other separate Russian attacks in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, left a total of 21 people dead across Ukraine on Friday, authorities said. Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who described the attack as a double-tap strike, in which an initial wave of drones hit the area, followed by a second wave as rescue workers responded. “Attacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media. In a video address several hours later, he said Ukraine would respond to the shopping mall attack. Oleksandr Hanzha, who

statement from Ukraine’s air 54 civilians killed and 202 inforce on Telegram. jured. Friday’s attacks came Moscow’s forces have rejust 24 hours after Russia cently intensified their balpounded the capital of Kyiv listic missile attacks on Kyiv, with scores of missiles and exploiting Ukraine’s chronic drones in a nighttime aerial shortage of U.S.-made Patriattack that killed 16 people. ot air defense interceptors, Large-scale Russian the sole weapon in its arsestrikes have become a regu- nal able to shoot down the lar occurrence this summer. missiles. A Ukrainian drone attack Just over two weeks ago, a Russian attack on Kyiv killed one person and woundand its surrounding region ed four others when a car killed 17 people, and nine was struck Friday in Russia’s were killed in the city two Belgorod region near the vilPHOTO PROVIDED By UKRAINIAN EMERGENCy SERVICE days before that. The United lage of Razumnoye, local offiFirefighters battle a blaze at a shopping mall on Friday Nations said last week that cials said, adding that two of following a Russian drone attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Kyiv was one of the hardest the injured were in serious hit cities in July, with at least condition. heads the Dnipropetro- Ukraine’s Kharkiv region vsk regional military ad- killed two women, aged 73 GET IN TOUCH ministration, said Friday and 66, and wounded two evening that the attack on others, said regional head Customer Service: HELP@THEADVOCATE.COM or 504-529-0522 the mall killed at least 15 Oleh Syniehubov. News Tips / Stories: NEWSTIPS@THEADVOCATE.COM Another Russian atpeople and injured 130, inObituaries: 225-388-0289 • Mon-Fri 9-5; Sat 10-5; Closed Sun tack on Friday evening cluding 23 children. Advertising Sales: 504-636-7421 • Mon-Fri 8-5 Kryvyi Rih has been hit killed four people, inClassified Advertising: 225-383-0111 • Mon-Fri 8-5 multiple times during the cluding three children, in Subscribe: nola.com/subscribe more than 4-year-old war, Ukraine’s southern MykoE-Edition: nola.com/eedition Archives: nola.newsbank.com with one of the deadliest laiv region, emergency occurring in April 2025, services said. The Times-Picayune (USPS 18530) is published by Capital City Press at 840 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70130 and at additional mailing offices. Periodicals postage paid at New Orleans, LA. ISSN: when 20 people, including Ukraine shot down or 2379-0008. Capital City Press, proprietor. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Times-Picayune, nine children, were killed. suppressed 107 out of 135 Circulation Accounting, P.O. Box 588, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-0588. Newspaper carriers are independent contractors and not employees of Capital City Press. Earlier on Friday, a drones launched by Russia Russian drone attack on overnight, according to a All home delivery subscription sales are non-refundable. Should you discontinue your

Tornadoes touch down in Delaware, N.Y.’s Long Island Cleanup underway after storms

By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Cleanup efforts and damage assessment were underway Friday in Delaware’s capital and on Long Island, New York, after tornadoes touched down during storms that battered the Northeast with heavy rains and left dozens of people stranded in their cars during flash flooding. Officials said there were no reports of any serious injuries. The National Weather Service said a trained spotter reported a tornado in Dover, Delaware, during Thursday’s storms. Photos and video on social

media show the roof of a motel being blown off and damage to other buildings along U.S. 13 northeast of downtown. In Atlantic Beach on Long Island, images posted on social media show a large funnel cloud over the water and small buildings torn apart at a beach club. The weather service conﬁrmed a tornado touched down on the shore, saying it started as a waterspout over the Atlantic Ocean. Weather service crews were going to view the Delaware and Long Island damage on Friday to determine the strengths and paths of the tornadoes. Dover Mayor Robin Christiansen said a state of emergency was lifted Friday morning to allow residents and businesses to resume normal activities. Police urged residents

to be patient and set aside extra time for travel. “There is still debris throughout the city, and crews will be out working on cleanup, repairs, and restoring services. You may encounter blocked lanes, utility crews, emergency personnel, and other delays,” police said on social media. On Long Island, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said first responders rescued people trapped in their vehicles during ﬂooding. In other parts of New York, flooding caused part of the Long Island Expressway in Queens to close in both directions, according to New York City Emergency Management. Photos on social media showed lines of stopped cars as emergency crews traversed the water.

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Lindsay Clancy’s defense Enrollment in SNAP aid rests at her murder trial drops faster than expected BY GEOFF MULVIHILL and MIKELLA SCHUETTLER

BY LEAH WILLINGHAM and MICHAEL CASEY

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BOSTON — The defense rested its case Friday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting several days of testimony about her mental state before and after she strangled her three young children. Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial, which is likely entering its ﬁnal days. Closing arguments are expected next week. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of her children Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. They were found in the basement of the family’s home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts. Clancy jumped from a second-story window after strangling the children and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Prosecutors argue that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, planned the killings. Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, hasn’t disputed that she killed the children but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she had postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. He sought to bolster that defense by having the jury hear from more of Clancy’s family members, who detailed her worsening mental health and attempts to ﬁx it through psychiatric treatment and medications before the January 2023 killings. The jury also heard from a psychologist and a hospital chaplain who met with Clancy after the killings. For his final witness on

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Defendant Lindsay Clancy watches as her attorney Kevin Reddington prepares to interview a witness Friday during proceedings in her murder trial in Plymouth, Mass. Friday, Reddington called Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist and expert in filicide, or the killing of a child by a parent. Resnick testified that Clancy was “clearly psychotic” on the day she killed her children and was not in control of her actions. “It was almost like she was a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings,” said Resnick, who testified for the defense in the 2006 trial of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001. Resnick said he spent hours interviewing Clancy four months after the killings and believed she tended to minimize rather than exaggerate her symptoms. He said she suffered from severe depression, showed evidence consistent with bipolar disorder and reported hearing a voice commanding her to kill her children. Resnick described several categories of filicide, including killings involving abuse. Others involve psychosis or what he calls “altruistic” filicide — a killing committed “out of love rather than hostility.” He said he found Clancy’s case involved both

of the latter categories, but he didn’t find evidence of abuse. Resnick said Clancy had a delusional belief that if social services took the children or if she killed herself, her children would suffer without her, and believed that they would be better off dying with her and going to heaven. “She believed that she was doing what was right for her children,” he said. Under cross-examination by prosecutor Jennifer Sprague, Resnick acknowledged that Clancy did not disclose thoughts of harming her children to medical providers who asked, but said that was “very common because people fear their children will be taken away.” “So it’s better to kill them than have them taken away?” Sprague asked. The judge struck the question. Prosecutors argue that Clancy contrived to get her husband out of the house the day of the killings. They have attempted to show that while she was getting treatment for anxiety, insomnia and depression, she wasn’t suffering from psychosis or bipolar disorder.

Plane crashed on second attempt to land in heavy fog in Alaska Officials say all 8 aboard killed BY BECKY BOHRER and JOSH FUNK Associated Press

JUNEAU, Alaska — A small plane crashed on its second attempt to land in heavy fog at a remote military airport in Alaska, killing all eight people aboard, federal investigators said Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board said the pilots could not see the runway and had to rely entirely on instruments as they tried to land Thursday at the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport about 450 miles west of Anchorage. The two pilots and six passengers who died in the crash around midday Thurs-

day were not immediately identified. Two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees were among those killed. The radar site was built in the 1950s as part of a network designed to provide early warning of a missile attack by the Soviet Union. Today, it monitors the skies off the coast in the direction of Russia, North Korea and China. The site has a gravel airstrip built on the slope of a mountain. The Federal Aviation Administration recommends that pilots use GPS and other instruments when they land there. Those on board were “dedicated professionals carrying out a vital mission in a demanding environment,” U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Davis, commander of Alaskan Command, the Alas-

kan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region and Eleventh Air Force, said in a statement. “This is a devastating loss for our military family and the communities we serve,” Davis said. Weather conditions were changing Thursday as heavy fog rolled through the area. An automated observation system not far from the airport reported a low cloud ceiling, fog and visibility of about 10 miles in the minutes before the crash, but the next update about 15 minutes after the crash showed visibility reduced dramatically to less than one-quarter mile, according to Carrie Haisley, the meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service’s Alaska sector operations center.

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PHOENIX — Enrollment in the biggest federally funded food aid program in the U.S. dropped by more than 13% in a 12-month span — a decline far steeper than the government estimated as work requirements and other provisions of President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” take hold. Those losing coverage in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, include people who don’t meet the tightening requirements to participate, and, advocates say, some who qualify for the help but are rejected because they miss deadlines or don’t have the needed documentation handy. It’s too early to tell exactly how many fall into each group. It’s also unclear how many have lost coverage because some state agencies that run the programs are overwhelmed trying to keep up with changes. That was the case in Arizona, which saw the nation’s largest enrollment drop. Tia Fields, who analyzes social safety net policies at the advocacy group Invest in Louisiana, said the main reason she’s seeing people lose coverage is not failure to meet work requirements. “A lot of it is administrative paperwork,” she said. Proponents of welfare reform hope the roll reductions are driven by people earning too much to keep qualifying — a sign that policy changes are behaving as intended for a program they assert is riddled with fraud. “If there are people that are leaving the welfare rolls because they’re working and they’re moving forward,” said Rachel Sheffield, a research fellow at the conservative Heritage

Foundation, which pushed for stricter requirements for SNAP, “that would be a step forward.” Arizona has had the steepest decline so far, with a 12-month drop of more than 50%, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs SNAP. The decline was more than 20% in Georgia, Louisiana and Nevada — and in Florida, where the Department of Children and Families said in a statement that the decreasing number “is reflective of the state’s strong focus on advancing opportunities for Floridians and their families to achieve economic self-sufficiency.” SNAP helps more than 1 in 10 people in the U.S. buy food. Most of the beneficiaries have incomes below the poverty line. The monthly benefit, which is delivered on debit cards that can be used only for groceries, is $344 per household on average. Newly released federal data found SNAP enrollment fell from 42.2 million in May 2025 to 36.6 million in May, a drop of more than 13% in a year. The May data are preliminary and could be revised. Since 2010, the average number of monthly beneficiaries has been below 40 million for only two years — 2019 and 2020. The rolls started dropping after a recent peak of 43.3 million in October 2024. They’ve fallen much faster since implementation began last year for Trump’s “one big beautiful bill,” which cut taxes and overhauled social safety net programs. The expanded SNAP work requirement has now kicked in for most of the country, but it won’t begin in some places until next year. Many adults 54 and younger without minor children

have long been required to work to get SNAP benefits. The new law requires most people who previously had been exempt from requirements to either work, volunteer or go to school to get benefits. It now includes those ages 55 to 64, and those with children ages 14 to 17. Those 65 and older or with children younger than 14 remain exempt, as do those with health limitations. Some other groups that had been exempted from the requirement — including homeless people — no longer are. In February, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the new requirements and other factors would push SNAP enrollment down over the next decade, falling below 34 million by 2036. But the nonpartisan office did not expect the drop to be as fast as it’s been. By May, the number of people receiving the benefits was about as low as it was forecast to go in 2030. Experts expect another impact when states are required to pay part of the cost of benefits if their rate of payment errors — when recipients receive more or less than they should — is above 6%. Advocates for recipients say states may deny benefits to some people entirely rather than risk errors. The cost-sharing is scheduled to start in October 2027, though Congress has considered a delay. In Arizona, enrollment plummeted by 55% from April 2025 to April 2026 — the biggest drop in the country, with more than 400,000 fewer people getting benefits now. The state said the drop was driven largely by the state’s own struggles putting new federal requirements in place.

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Continued from page 1A Smith, 87, died in his MidCity home on Friday after a battle with cancer, said Robert “Two Scoops” Stanley, a longtime friend and chief program officer of Smith’s organization, Tamborine & Fan. Stanley said a celebration would be held to honor Smith at Professional Funeral Services on North Claiborne Avenue at 7 p.m. on Friday. Smith credited his mother for the courage he showed on the streetcar that day and for the rest of his life, one that saw him become a mainstay of the civil rights movement in New Orleans and beyond. He participated in picket lines, sit-ins and Freedom Rides, endured jailings and beatings and, when he was 24 years old, confronted U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy in 1963 with what he said was the federal government’s failure to do more for African Americans. In what might be Smith’s most enduring legacy, he cofounded Tamborine & Fan, an organization designed to instill in New Orleans children the importance of culture, history and tradition. “It is important to give these children these places of gathering, where that light in the child’s eye is respected,” Smith said in a 2017 video produced by the New Orleans Recreation Department Commission. “The light in a child’s eye is more powerful than the sun, because if that light ceases to be in the child’s eye, then the world is over.” Smith was known as “Big Duck,” because children followed him like ducklings. U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, DNew Orleans, called Smith “a freedom fighter, a mentor and a servant of this community who loved his people deeply.” “Duck didn’t have much patience for excuses,” Carter said. “If our children needed something, he was going to fight until somebody listened. … New Orleans is better because Big Duck walked these streets.” “We have lost a giant,” District Attorney Jason Williams said. “New Orleans has lost one of its fiercest champions. And I have lost someone whose presence in my life meant more than I can possibly put into words.” Smith was “at his core, a civil rights warrior,” said former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, now president and CEO of the National Urban League. “He was committed to civil rights and racial justice as a calling, as a ministry.” Former City Council member James Carter, a longtime friend who regards Smith as a mentor, said Smith’s spirituality, coupled with his resourcefulness, made him “a powerful force to reckon with. … His determination to equalize the playing field and not to subjugate anyone is an unimaginably powerful offering to humanity.” Louisiana Appellate Judge Edwin Lombard, whose brother, Rudy, founded Tamborine & Fan with Smith in 1968, remembered Smith as a man who never was satisfied with the status quo and was determined to set things right. “There was a drive that I haven’t seen in many people that propelled him to get things done,” Lombard said. “Once he saw a wrong, he wanted to right it and did whatever he had to do to change it.” But there was more to him than that, said Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes, chief equity officer at Ashé Cultural Arts Center. “What set him apart was the assurance of victory,” she said. “He helped us all to feel assured that we will overcome, that equity and justice are not just possible, but we have to achieve them.” Smith always said these attributes came from one person: his mother, Leona. “My mother was the well from which I drew much of my strength,” he said in the book “My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience.” “She taught us all to stand up for our dignity. … I’d never surrender because that was the strength she brought to me.” That attitude started young, he said in the Amistad inter-

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A photo by William Lovelace, of New Orleanians Jerome Smith and Doris Castle arriving in Mississippi by bus during the civil rights era, is displayed at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson in 2018.

Civil rights activist Jerome Smith wipes a tear as he escorts the casket of Rudy Lombard from New Zion Baptist Church in New Orleans on Dec. 20, 2014. STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

Jerome Smith is shown in a May 24, 1961, police photo after his arrest in Jackson, Miss.

view, when he insisted that White merchants address his mother as “Mrs. Smith,” instead of her ﬁrst name, the custom during segregation. Because he had once seen his father take down the segregated seating sign on the St. Charles Avenue streetcar, Smith behaved similarly when he was riding solo on the St. Claude line. “I knew that I wanted a seat and that my daddy would take the sign down and we would just sit,” he said in the Amistad interview. “It just so happened that I was by myself.” That incident, and the reaction it touched off, came as young Jerome was often the head of the house when his father, a mariner, was away for extended periods. Paul Robeson was one of his mother’s heroes, and Smith grew up learning about the singer and political activist. He was a drum major in the Joseph S. Clark High School band, and he joined the Southern University band when he enrolled at the Baton Rouge school.

Joining the movement Smith left in his sophomore year to be a dock worker, and he got involved in the labor movement. He soon became intrigued with the nascent push for civil rights and joined that movement, starting with a meeting on Dryades Street. When he saw Rudy Lombard, one of the local movement’s leaders, on a picket line, Smith told the Amistad interviewer, he picked up a sign and started marching. He joined the local chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, and participated in sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters at Canal Street stores. In 1961, White and Black activists who became known as Freedom Riders rode buses through the South to test Supreme Court rulings banning segregation in interstate bus travel and at bus stations. Smith rode on two trips. On the second trip, from New Orleans to McComb, Mississippi, “I realized we were going to be in for something” as the bus pulled into McComb, where a howling mob was waiting, he said in the Amistad interview. “Women were hollering, ‘Kill ’em, kill ’em, kill ’em,’ ” said Smith, who was beaten with brass knuckles. “I worked my way to the door, and then to the street.” Somehow, he said, an older,

“the only man who should be listened to is that man over there,” Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote in “Robert Kennedy and His Times.” “This boy just put it like it was,” Lena Horne said later. “He communicated the plain, PHOTO PROVIDED By basic suffering of being a Negro. The primeval memory MISS. DEPARTMENT of everyone in that room OF ARCHIVES AND went to work after that. … HISTORy He took us back to the common dirt of our existence and nonthreatening Black man rubbed our noses in it.” was able to drive a weatherbeaten truck through the Congress acts crowd. A month later, in a na“If he hadn’t come tionally televised address, through, I would have been President Kennedy spoke dead,” Smith said. “He didn’t about race and the need for get out of his truck. He just change. In July 1964, Conasked me if I could hear him. gress passed the Civil Rights I said yes. He said, ‘When you feel the truck, just roll over.’ I was able to ﬂip into the back of the truck.” Another Freedom Rider, Thomas Valentine, joined him, and they rode out of town atop feed for the old man’s hogs. They were driven to a place Smith described as an old juke joint in the woods. When Burke Marshall, who was in charge of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, tracked then down, he implored Smith and other demonstrators to stop protesting and get to a hospital, Smith said in “My Soul Looks Back in Wonder.” “We’re not stopping. We’re going back,” Smith replied. That moment was emblematic of the way Smith felt about the movement: The notion of being part of a great collective with a noble goal kept him from feeling alone and worrying about physical harm, and it made him determined to do more. “No individual strength was great enough to achieve that purpose,” he said in the Amistad interview. “There was no surrender.” The McComb beating caused headaches that afﬂicted Smith for the rest of his life, however.

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New Orleans police officers arrest Jerome Smith, center, and William Harrell, rear with arms in air, at an almost five-hour sit-in at the segregated Woolworth’s department store lunch counter in New Orleans on Sept. 9, 1960. Act; the Voting Rights Act followed a year later. But the country “still doesn’t understand,” Smith said in the Amistad interview. “The emotions of the time have not changed; the plantation is still very much intact. That definitely has not changed. We have gotten some improvements, but improvements as they relate to the spirit have not changed. That doesn’t mean that it won’t change. I have to believe that it’s going to change.” In New Orleans, Smith and Rudy Lombard started working with young people when they founded Tamborine & Fan to teach the importance of music and social awareness. The tambourine symbolizes Mardi Gras Indians, and the fan is an artifact of street parades. The two men “created a curriculum for understanding how music, street culture and social justice are connected in New Orleans, and then taught it by example,” Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes wrote in “Talk That Music Talk,” a book about New Orleans’ brass bands. Besides imbuing children with the importance of culture and social justice, Tamborine & Fan was set up to

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The Kennedy confrontation He was invited to a May 1963 meeting with Robert Kennedy, brother of President John Kennedy, at the attorney general’s Manhattan apartment. Kennedy was on the defensive, and Smith was having none of it. At one point, he said, “I’ve seen you guys (from the Justice Department) stand around and take notes while we’re being beaten.” “I told him it was nauseating for me to be there because it was nothing but a hoax and a joke, that it was about PR,” Smith told the Amistad interviewer. “I didn’t think it was real unless he was about to restructure Wall Street and have his children walk where I was walking.” Others backed him up. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, best known for the play “A Raisin in the Sun,” pointed to Smith and said that despite everyone else in the room,

steer young people away from crime and drugs, Edwin Lombard said. Smith “knew that if somebody didn’t intervene, they’d wind up in jail or dead.” With that group, which is based in the Tremé Recreation Community Center, Smith “taught them the truth about their history and encouraged them to stand up and ﬁght for righteousness and justice,” said Pat Bryant, a longtime political activist. “That’s the greatest gift that anyone can give a child, to teach the child how to stand up for a righteous society.” It was a logical extension of what had dominated Smith’s life. “I thought the movement was everything, the beginning and the end,” he said in the Amistad interview. “I had all this fuel from childhood; … I was always present in it. … I remembered what the lady on the St. Claude streetcar told me. I was glad to be a part of that.” In a 2014 conversation with The Times-Picayune, Smith said his mission “is not civil rights.” Rather, he said, “We demand that our humanity be respected.” Funeral arrangements were not immediately available.

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BY JAMES FINN Staff writer

A Louisiana-based federal judge held a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in contempt Wednesday, finding the agency violated an Ethiopian detainee’s rights and defied court orders as it repeatedly sought the man’s deportation after his release from immigration detention at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Federal officials were ordered to pay Ibrahim Mohammed, 43, attorneys’ fees stemming from his most recent arrest by ICE on July 28, as well $180 for “compensatory damages,” according to court records. The order from U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles, which applies to an ICE field office director in Mohammed’s home state of Maryland, marks a rare case of a judge holding the federal government in contempt — even amid mounting tensions between the judiciary and President Donald Trump’s administration’s immigration crackdown. DeGravelles has accused federal officials of violating due process laws while trying to deport Mohammed, whom ICE wants to send to a “third country” because he has shown he could be tortured in his native Ethiopia. Mohammed entered the U.S. legally and earned asylum but was convicted of child sexual abuse. He was released under GPS monitoring from the “Camp 57” immigration lockup at Angola on a February order from deGravelles. The judge found ICE was letting him languish there without plans to deport him. Mohammed was rearrest-

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ed two months later after ICE officials said they found two potential countries that had agreed to accept his deportation: Eswatini and Equatorial Guinea. He was released again after deGravelles found ICE failed to properly serve him papers saying where he would be deported, among other allegations raised by Mohammed’s attorneys. Immigration agents arrested him for a third time last month. Again, they failed to serve Mohammed with proper documents, according to an Aug. 6 hearing in which deGravelles demanded federal officials show why he should not hold them in contempt for appearing to violate his multiple orders. “The issue is not whether I can make a contempt finding, but whether I should,” he said then. Mohammed’s legal team lauded Wednesday’s contempt ruling as much-needed accountability. “Today’s decision makes it clear that ICE, like all law enforcement agencies, must follow the law,” said Gracie Willis, a National Immigration Project attorney representing Mohammed, in a statement. “Though Mr. Mohammed will never get back the time he lost to repeated, unlawful detentions, the compensation the court ordered today is important recognition of the very real harm he suffered.” A DHS spokesperson in an emailed statement highlighted Mohammed’s prior conviction, saying he had overstayed a visa after arriving in the country. “Under President Trump and DHS Secretary (Markwayne) Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences,” the statement said. The recipient of deGravelles’ contempt order is Vernon Liggins, an ICE field office director in Maryland who ordered Mohammed’s

arrest in both cases. DeGravelles’ order found that Liggins violated two of his judicial orders — first in February when deGravelles ordered Mohammed released from Angola, and then in April when the judge ordered ICE to honor his due process rights in its attempts to deport Mohammed. Liggins testified this month that Mohammed may have not been properly served because of a high volume of arrests ICE has been making. “We try to get all detainees served as quickly as possible, but we’re arresting a lot of people nowadays,” Liggins said in the Aug. 6 hearing. Judges have issued contempt rulings against federal ofﬁcials involved in immigration enforcement in select cases amid the administration’s crackdown. A federal judge in California this month held the government in contempt for slow-rolling her order to provide digital copies of devices used by immigration agents during sweeps in the Los Angeles area. DeGravelles, who was appointed by Democratic former President Barack Obama, became a target of attacks from Republican Trump administration ofﬁcials over his handling of the case. DHS leaders blasted his initial February order to release Mohammed and other petitioners as a “lawless abomination.” Pushback to the administration’s immigration enforcement tactics has spanned judges appointed by presidents of both political parties. Last spring, a Trump-appointed federal judge in north Louisiana castigated the government for deporting a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process.”

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have it be mediocre.” Vendors who were already under the bridge before the first phase of the project began said this week in interviews that the new space isn’t available to them. Ramsey said that only vendors with permits can set up in the redeveloped section. One vendor said more city appliances need to be added to the space beyond the three-block developed stretch, which would help vendors secure needed legal permits. “We need trash cans. We need a water source. Waste stations. A hand washing station. Give us a dumpster,” Fifty Winfield said, owner of NOLA Blickys X Raw Oysters. After a fight broke out last weekend that led to a shooting that sent three people to the hospital, other vendors have called for more security. Some of the vendors said they fear a shutdown if the development expands. Louisiana requires documentation such as business licenses, vehicle inspections, health department permits and sales tax certiﬁcates, which can be a complex process to acquire. Ramsey said Ujamaa is working to help vendors get permitted by passing out ﬂyers to vendors with information about licensing classes. City staff will be on hand Friday night to spread the word again, Moreno said. “The next phase of development will require thoughtful work on everything from design to updating rules and regulations,” added King in a statement. “Done well, this effort can create new economic opportunities and expand the city’s revenue base while maintaining a strong focus on public safety and orderly operations.” “We are working closely with various city departments and believe this effort is a priority for all involved.”

Future phases Lafitte Greenway and Orleans Avenue. But plans to continue the redevelopment have been slow-going and hamstrung by federal budget cuts. And in the meantime, an informal market has taken hold in the undeveloped stretch where tourists and residents purchase food from dozens of vendors, many of whom lack permits. Now, officials and the Ujamaa Economic Development Corporation, which is leading the development project, say they are pursuing funding to bring the full plan to fruition. Officials will use a $500,000 federal grant that was awarded in 2023 to design another seven-block stretch of Claiborne between Orleans and Esplanade avenues, said Nyree Ramsey, director of Ujamaa. Like the first three blocks, the redevelopment would involve installing stormwater management infrastructure and creating space for vendors and events. She said she hopes to combat flooding and add more artwork to the columns. “This space has looked neglected and disinvested for a long time,” she said. “We want our community to be beautiful in every aspect.” After several vendors this week said that the city could stand to better organize the space and that they wanted more information on how to become licensed, Moreno and City Council member Freddie King III sent staffers under the bridge Friday night to hear their concerns. “This is about providing information and educating people on what are the right steps to take,” the mayor said in a social media post after she stopped

As for the longer term development of the space, Ramsey has also advocated for redesigning highway on and off ramps to slow down trafﬁc. The grant money will be used to create designs for another seven-block stretch of redevelopment, though it took until this past June for the Federal Highway Administration to send the grant agreement to the city, which will need to be approved by the city, state and the federal government before planning can begin. It is also unclear where funding for future phases of the project would come from. A 2023 request by the state and city for $47 million in federal funds to redevelop the Claiborne corridor was rejected. An additional $2 million federal grant that the state and city was awarded in 2024 to plan for additional redesign work was canceled by the Trump administration the following year. Some in the neighborhood question the plan to move forward with the redevelopment at all. Teresa Thomas, owner of the store Crazy Plant Bae on Orleans Avenue, said that she has been disappointed the space near her store hasn’t been activated more frequently. And when there’s not an event being held, “there’s no life down there.” More often than not, regular activity is between St. Bernard and Esplanade avenues. Thomas said it would be “wasteful” to expand an initiative that she said has seen limited success. “I’m appalled that there’s more planning money and that no one is asking why this space isn’t more activated,” said Thomas. “It makes more sense to do one part and do it really well than do the whole thing and

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limits to the state’s responsibility,” Landry added. “Local leaders must step up and do their part.” At an NOPD meeting in the 8th District earlier this week, Capt. Sammy Palumbo said that the guard could return to assist with special events, including Mardi Gras. “Hopefully, this isn’t the last time,” he said.

Help with crime The guard’s presence was welcomed by the city’s leadership, especially by New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick, who previously called the partnership “the gold standard” for security. Although soldiers are not police ofﬁcers and do not have arrest powers, the NOPD and some other civic leaders have said that their presence deters crime. Throughout their deployment, guard officials have touted evening patrols in the French Quarter and enhanced security in the historic neighborhood. Recently, NOPD credited their presence with an incident-free Red Dress Run on Aug. 8. The arrival also came amid an ongoing slide in violent crime that began in mid-2023 and has continued to decline to historic levels not seen since the 1960s. As of Aug. 12, New Orleans had seen 52 homicides compared with more than 170 at the same time in 2022, a year of record bloodshed. Rafael Goyeneche of the Metropolitan Crime Commission — a law enforcement watchdog group — said the guard’s departure doesn’t come as a surprise, and he expects troops may return later this year. “They’ve been deployed here for decades, especially after hurricanes and for special events,” he said. “They usually come every fall around Thanksgiving and stay through New Year’s.”

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Members of the National Guard wait at the intersection of Canal and Bourbon streets in New Orleans on Jan. 23. Goyeneche said the guard, when activated, serves as a visual deterrent, freeing up NOPD ofﬁcers and the State Police’s Troop Nola to respond to 911 calls or make arrests. Christian Pendleton, the general manager of Brennan’s restaurant and a commissioner of the French Quarter Management District, agreed, saying he felt the troops helped to curb crime just by being visible throughout the Quarter. “For the very small percentage of people who want to do nefarious activities, it was somebody there watching, and it just gave them pause,” he said during a phone interview Friday.

‘Not upset that it’s going’ The deployment has not come without pushback, however. Critics of the National Guard’s New Orleans operation, including some downtown residents and workers, said the presence of armed guards didn’t make them feel any safer. Diane Hintz, 61, a muledrawn carriage operator who has lived in the French Quarter near St. Louis Cathedral for 25 years, said that with crime at such a low in New Orleans, she felt like the National Guard wasn’t needed in New Orleans and would prefer to see them somewhere else. “They are very nice people, they’re doing their job, but the crime has been at

the lowest it’s ever been in 20 years,” she said in an interview. She said she felt the guard sometimes caused unnecessary concern among tourists. “I had a lot of people ask, ‘Why are they here? Do we need to be worried?’” Trey Monaghan, operator of Molly’s at the Market on Decatur Street, said he doesn’t think the guard’s presence has “moved the needle” on crime one way or the other. “I’m a huge supporter of the National Guard in general and would love to see them out west working on forest ﬁres instead, but crime has been trending down in New Orleans,” Monaghan said. “If crime ticks up again, then bring them back.” Nathan Chapman, president of the Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates, said that for the neighbors he’s talked to, there was a feeling among some that the guard’s presence was a little “over the top.” “There were some people that were turned off — here’s the military that were walking around with guns in the French Quarter — but others said they gave them some extra sense of security,” he said. “We appreciate these young people that did the duty that was asked of them,” Chapman added. “But we’re not upset that it’s going.”

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FBI analyzed signals of phones linked to suspects BY JAMES FINN Staff writer

In the 24 hours before a prized federal informant died in a hail of bullets, prosecutors say cell tower data and Wi-Fi signals show his suspected killers were plotting the hit in a New Orleans East parking lot. One visited a Home Depot on South Claiborne Avenue, according to Federal Bureau of Investi-

gation data presented in New Orleans federal court this week. The other bought a burner phone. An agent from the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team, Blake Downing, presented that data in the ongoing murder-conspiracy trial of Sean Alfortish, the accused mastermind in a staged wrecks insurance scheme, and Leon “Chunky” Parker, the alleged triggerman in Cornelius Garrison III’s slaying.

Garrison was a prolific “slammer” who drove passenger vehicles in staged collisions and funneled his riders to chosen injury lawyers. He later cooperated with the feds before he was gunned down in his mother’s entryway in Gentilly on Sept. 22, 2020. In the trial over his death now entering its third week, prosecutors say Ryan “Red” Harris, a Garrison protégé, enlisted Parker to kill Garrison at Alfortish’s request

after Alfortish learned of his cooperation. Harris has pleaded guilty and implicated Alfortish and Parker, both of whom deny they plotted the murder, on the witness stand this week. So far, much of prosecutors’ case has hinged on Harris’ word, which defense attorneys have sought to undermine in the trial. Lawyers for both defendants argue that Harris pulled the trigger and pinned it on Parker, a yearslong family friend. The presentation Wednesday of FBI-gathered cell tower, Googlelocation and Wi-Fi data, plus call

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and text records from phones associated with the alleged killers and a pair of “burner” phones, sheds new light on how federal agents and prosecutors set out to unravel a killing that stopped cold a yearslong probe into the staged crash ring. The data revealed new details from the events immediately before, during and after Garrison’s murder, showing how Harris and Parker allegedly communicated with Harris’ then-girlfriend,

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Trial continues in defamation case Grandmother describes confrontation with judge

BY DAVID J. MITCHELL Staff writer

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Members of the Madisonville Junior High School cross country team run and walk through Madisonville, passing giant historic oak trees and the town’s historic cemetery as they get ready for their ﬁrst meet of the season next week. It’s not your typical cross country route, but it gives the team a unique look at some of Madisonville’s history while they get their miles in.

A woman who received an apology letter from state Supreme Court Justice Jeff Hughes III in a custody case when he was a district judge took the witness stand Friday to describe a 1999 confrontation with him during a protest outside his parish courthouse. Brenda Nicholson testified she organized the demonstration to focus attention on Hughes’ handling of her grandson’s custody case, which plays a key role in the ongoing trial of his defamation claims against The Advocate. She told jurors that Hughes, wearing his judicial robes, tore up placards calling for “Justice for Austin” and took down the license plate numbers of vehicles that bore the signs. Hughes, at the time a state district judge in Livingston Parish, had recently granted custody of Nicholson’s 6-year-old grandson — over her objections — to her daughterin-law, whose husband had been accused of abusing the boy. Nicholson told jurors that when Hughes headed toward her car, she stood in his path. “I told him not to touch my vehicle,” she said. When he responded, “Who are you?”, Nicholson testified, she explained she was the boy’s grandmother. The judge laughed, turned around and walked away, she said. Her recounting of the episode came on the third day of testimony in the defamation case, which stems from an editorial The Advocate wrote about Hughes’ alleged ethical lapses as a jurist. Hughes, seeking $10 million in damages, claims The Advocate mispresented the timing of a romantic relationship he had with an attorney for the parents of Nicholson’s grandson and rulings he made in the case. Hughes has testified he didn’t start dating that attorney, Berkley Durbin, until after she stepped down from the custody cases in late August 1998. The custody case led to an FBI inquiry that resulted in no charges, an investigation by the state commission that disciplines judges and a letter of apology from Hughes to Nicholson five years later in which he called his own actions “inimical” to the pursuit of justice. Jurors heard from Nicholson that she

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St. Tammany president explains project veto Mike Cooper rejects Goodbee housing plan

Finally, though, H1 many Parish President officials seemed to Mike Cooper mostly be in the clear, after remained mum. the Parish Council The developer, H1 passed the measure Associates, had been and changed the zonputting plans together for nearly two years to ing classification on BY JIM DERRY build up to 800 homes Aug. 6 from rural to Staff writer on two tracts of land. Cooper subdivision. And it seemed to be perfect While a debate raged for It was denied multiple months about two controver- times by the parish’s Planning timing for H1, as the approval sial residential developments and Zoning Commission — the came just four months after a housing study was released west of Covington, St. Tam- ﬁrst time in February 2025.

that said the parish needed thousands of homes to keep up with demand. However, soon after, Cooper’s silence came to an abrupt end. The following Monday, in a move he hadn’t used in nearly nine months, Cooper vetoed the council’s passage of zoning approvals for the 264-acre

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Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jeff Hughes III, left, and one of his plaintiff’s attorneys, Chuck Hughes Jr., leave the Iberville Parish Courthouse in Plaquemine on Tuesday following jury selection and opening statements in a defamation trial.

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Race for 6th District wide-open Fields not seeking reelection after redistricting

BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer

Two years after his election, U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields chose not to run again this year for a simple reason. Republican state legislators redrew his 6th District’s boundaries in May, and Fields, one of the state’s best-known Democrats, didn’t think he could win a congressional district that remains anchored in Baton Rouge but now strongly favors a Republican. That has not stopped three Democrats from running for the seat. They Fields are Chauna Banks, who served 12 years on the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council; Pat Forbes, who spent 20 years in highlevel state government positions for three governors; and Lindsay Garcia, a former social studies teacher in New Orleans who obtained a law degree from Southern University last year. The three are facing an uphill battle in an open primary that includes state Sen. Rick Edmonds, R-Baton

Rouge; state Sen. Blake Miguez, R-Erath; and Larry Davis III, an elected member of the Livingston Parish Republican Parish Executive Committee. The election will be an open primary on Nov. 3 in which the top two ﬁnishers, regardless of party, will advance to a runoff in December. The runoff is likely to pit the top Republican and Democrat vote-getters in the primary. The six House elections were supposed to take place in May and June, but Gov. Jeff Landry canceled them after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that invalidated the existing congressional map. Freed from having to consider race in their deliberations, Landry and legislators then redistricted the boundaries in a way that cost Fields his Black-majority district. Nearly half of the newly designed 6th District voters live in East Baton Rouge Parish, while nearly 20% live in Livingston Parish, 15% are in Ascension Parish, and the rest live in Assumption, Iberville, Lafourche, Pointe Coupee, St. Charles, St. John, St. Martin and West Baton Rouge parishes. The 6th district now has more Republicans (41%) than Democrats (30%), and Donald Trump carried

65% of loan of $3 million accounting for ter, is in his 11th year in the LegisELECTION itthewith vote in the half of that money. He had $2 mil- lature.

2024 presidential election, according to John Couvillon, a Baton Rouge-based political analyst. An early survey by New Orleans pollster Greg Rigamer, taken on Aug. 12-13, showed that nearly half the voters hadn’t yet chosen a candidate. H

‘The race is open’ Banks led with 18.8%, followed by Edmonds with 15.6%, Miguez 8.6%, Forbes 8.4%, Davis 6% and others 1%. A whopping 40.4% of voters were undecided. “The race is open,” said Rigamer. He did not include Garcia in the poll of 500 registered voters, which had a margin of error of 4.4%. Super lobbyist Alton Ashy paid for the survey along with another individual whom Rigamer would not identify. The latest campaign ﬁnance reports cover donations through July 17, which was three weeks before candidates had to formally qualify for the race. Forbes and Banks hadn’t raised anything, while Garcia had collected $65,000 and had $36,000 on hand. Miguez had easily raised the most money, $6 million, with a personal

lion in hand. Edmonds had raised $530,000 (including a $155,000 personal loan) and had $320,000 on hand. Davis had raised $21,000 and had $1,000 on hand.

What the candidates say

Banks, 64, said she believes she can win the race because she has a deep set of contacts through the district. She said the main issues are making housing and healthcare more affordable. Forbes, 65, said he believes he can win because he has a long history of working with Republicans and Democrats, while in state government, to improve the lives of Louisiana citizens. “The 6th district and Louisiana need someone who will represent them, not the president and not a party,” he said. Garcia, 40, said she spent 10 years working as a social studies teacher in New Orleans before pivoting to obtain a law degree from Southern University last year. “We need to get back to the system of checks and balances and reafﬁrming rule of law,” Garcia said, adding, “Congress needs to rein in Trump on Iran.” Email Tyler Bridges at Edmonds, 69, a Christian minis- tbridges@theadvocate.com.

Charge dropped in Williamson case

Officials said that decision came erly Hills law firm of Gloria Allred, son violently raped the woman on Woman was accused after prosecutors determined there a high-profile attorney who has several occasions and strangled her wasn’t enough evidence to secure a handled dozens of accusers’ sexual to “within an inch of her life” mulof attempting to conviction because Williamson was abuse claims against celebrity fig- tiple times. extort NBA star unwilling to testify at a trial sched- ure such as Jeffrey Epstein, Bill “If we cannot reach a resolution,

uled for next week. “Prior to the dismissal, our office communicated with Mr. WilStaff writer liamson’s attorney regarding his A woman accused of trying to ex- availability to participate in the tort Pelicans star Zion Williamson prosecution and advised counsel of for millions of dollars no longer fac- the potential impact his inability to es criminal charges in New Orleans. testify could have on the case,” said Vanessa Davies, 26, had been Kendrick Thomas, a chief spokescharged with trying to force man for District Attorney the NBA team’s secondJason Williams’ office. leading scorer to pay her “Counsel indicated that by threatening to file a lawwhile his client was disappointed, he understood the suit alleging he raped, kidcircumstances.” napped and beat her over Williamson, 26, could not their five-year relationship. be reached for comment Davies is identified in through attorneys and court filings only as “Jane Williamson sports agents. Doe” in a civil suit she Criminal District Judge Nandi lodged against Williamson last year in Los Angeles. Her attorneys Campbell had set Davies’ bench threatened to file the lawsuit in a se- trial to begin Aug. 28. Davies faced ries of letters to Williamson’s reps at least a year and up to 15 years in 2023 and 2024. Williamson has de- in prison if convicted of the charge. Exhibits in the criminal case innied the claims in the ongoing civil litigation. cluded memos and demand letters Prosecutors from the Orleans from Davies’ attorneys, ordering Parish District Attorney’s office on Williamson to preserve phone reThursday dropped a count against cords and other information that Davies of extortion by threatening could be used as evidence in a civil to expose a secret, court records case. show. One letter was sent from the Bev-

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Cosby, R. Kelly and Sean “Diddy” Combs. In her June 2023 letter, Allred said Davies and Williamson met August 2018 in Durham, North Carolina, during Williamson’s lone season playing at Duke University. Davies at the time was a freshman at Shaw College, a historically Black college in downtown Raleigh. The two began dating exclusively in December 2018, and Williamson asked Davies to move to New Orleans after the Pelicans drafted him as the ﬁrst overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, Allred’s letter stated. Davies moved to New Orleans in 2020 and the couple got engaged in 2024, but Allred claimed Williamson threatened to kill Davies on multiple occasions during the relationship. Kristi Schubert, a New Orleans attorney, also sent Williamson’s attorneys a memo on Davies’ behalf in July 2024. Seeking to settle a possible lawsuit, Schubert accused Williamson of using his money, status and “extreme physical strength” to control and psychologically manipulate Davies. She also claimed William-

we plan on filing the lawsuit the first week of December,” the letter stated. After Schubert’s law firm dropped off the case, Davies emailed Williamson’s attorney herself in November and again threatened to file suit if they could “not reach a resolution,” according to an NOPD arrest affidavit. Williamson and his attorney reported the demand letters to NOPD detectives in December 2024 and turned over recorded conversations Davies and her father had with Williamson and his attorneys. Investigators noted Davies requested a $5 million check multiple times in the recordings, the affidavits allege In a statement after Davies filed the May 2025 lawsuit against Williamson, his legal team denied the allegations in a statement saying he “never dated” the plaintiff in that case. Williamson and the woman had a consensual relationship that ended years prior to the suit. “Only after the friendship ended did she begin demanding millions of dollars,” Williamson’s attorneys at the time stated.

Man rebooked in 2006 murder after warrant mix-up BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer

A man serving a 20-year sentence for attempted murder and armed robbery was rebooked Wednesday on a second-degree murder count stemming from a 2006 Irish Channel killing after an overlooked warrant popped up when he was paroled last week. Dustin J. Lee, 37, appeared Wednesday in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, where Magistrate Commissioner Robert Blackburn found probable cause

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Continued from page 1B asked Hughes in July or August 1998 to recuse himself from the custody case because the family had learned about his relationship with Durbin. “He said he wasn’t stepping down,” she said. “He said he thought he could do it without stepping down.” The day Hughes awarded full custody to the boy’s mother, Nicholson testified, she picked up the child from school at the direction of her son, the boy’s biological father. Her son, who objected to the stepfather’s presence in the home because of the alleged abuse, took the boy out of state, she said. She was jailed 11 days for contempt of court until the boy was returned, she testiﬁed. Suzy Montero, an attorney for The Advocate, had Nicholson review the 2004 apology letter from Hughes. Asked why she had kept it, Nich-

He sponsored the legislation to create LA GATOR, which allows parents to use taxpayer dollars to send their children to private schools. “We need someone elected to this seat who knows this district, serves this district and lives in this district,” said Edmonds, making a pointed reference to Miguez, who owns a house in Baton Rouge but lives miles outside of the district. Davis, 29, said he is running “because we have elected the same individuals who have said they would carry out positive change to people’s lives, but that has not been done, not due to an unwillingness or capability but a lack of actual beliefs in what they are saying.” He said his biggest issue is working for the complete ban on abortion. Miguez did not return phone calls. Other candidates in the race include Monique Appeaning, a Republican from St. George; Michael Mebruer, a Republican from St. Francisville; Stephen Wagley, a Republican from Baton Rouge; and Rufus Craig, a Libertarian from Baton Rouge.

and set his bond at $400,000. Lee was paroled from Department of Corrections custody on Aug. 11, but remained jailed subject to a detainer stemming from the outstanding murder warrant, jail records show. Lee was 16 when he allegedly opened fire on a man driving through the Irish Channel the afternoon of Oct. 10, 2006. Sixth District ofﬁcers responding to reports of a wreck at Washington Avenue and Annunciation Street found a burgundy vehicle that had crashed into a building and a man slumped

across the driver’s side door with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. Nearly ﬁve years later, an NOPD cold case detective conducting a follow-up investigation interviewed an eyewitness to the shooting who gave “a detailed account of the incident” and picked Lee out of a six-person photographic lineup “without hesitation,” according to an afﬁdavit supporting Lee’s arrest. A judge signed the arrest warrant in July 2013. By then, Lee was

in Department of Corrections custody, having been arrested days after a separate October 2008 Irish Channel shooting and subsequently convicted. He pleaded guilty to shooting a 17-year-old boy in the chest in the 2100 block of Annunciation Street and was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. It was not immediately clear why the 2013 arrest warrant was not executed until 2026. “They should have tried this years ago,” Blackburn said at the bond setting. “That’s what they should have done.”

olson replied: “It was like a slap in the face.” She added that when she first read it, she felt “he thinks he’s untouchable.” Nicholson was among the first witnesses The Advocate’s attorneys called Friday to the stand. Lawyers for Hughes rested their case Thursday. Hughes claims the editorial portrays him in a false light. Eighteenth Judicial District Judge Kevin Kimball has focused the trial on the editorial itself but has allowed some of the news stories about Hughes into evidence. Hughes argues the original story had a “secret lie.” That story downplayed when Durbin dropped out of the child custody case, while a related timeline failed to mention it at all, leaving a false impression, his lawyers claim. Called to the stand by Hughes’ attorneys Thursday as a media expert was Woody Jenkins. A local Republican Party official who owns Central City News and other publications, Jenkins testified

that an ethics expert was quoted in the newspaper based on a false premise. Jenkins said the original story buried the timing of when Durbin removed herself from the case, calling it a “hit piece.” He also criticized the editorial for not running down facts. In its original story The Advocate quoted an expert as saying that a judge in a romantic relationship with an attorney should recuse himself because the situation presents “a classic conflict of interest, an obvious source of bias.” The last part of the quote was the headline of a story about Hughes. Court records presented at trial show Durbin on Aug. 14, 1998, filed a request to drop out of the Nicholson case, and an order granting it was signed Aug. 27 by another judge. The Advocate issued a clarification of the editorial, saying it failed to note that Durbin had left the Nicholson case in August 1998 and that her departure preceded Hughes’ final ruling in it the following year. The clarification also said

objections raised by child welfare advocates about Hughes’ ﬁnal custody decision didn’t happen until after he ruled in late March 1999. On Wednesday, Montero went line-by-line with Hughes through part of the editorial, asking if the facts were true. “In 1999, while on the state bench in Livingston, Hughes was romantically involved with lawyer Berkley Durbin, according to several people familiar with the situation,” Montero read, asking him if that was accurate. Hughes agreed. The next line of the editorial said that despite the relationship, Hughes didn’t recuse himself from a custody case and related legal matters involving the boy. Hughes argued that wasn’t exactly true. He said he tried to have another judge consider his recusal, but the parties seeking it didn’t show up for the hearing, which was set a day before his ﬁnal ruling in the case. Hughes acknowledged, under Montero’s questioning, that he

LaPlace man booked in attempted murder BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

An argument in the parking lot of Elmwood Shopping Center ended in gunfire Wednesday evening that sent one man to the hospital and another to jail, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. Charlie English III, 44, of LaPlace, was arrested and booked with attempted second-degree murder and simple burglary, said Sgt. Brandon Veal, spokesperson for the department. The altercation occurred just before 7 p.m. in the parking lot of the shopping center, located in the 1200 block of South Clearview Parkway. The victim, 40, is the stepfather of English’s adult daughter, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The men were involved in an argument, Veal said. Authorities did not disclose what sparked the disagreement, but things turned physical, according to Veal. English entered the victim’s vehicle, retrieved a gun belonging to the victim and shot him with it, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The 40-year-old man suffered at least one gunshot wound to his abdomen. The victim was taken to University Medical Center in New Orleans. His condition was not immediately available, but he is expected to survive, according to authorities. English was being held without bond Thursday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna.

could have recused himself, but said he wasn’t going to let litigants fail to show up for court on a lastminute recusal motion and delay the other side, who was there. He said that would be “an insult to the judiciary system.” Pressed further by Montero on the recusal, Hughes replied: “A half-truth is a whole lie if you include it with that, but I did refer it to another judge and that would be true.” Testimony in the trial continued into Friday evening. David J. Mitchell can be reached at dmitchell@ theadvocate.com.

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Man arrested in death of missing New Orleans resident Frederick Johnson, 42, was taken into custody on a second-degree A man believed to have killed a murder warrant after police say he missing New Orleans resident was killed Alphonse Hogan Jr., 68, who arrested in Gonzales this week on went missing earlier this month. On Aug. 3, New Orleans ofﬁcers murder counts, according to the took a report of Hogan’s disapNew Orleans Police Department.

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Continued from page 1B Jovanna Gardner, whom Harris tricked into texting Garrison to open the door before he was killed. But it also left unanswered questions. Under cross-examination by Parker’s defense lawyer Stephen Haedicke, Downing acknowledged omitting from the report some location data that showed Parker left his phone at his own home during the time of the killing, a key component of his defense. The report also showed Harris’ mother, Selita Harris, withdrawing $20,000 — the amount Harris testiﬁed Parker would be paid for the hit — from a bank account the day before the killing. Selita Harris has not been accused of any role in the slaying.

Meetings at Planet Fitness On Sept. 21, 2020 — the day before the killing — prosecutors say Alfortish

met with Harris and Parker to discuss the hit. Cell tower data showed Alfortish moving that morning from south Harahan to Metairie, where prosecutors allege the trio met at Harris’ family auto shop to discuss the planned hit. Alfortish’s attorneys said their client was actually at Clearview Mall, which is near the auto shop, and noted the inconsistency of cell tower data. Downing acknowledged he could not confirm the three men or their devices were in the same location that afternoon. Like Harris’ mother, Parker withdrew thousands from his bank account that day — an act prosecutors say showed he was readying for the killing. His lawyers say Parker, who had participated in a staged accident, read Garrison’s federal indictment and was alarmed by a passage saying federal defendants would have to forfeit property. Parker scrambled to preserve his assets, his attorneys said. Just before 1:30 p.m. that

pearance. He was last seen at his 7th Ward home in the 2000 block of Lapeyrouse Street. During the investigation, detectives received information pointing to foul play, and homicide detectives took over the case with the

afternoon, Gardner texted Harris, “wya.” Harris replied “East meeting with Big Boy” (another nickname for Parker). Google location data and cell tower data show Harris’ phone and a burner phone associated with Parker in the parking lot of a Planet Fitness in New Orleans East shortly afterward. Just after 3 p.m., security camera footage showed Harris buying a second burner phone. At around 5 p.m. Parker’s email handle, BigBoyCowboy55, connected to a Wi-Fi signal at the Home Depot on South Claiborne. Harris visited Gardner that evening and gave her the newly purchased burner phone, according to his testimony and location data. Her orders were to text Garrison pretending to be a woman. But Harris told her that he simply wanted to meet his old mentor to offer him money — not to kill him, he testiﬁed. “I figured she wouldn’t want anything to do with (killing),” he testiﬁed.

assistance of the FBI, police said. After an extensive investigation involving multiple search warrants, police said Hogan’s death was reclassiﬁed as a homicide, and Johnson was identified as a suspect.

Location data appeared to show Harris and Parker meeting in the Planet Fitness lot again later that evening. “GAME TIME, WHO DAT — im here,” Parker texted Harris has he arrived at around 7:28 p.m. (The Saints were playing the Raiders that evening in Las Vegas.) The FBI records show a call between the burner phone allegedly in Parker’s possession and the one given to Gardner minutes later. Gardner’s burner also called Garrison’s phone that evening, the records show.

‘What you doin later’ At around 4:45 p.m. the next afternoon, Gardner’s burner phone texted Garrison purporting to be someone named Kim. “What you doin later,” she wrote. Garrison replied, “nothing, staying inside.” The two made plans to meet. “Kim” texted Garrison, “ima call you when I come around 8:30.” Garrison was in touch with another woman that

Johnson was located in Gonzales on Thursday and arrested with the assistance of Louisiana State Police, the FBI and the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Ofﬁce. He will be extradited to Orleans Parish at a later date.

evening, a former girlfriend named Juanisha Winchester. They spoke on the phone and texted after they hung up. “He texted me inviting me over to his mom’s house,” Winchester testiﬁed. “I said, ‘Stop playing with me.’ We stopped texting about six o’clock.” The FBI presentation didn’t provide details on Harris’ and Parker’s locations as the killing unfolded, though Parker’s phone remained at his home at that time. Prosecutors say the burner phones — whose locations were used to unspool the suspects’ movements — were destroyed at one point. At 8:34 p.m., Garrison’s phone rang. It was “Kim” on the burner. Garrison’s mother called 911 four minutes later. “My son just got shot,” Sandra Fontenette-Garrison told the dispatcher, who asked if she knew the suspects. “I couldn’t see, baby,” she

wailed. “I hit the ﬂoor. … Oh, lord have mercy.” Another caller who asked a dispatcher to remain anonymous said they heard doors slam and screeching tires. At 9:30 p.m., Harris’ phone called Parker’s for 24 seconds. FBI Special Agent Robert Orvin, a white-collar crime specialist assigned to investigating the staged accidents ring, arrived on the scene the next day. The case had ballooned into a murderconspiracy, and the investigation of Garrison’s death would soon be handed off to the bureau’s violent crime specialists. Agents canvassed the neighborhood, asking people to speak up. Few would. “When you have an individual murdered, as one person told us, it sent a message on the street not to talk to the federal government,” Orvin said. Email James Finn at jﬁnn@theadvocate.com.

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Continued from page 1B tract that was to be known as the Isadora subdivision and a 31-acre tract that would have been called the Esperanza subdivision. During an interview this week, Cooper said that despite his relative silence he had been monitoring the project throughout the “long process,” and that he was swayed by the Planning and Zoning Commission’s recommendation for its denial and the public’s intense disapproval of the measure. “I don’t think it can be overstated the impacts this would have had on the community,” Cooper said. “We have to continue to first invest in our drainage and roadway infrastructure before we can move forward here.” Soon after using his veto powers, he called each member of the council to inform them of his decision. The reaction was “some discouragement, but for the most part they appreciated the call,” he said. The council still could override Cooper’s veto, and they have through their October meeting to do so. It would take a vote of 10 of the council’s 14 members to do so, which could be a high hurdle considering the larger tract passed by a 8-6 margin. Martha Cazaubon, who

represents the district where the two subdivisions would have been constructed and voted to pass the measure, did not respond to a phone call and message placed Wednesday asking if she would seek a veto override. Legal action also could be pursued by the developer, Jeff Vallee of H1 Associates, who declined to comment on the project or his future steps. Meanwhile, some residents aren’t assuming the issue is over. Donna Clemons, a local resident and business owner who is opposed to the developments, said she and others are upset that Cazaubon voted against the wishes of some of the people she represents as well as against the Planning and Zoning Commission’s recommendation. Having lived in her Goodbee home for 37 years, Clemons said she is concerned about what new subdivisions would do to an existing flooding problem and the oversaturated trafﬁc residents deal with on a daily basis in the area. “I have seen this over and over again, and I am not just talking about huge storms,” said Clemons, who has started a petition to recall Cazaubon. “We’re talking ﬂooding for regular rain events.” The council member offered a rationale after her approval two weeks ago and said H1 agreed to all

the changes to plans the council had asked for that would improve drainage and traffic. “With individual water and sewage, there’s no plan for drainage anywhere,” Cazaubon said earlier this month. “People end up with personal property that they end up filling in, which scares me more than the development. … I said no for two years, and (the developer) came back with a plan that was even better than what our ordinances required.” Now, due to Cooper’s veto, this particular project seems to be dead, but he said it isn’t the end of the story when it comes to construction expansion. Rather, he recognizes there is still a need for more housing in St. Tammany. The housing study stated that due to population growth, which could rise from 280,000 to just shy of 300,000 residents within the next four to five years, a minimum of 11,500 homes need to be built in the parish by 2030. There already are homes under construction in the Tantela Lakes and Spring Lakes subdivisions in Goodbee, but those don’t come anywhere near to filling the numbers set forth by the study. “It’s true an aggressive amount of homes need to be built, but (the study) also states very clearly new developments should not be built in flood-prone

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New Orleans Area Deaths Lovell, Florence Mack, Betty Psarellis, Michael Washington, Gwendolyn

Obituaries Lovell, Florence 'Dale'

Florence "Dale" Lovell, age 89 of Grayson, Georgia, passed away Wednesday, August 12, 2026, at Dogwood Forest of Grayson. Dale was born on September 25, 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her parents, Harry Mitchell Jenkins and Marguerite Laferriere Jenkins, and her husband, Gilbert Ray Lovell, all preceded her in death. Dale taught adult literacy through Griffin Technical Institute. She was a gracious helper and an avid reader who volunteered with school libraries, hospice facilities, and Sacred Heart, where she was also a member. More than anything, Dale was a loving wife and mother who will be dearly missed by those who loved her. Survivors include her daughters, Elizabeth Jane "Janey" Wilcox, Laura Lovell, and Eleanor Lovell; niece, Genevieve Porter Eason; and sister, Alliene Jenkins. The family will have a burial in Conyers, Georgia. Date and arrangement are yet to be determined. Conner-Westbury Funeral Home, located at 1891 W. McIntosh Road, is in charge of the arrangements. Please join the family and friends in honoring the life of Dale Lovell by visiting www.connerwestburyfuneralhome.com and posting your tributes and memories.

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of the late Isaac Wheeler Sr and Ethel Collins Wheeler. She was the proud mother of the late Melinda Ann Wheeler James. Betty was a graduate of John McDonogh High School. Betty went on to further her education at Southern University at New Orleans. Betty welcomed her beloved daughter, Melinda Ann Wheeler James into the world. Their bond was extraordinary, built on deep love, unwavering support, laughter, and countless cherished memories. In September '1980 Betty married the love of her life, Curtis Mack, Jr. Through both the joys and sorrows of life, Betty carried with her the love of family and the memories of those who meant the most to her. In October 2022, Betty and Jr. joined the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Fred Luter, Jr. where she was a member of The Senior Soldiers Ministry. Betty was also a devoted employee of Liberty Bank where she faithfully served for 32 years. Betty's passion for cooking extended into her family, her favorite dish was peach cobbler. She treasured every member of her family, Every morning Betty would send a prayer by text to her loved ones beginning their day with words of faith. She leaves to cherish her memories; her loving and devoted husband of 45 years Curtis Mack Jr, stepdaughter Quiana King (son-in-law Shrederick King), stepson Antonio Acker (daughter-in -law Venita Acker), four grandchildren Antonio Acker Jr, Nia Acker, Ashleigh Acker, and Curtis Andrews, son-inlaw Byron James. Two sisters Etheline Wheeler Permillion and Mercedes Holmes, three brothers Vincent Stripling Sr, Isaac Wheeler Jr (sister-in-law Cherlyn Wheeler), Larry Wheeler Sr (sister-in-law Brenda Wheeler). Seven sisters-in-law and three brothers-in-law. As well as a host of nieces, nephews, great nieces, nephews and God-children. She was proceeded in death by her father Isaac Wheeler Sr, mother Ethel Collins Wheeler. She is also proceeded in death by her beloved daughter Melinda Ann Wheeler James, stepson Curtis Mack III and sisterin law Brenda Adams Stripling.

Psarellis, Captain Michael Elias 'Mike'

On Saturday, August 1, 2026, Betty was called into eternal glory at the age of 73 years old. Betty Ann Wheeler Mack, was born on September 4, 1952, in New Orleans, La. The daughter

Captain Michael Elias "Mike" Psarellis, age 82, passed away in Slidell,

Louisiana, on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, with family at his side. He is survived by his brother Steven (Dawn). He is preceded in death by his wife, Mary Ann; parents, Elias and Vasilia; and sister, Erin. Captain Mike was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 27, 1944, and lived there until the family moved to Kardamyla, Chios, Greece and then later to Athens, Greece, where he attended the American Community School. He graduated from the State University of New York - Fort Schuyler with Bachelor of Science degree and a third mate's deck officer license for ocean going vessels. Upon graduation he immediately entered the merchant marine services. Captain Mike was a veteran of the U.S. Merchant Marines, having served on ocean going cargo ships during the Vietnam war making calls in the active war zone supporting American troops. He achieved the pinnacle of his profession by achieving the status of Unlimited Master, commanding vessels of any size worldwide and sailing the seven seas. Upon retirement, he immersed himself in his passions, painting and writing. His art was featured at his private gallery, WYES Art Auction, and at homes in the U.S. and Greece. He published his first novel "Kaliste" in 2009 and more recently completed his second novel which will be published posthumously. Captain Mike, a loving, caring, family man, lit up the room with his smile and positive energy. A religious man, he was active at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New Orleans, where he served as a parish council board member for a number of years. After Hurricane Katrina, he became active at St. Basil's Greek Orthodox Church in Houston where he also served as president of the local AHEPA chapter. He supported many church based organizations and projects, including the annual Erin E. Psarellis Scholarship awarded to students excelling in the Greek language and arts. He will be deeply missed by his family and friends. Fair winds and following seas on your final voyage, Captain. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 1200 Allen Toussaint Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70122. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services on Saturday, August 22, 2026, at 10:00 AM at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 1200 Allen Toussaint Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana, with visitation beginning at 9:00 AM. Interment will follow in St. Joseph Abbey Cemetery, 75376 River Road, St. Benedict, Louisiana. E. J. Fielding Funeral Home of Covington, Louisiana, is honored to be entrusted with the funeral arrangements. The

Psarellis family invites you to share thoughts, memories, and condolences by signing an online guestbook at www.ejfieldingfh.com.

Washington, Gwendolyn

Gwendolyn Washington was a beloved educator,

mental-health advocate, entrepreneur, and author. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Tulane University and was a proud lifetime member of Psi Chi. She founded Holistic Concepts, Inc., a community-based mentalhealth rehabilitation agency she led for more than 20 years, caring for adults, children, and families across New Orleans. After her retirement, she ran a bed-and-breakfast from her home and loved welcoming guests from around the world. In 2018 she published "As Long as There is a Tomorrow, There is Hope," a novel that celebrates the culture, history, spirituality, and re-

silience of New Orleans. A visitation will be held from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM on 2026-08-25 at St. Peter Claver Church, 1923 St. Philip Street. A funeral service will be held from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM on 2026-08-25 at St. Peter Claver, 1923 St. Philip Street.

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Stars and Stripes editor fired for insubordination

The Pentagon on Friday ﬁred the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter, the editor said. He said he was dismissed for insubordination after an interview he gave that objected to potential censorship by the U.S. military. Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of the military newspaper that is partly funded by the Pentagon but has a long legacy of editorial independence, told The Associated Press that he and the others had received notices of separation. Trump or other parts of the executive branch have also, in policy and in the courts, grappled with The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and The New York Times in addition to using the FCC to target broadcast networks. Slavin said he was being ﬁred “for stating in a CBS interview that hypothetical censorship of news for service members would constitute a red line.” He said he stands by the principle “that Stars and Stripes must remain editorially independent.” Earlier this week, publisher Max Lederer announced his retirement effective at the end of September. He too received a separation notice, according to Slavin, as did Middle East reporter Lara Korte, who was cited for the same CBS interview as Slavin. Neither Lederer nor Korte immediately responded to requests for comment. Lederer made his announcement a few weeks after the Pentagon installed a new deputy publisher, an active duty service member, under Lederer at the newspaper without his prior knowledge.

Alfalfa sprouts linked to poisoning outbreak NEW YORK — U.S. health officials say a food-poisoning outbreak tied to alfalfa sprouts and involving multiple germs has sickened people in 15 states. State officials announced the outbreak earlier this week, saying they documented more than three dozen cases in Minnesota and Wisconsin. On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the agency is aware of 55 cases nationally, including four people who have been hospitalized. Of 34 sick people interviewed, 26 reported eating alfalfa sprouts, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Food poisoning outbreaks tend to be defined by one type of germ, but this outbreak involves people with salmonella and different strains of E. coli. Officials are linking cases to alfalfa sprouts produced by Everything Sprouts, a Minnesota grower, and sold under the Calco and Everything Sprouts brands to restaurants and grocery stores. The company has yet to issue a recall, the FDA said. Last year, the FDA sent a warning letter to Everything Sprouts, saying inspections the year before identified several points of concern, including a leaking roof that was dropping water onto bean sprouts and workers’ smocks. The Associated Press left messages for Everything Sprouts seeking comment.

Tesla recalls nearly 3M vehicles in China HONG KONG — Tesla and other Chinese carmakers are making a major recall over safety concerns mostly related to their door handles, according to Chinese authorities on Friday. The U.S. carmaker is recalling about 2.98 million Chinamade and imported EVs including Model 3, Model Y, Model X and Model S over door handle safety risks, according to China’s State Administration for Market Regulation. The recall comes a few months after Chinese authorities said in February that starting next year, it would be banning hidden car door handles that are commonly seen on Tesla electric vehicles and many Chinese EV models.

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Bond market puts pressure on stocks BY STAN CHOE Associated Press

NEW YORK — U.S. stocks rose Friday and trimmed their losses from a shaky week. That was even though the bond market, which has been the center of Wall Street’s action, remained jumpy and continued to add pressure. Ross Stores helped lead the way and rose 4.4% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. CEO Jim Conroy said it saw both an increase in new cus-

tomers and more interest from existing customers, while the offprice retailer at the same time benefited from refunds on tariffs. Most U.S. companies have reported bigger profits for the spring than analysts expected, which has helped drive stocks to records. Stock prices tend to follow the path of corporate profits over the long term. Hopes for continued profit growth got a boost from a preliminary report by S&P Global suggesting growth for U.S. business activity hit a 52-month high. But the other big lever that helps set

stock prices, interest rates, has been much shakier. After soaring through the summer and then hesitating following this week’s surprise move by the U.S. Treasury Department to repurchase more U.S. government bonds, yields climbed further on Friday. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.73% from 4.69% late Thursday. It’s back above its level from before the Treasury market made its move, which analysts said at the time would likely have only a temporary effect. The 30year Treasury yield also rose and

is near its highest level since 2007. Contributing to Friday’s gains for bond yields was continued uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow oil tankers to freely exit the Persian Gulf again. One of the biggest beneficiaries of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s move to try to get longer-term yields lower is bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies often rise when interest rates are lower and more money is flowing through the ﬁnancial system. Bitcoin has climbed above $77,000 from less than $63,000 a week ago.

Cattle producers, rural Republicans balk at Trump order on beef imports President says reduction of tariffs will lower beef prices

BY SEUNG MIN KIM and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration will allow more beef to be temporarily imported into the U.S. without triggering higher tariffs, which drew swift pushback from cattle producers and conservative rural-state Republicans. Beef prices have climbed to record highs amid a drop in the number of U.S. cattle, consistent consumer demand and limits on cattle from Mexico, where the animals are facing a ﬂesh-eating pest. The U.S. president has also imposed 50% tariffs on Brazil, a major beef exporter. Trump remains under pressure to cut costs and address affordability issues ahead of November’s midterms. But ranchers, normally some of the president’s biggest supporters, are enjoying some rare profitable years and worry cheap Trump beef imports will reduce cattle prices — and with it, the incentive to increase herd sizes. “We all want lower grocery prices, but as I’ve said for months, we cannot do it at the expense of American producers,” Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., said in a statement. “Flooding the market with foreign beef hurts our livestock industry and undermines the long-term solution: growing the U.S. cattle herd to meet demand.” Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., said in a social media post just hours after Trump’s announcement that the president’s “heart is in the right place,” but importing beef will “harm our ranching families who feed the nation.”

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Beef prices have climbed to record highs amid a drop in the number of U.S. cattle. And Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., said that while he appreciates the administration’s focus on grocery prices, “short term policy shifts do not equal long term solutions.” The deal, Trump said, allows up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be imported into the U.S. for the next 90 days without activating an “out of quota” tariff, which is a tax that goes into effect once a certain quantity of that product enters the country. The president said on social media that he had committed to ensuring the imported beef would be sold at 25% below current market rates, making it cheaper for American consumers. A White House ofﬁcial said the deal is with foreign beef exporters who have agreed to the discount on beef. “You don’t put America first by putting U.S. cattle producers last,” U.S. Cattlemen’s Association President Justin Tupper said in a statement. “This move will weaken our markets and gamble with food safety in the process.”

The president’s announcement and other market interventions sacriﬁce “long-term stability for short term messaging,” Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, said in a statement. Glynn Tonsor, a professor at Kansas State University who focuses on the cattle and beef industry, said he would like to see more details about the latest deal but that his immediate assessment was that it wouldn’t have a big effect on prices. That’s because 300,000 metric tons amounts to roughly 3% of what Americans eat yearly, he said. “The relative magnitude we are talking about is pretty small.” David Anderson, professor of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University, said he was skeptical other countries could redirect so much beef to the U.S. in such a short time period. “Is that even achievable?” he questioned in a phone interview. The White House ofﬁcial, who spoke on condition of anonym-

ity to discuss a plan that has yet to be ﬁnalized, said the beef in question is lean beef trimmings that are used for ground beef production. Trump plans to sign an executive order formalizing the directive within two weeks, the ofﬁcial said. The administration made a push last year to buy more beef from Argentina to try to bring down prices. The president said Friday that his plan would help grow the U.S. cattle supply, which is the smallest it’s been in decades. Some ranchers and experts said the opposite effect was more likely. “Imports have been a major contributor to the decline in the U.S. cattle inventory,” said Bill Bullard, the CEO of the RCALF USA, which represents independent cattle producers. “Using more imports today will exacerbate that decline and will prevent herd expansion.” Associated Press writers Sarah Raza in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Sudhin Thanawala in Atlanta contributed to this report.

MAHA activists oppose promotion of coal to power data centers BY ALI SWENSON Associated Press

NEW YORK — Nearly 200 activists in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement are criticizing President Donald Trump’s promotion of coal to fuel the rise of artificial intelligence data centers, according to a letter sent Friday. The letter, signed by at least two former staffers from Kennedy’s 2024 presidential campaign, marks the first major MAHA movement mobilization over fossil fuels and the latest in a series of rifts between the diverse group of activists and the Trump administration over environmental policy. The letter to Trump, Kennedy and various other Cabinet officials, first obtained by The Associated Press, laments a 2025 executive order that aimed to boost coal to power data centers over pollution concerns and asks the administration to consider renewable options, including solar and geothermal energy. “We understand the importance

of American leadership in artificial intelligence, national security, innovation, and economic growth,” the letter reads. “But American AI leadership should not come at the cost of a more toxic burden for American children.” In response, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers noted that greenhouse gas emissions dropped to a 30-year low during Trump’s first term and said Trump “was given a mandate to roll back the radical climate policies that are burning a hole through taxpayers’ wallets.” The agencies receiving the letter didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Although it may not reflect the views of all MAHA activists, the new line of criticism against one of the administration’s signature policies less than three months before November’s midterm elections could present another challenge for Republicans as they seek to win over the voting bloc in key races. As health secretary, Kennedy has carried out several policy changes that cater to the MAHA

movement, including attempting to scale back childhood vaccine recommendations, a central priority for some activists. He also has sought to remove artificial dyes from food and encouraged Americans to have healthy diets free of ultraprocessed foods. But many in the MAHA movement, which Trump credits with helping him win back the White House two years ago, say they have grown frustrated with the administration over its embrace of pesticides such as glyphosate and its deregulatory environmental agenda. Some have said they plan to vote on issues over party this fall, raising the political stakes of their increasingly public tensions with the Republican administration. As president, Trump has enthusiastically embraced what he calls “big, beautiful coal” despite outcry from environmentalists about planet-warming greenhouse gases and toxic chemicals released by coal-ﬁred power plants. His administration has moved to reverse tighter Biden-era standards on greenhouse gas emissions,

which, in addition to their climate impacts, can harm brain development in children and increase rates of heart attacks in adults. He also has been a vocal advocate for data centers, which power artiﬁcial intelligence and cloud computing, framing them as a necessary component of winning the AI race against China. “If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state, and I had a chance to get a big plant in, an AI plant or a data center,” Trump said this week, “I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid, are just enormous.” Voters across the political spectrum have criticized data centers for jacking up electricity bills, draining water supplies, and creating unhealthy amounts of air and noise pollution. Friday’s letter asks the administration to require transparent review of data center location and power sourcing decisions, and respect existing environmental review requirements in the permitting process.

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Democrats try to crack the presidential primary calendar code Changes made to the political system are usually motivated by self-interest. But that doesn’t mean the changes produce expected results. New campaign finance rules that Congress enacted in the 1970s and afterward were supposed to take money out of politics. Obviously, that didn’t happen. The amount of money flooding into campaigns since then has increased astronomically. The latest major change to Louisiana election law, passed by the Legislature in the early days of Gov. Jeff Landry’s term, brought back party primaries, the system under which the current U.S. Senate race is being run. This time, there wasn’t even a good-government pretext. Everybody knew it was meant to defeat Sen. Bill Cassidy, and it did. The most recent change in the election process came last week, when the national Democratic Party adopted a new presidential primary schedule. State parties fight over the calendar because early primaries get more attention and have outsized influence on nominations. For decades, New Hampshire held the nation’s first presidential primary. Beginning in 1972, the Iowa caucuses emerged as a competitor, but procedural mishaps in recent caucuses have diminished Iowa’s credibility. Ron In 2024, Democrats cast aside New HampFaucheux shire as its first primary and gave that honor to South Carolina. Why? President Joe Biden wanted it that way. First, it was a thank you to South Carolina Democrats and U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn for the decisive primary victory they handed Biden in 2020. Second, it was meant to open the 2024 primary season with a guaranteed win for Biden. Third, it was recognition that New Hampshire lacks racial diversity; only about 1% of New Hampshire’s electorate is Black, compared to 26% in South Carolina. The third reason lives on, even now that Biden is out of the picture. Here’s another important fact: Black voters make up 26% of South Carolina’s overall electorate, but they made up 56% of the state’s Democratic primary electorate in 2020, according to exit polling. Why the difference? Most Black voters are Democrats. So, while Black voters represent a bit more a quarter of all voters in South Carolina, they represent more than half of the voters who participate in the Democratic primary. Under the newly adopted rules for 2028 Democratic delegate selection, South Carolina’s primary remains first, on Jan. 22. Nevada moves into second place, on Feb. 1. New Hampshire follows on Feb. 8, then New Mexico on Feb. 15, Michigan on Feb. 22 and Virginia on Feb. 29. New Mexico and Nevada make the early states’ list largely because of diversity and their location in the West: 43% of New Mexico’s eligible voters are Hispanic and nearly a third of Nevada’s are Hispanic or Black. Virginia — 19% Black, 5% Hispanic and 5% Asian — houses numerous federal employees, an important voter group for Democrats. Don’t discount the fact that Virginia is close to the nation’s capital, making it convenient for campaign consultants and party activists to go back and forth during the primary. It’s also a reward for Virginia’s shifting from red to blue in federal elections. Michigan’s electorate is 18% Black, Hispanic or Asian, and home to powerful labor unions. Moreover, it’s a voterich swing state. Which raises the question: Why didn’t Democrats select swing states for all six of their early presidential primaries? Wouldn’t that give Democratic candidates valuable familiarity in the states most likely to determine the general election? Why aren’t Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona in the first tier, alongside Michigan and Nevada? South Carolina isn’t a swing state; it voted Republican in the last 12 presidential elections, and Trump carried it by 18 points in 2024. Neither New Hampshire nor New Mexico are considered swing states; the former voted Democratic in the last six elections, and the latter in the last five. Did party leaders put identity politics ahead of generalelection strategy? You could make that case. But there’s another explanation: Putting all the early primaries in swing states would expose Democratic candidates to attacks from one another in the very states they would later need to win the general election. Those wounds could hurt more than the early exposure would help. According to T.S. Eliot, “The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.” In politics, it’s sometimes hard to know the right deed — and whether the reason is right or wrong. Even taking selfinterest into account, it’s still hard. Ron Faucheux is a nonpartisan political analyst, pollster and writer based in Louisiana.

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Insulin is not a luxury; legislation would cap the monthly cost

What will donors to Trump’s ballroom expect in return? A recent letter to the editor argued that ”no government money” is being used for the new White House ballroom. While the letter’s focus on accuracy is appreciated, official records show the claim is not entirely factual. Private donors are covering a substantial share of the ballroom itself, estimated at roughly $600 million. But that sits inside a greater effort. The Washington Post reporting from August 2026 puts total White House grounds construction, the ballroom, an underground complex, a new helipad, Lafayette Square and a visitor screening center at upward of $900 million, mostly taxpayer-funded. Roughly $500 million was transferred from the U.S. Secret Service and the White House Military Office, both taxpayer-funded agencies, and put into an account called ”White House Repair and Restoration” that normally holds about $2.5 million a year for routine upkeep. Since Trump took office, the administration has funneled $875

million into that account. The remaining funding comes from a small group of billionaires and corporations. Donors include Stephen Schwarzman, Harold Hamm and the Adelson family, as well as tech giants such as Amazon, Google and Meta. These “private” contributions raise serious ethical concerns. Nearly all corporate donors, including defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Palantir, have significant business before the federal government. These companies hold multi-billion-dollar contracts or face major antitrust litigation and regulatory reviews. By using a nonprofit to funnel these gifts, these contractors have largely avoided disclosing these payments in lobbying filings. Hundreds of millions in tax dollars are being spent alongside money from billionaires seeking government favor. This is what oligarchy in America looks like.

For more than two decades as a pharmacist in New Orleans East, I have seen how difﬁcult it can be for patients to afford the insulin they need to survive. Some have told me they take only half their prescribed dose to make a vial last longer. That is not a budgeting strategy; it is a medical emergency waiting to happen. People across Louisiana are being forced to choose between insulin, utility bills, groceries and gas. As a heart health advocate, I also know that the stress of affording lifesaving medication can place an additional burden on people who are already managing diabetes. Congress can help by passing the bipartisan Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now Act of 2026. The INSULIN Act would cap monthly out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 for people with private insurance and establish a pilot program to provide low-cost insulin to uninsured patients. I thank U.S. Sen. John Kennedy for supporting this legislation and urge other elected ofﬁcials to help move it forward. Insulin is not a luxury. Congress must act so that no Louisianan has to ration the medication that keeps them alive.

KARL ALBRITTON Central

Behind political fights, a disturbing trend I recently read a few articles that have upset me. I read that the governor was not talking to the mayor of New Orleans. I found it hard to understand why the governor was not speaking to the mayor of the most visited city in the state. As I read, it became obvious that some people believe the mayor has the ability to control a grand jury. It bothered me because I thought a grand jury was not under the control of the mayor but was an independent body of citizens who were empaneled to look at evidence and decide whether to move forward with indictments. I became upset as I read articles and learned that my brother, retired Judge Calvin Johnson, was, according to the attorney general, an innocent bystander. I could not understand why the attorney general felt the need to mention my brother, because he was only doing what the law allowed.

Today, with all the things going on, I am becoming very afraid for my people, especially as I see those in power constantly believe that only they have the sense and ability to make decisions, and the rest of us are incapable of reading and understanding what we read and are not capable of making decisions. I am afraid that students in school will not understand the three branches of government as I was taught and understand them. I am afraid that students in school will not develop the desire to participate in those branches of government because they will become discouraged. According to Lord Acton, in his correspondence with the historian Bishop Mandell Creighton: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” I pray we are not there.

ALISHA REED New Orleans

Why did Trump abandon staff on plane? So, is everyone else just live bait? If President Donald Trump believed there was a credible threat to his life, why did he sneak off Air Force One and leave everyone else to suffer the consequences? Hmmm.

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Charlie Weis Jr. is no stranger to this strange land. The 33-year-old play-caller entered LSU’s offensive meeting room Friday morning and saw several familiar faces from his days at Ole Miss. Eight staff members in all followed Lane Kifﬁn to Baton Rouge, including six on the offensive side. Weis has the unenviable task of coaching up quarterbacks and receivers who have spent as little time in the Bayou as him. But he’s not coaching up the coaches, whether that’s George McDonald (receivers), Kevin Smith (running backs) or Joe Cox (tight ends). “I could come in and go, ‘Hey guys, we’re going to run this. Remember we ran this in 2024 against whoever?’ ” Weis said. “And they could be like, ‘Yeah. Got it. Let’s go.’ “ The institutional knowledge that’s migrated from Oxford, Mississippi, to Baton Rouge has helped Weis play a game of catch-up. Not only was LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt limited in the spring as he recovered from a foot injury but Weis’ offense also has been pitted against a Tigers defense that heads into Year 3 under coordinator Blake Baker.

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Saints safety Jonas Sanker runs through drills on Aug. 3 at training camp in Metairie. AP PHOTO By GERALD HERBERT

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Tulane quarterback Trace Johnson throws the ball to a receiver on Aug. 11 during practice drills at yulman Stadium.

Out of QB1 running, Tulane freshman still impresses BY GUERRY SMITH

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — This isn’t where the star was born, but it is where it took off — and where, currently, we are seeing its latest iteration take shape. Brandon Staley’s ﬁrst opportunity to call defensive plays in the NFL came here, with the Los Angeles Rams in 2020. At that point, he’d spent only three seasons as an NFL position coach, all under Vic Fangio with the Bears and Broncos. Staley’s defensive structure was heavily supported by that Fangio tree, but he also incorporated a bit from his time coaching Division III John Carroll University. Staley, now the New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator, carried the star position with him from John Carroll. It’s not just a slot cornerback; Staley calls it a “featured position” in his defense, a sort of hybrid player who can

cover like a corner but bring a linebacker’s thump to run support. This year, Staley is trying out a new player in his featured position: Second-year defensive back Jonas Sanker, who impressed when pressed into duty early in his rookie season — at safety. It’s a big transition, but nothing that has transpired since the Saints took the field this summer has convinced Staley the job is too big for Sanker. “He’s a player,” Staley said. “And what you really need in there is you need a player. You need a guy that can play and figure things out quickly, and he has that.” The Saints need Sanker to figure it out fast, but he has help, because he’s far from the only player on his own team who has made the transition from safety to star. He’s not even the first to have done it under Staley — Terrell

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RB Miller, kickers among Saints’ points of interest BY MATTHEW PARAS

mara, if he can avoid injured reserve with his sprained MCL, ﬁgures to be as well. That leaves Miller, Chandler, undrafted rookie C.J. Donaldson and veteran Audric Estime — who won’t play Saturday because of a foot injury — to vie for one or two spots. The pressure is on. Here are four other topics to consider entering Saturday’s exhibition.

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Quarterbacks Zeon Chriss-Gremillion and Kadin Semonza will continue their twoway battle to start the season opener when Tulane conducts its second and final camp scrimmage Saturday morning, but coach Will Hall has not forgotten about freshman Trace Johnson. Johnson, at 6-foot-1 and the best pure passer on the roster, continues to impress with his work ethic. The Green Wave’s potential quarterback of the future is doing everything in his power to make his wait a short one. “He’s got it, whatever it is,” Hall said Monday. “He’s just extremely driven. At 5 a.m. this morning I was making a cup of coffee in the (football) offices and he was in there watching film. He has a bright, bright future. He made another step forward today and has a chance to be a great player if he stays healthy.” Johnson took that extra video session soon after learning he was not in the running for the top spot for Week 1 after the quarterbacks split repetitions four ways (Dagan Bruno was the fourth) through last

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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Earlier this month, New Orleans Saints running backs coach Joel Thomas was asked about Kendre Miller and whether the oft-injured running back faced any pressure to return as fast as he could from the back injury that had him sidelined. The assistant coach didn’t disagree with the premise. “Well, the pressure should be on himself,” Thomas said Aug. 11. “The NFL doesn’t stop for anybody.” Miller would miss another week, marking a 13-day absence amid a competitive battle at his position. But after returning to practice Tuesday, the 24-year-old has a chance to prove that he still belongs in the NFL. And he’ll get to make his latest argument in Saturday’s preseason game against the Los Angeles Rams. With the starters resting, Miller is in line to get ample opportunities. But so are Devin Neal and Ty Chandler, two other running backs ﬁghting for

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Saints running back Kendre Miller runs a drill during training camp on July 29 in Metairie.

a roster spot. How the Saints sort out their running back room is one of the biggest remaining questions before they’ll make cuts to set their initial 53-man roster by the Aug. 30 deadline. Will they keep four backs or just three? Travis Etienne is a lock. Alvin Ka-

The kicking competition has been tight throughout training camp, but Charlie Smyth is at risk of falling behind if he can’t generate some positive momentum against the Rams. Smyth missed a 52-yard ﬁeld goal in last week’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars and has been in a bit of a slump over the last two weeks. Tanner Brown, challenging Smyth, hasn’t run away with the job in that stretch. But he has been the more consistent of the two. Neither got a lot of opportunities to kick during

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Texas Tech eyes another Big 12 title ByU looks to continue momentum after 12-win season BY STEPHEN HAWKINS Associated Press

The Big 12 Conference has had six different champions in the past six seasons. While No. 12 Texas Tech seeks a repeat after winning its ﬁrst Big 12 title and making the College Football Playoff, teams like No. 14 BYU, No. 21 Utah and No. 23 Houston could make a push to extend the league’s streak to seven. “We want to do something that very few teams have been able to do, and that’s to win the Big 12 championship again,” Tech coach Joey McGuire said. The Red Raiders reloaded again through the transfer portal after setting school records with 12 wins and nine NFL draft picks. Will Hammond is healthy after an ACL injury last season and will start at quarterback after the offseason legal saga surrounding transfer Brendan Sorsby, who was declared ineligible by the NCAA because of gambling. BYU is coming off its ﬁrst 12win season since 2001, and both its losses were to Texas Tech, 29-7 in Lubbock, then 34-7 in the Big 12 title game. “We know that last year was some really cool things, some awesome success,” 11th-year Cougars coach Kalani Sitake said. “At the same time, we know what we can do better.” The Cougars return Big 12 rushing leader LJ Martin (1,305 yards, 12 TDs rushing) and QB Bear Bachmeier, who threw for 3,033 yards, ran for 527 and accounted for 26 TDs (15 passing, 11 rushing) after being thrust into the starting role as a freshman. Houston went from four wins to 10 in its second season with coach Willie Fritz and returns dual-

Less than two weeks after coach Will Wade added Skyy Clark to LSU’s roster, his former teammate joins the program. UCLA transfer Donovan Dent is the latest to commit to LSU, the point guard announced on Instagram on Friday. The 6-foot-2, 185-pound point guard played his senior season last year and is eligible to play another season. The UCLA transfer was among more than 70 players granted a temporary restraining order in an age-based eligibility lawsuit ﬁled in California against the NCAA, according to the Texas Trial Group, which represented these players. Dent averaged 13.3 points on 49% shooting from the ﬁeld, 7.6 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game last season.

ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ to attend LSU-Ole Miss

ESPN’s “College GameDay” crew will be on location in Oxford, Mississippi, for LSU’s Week 3 contest at Ole Miss, the network announced Friday. The game will be Lane Kiffin’s return to the stadium where he coached six seasons. Kiffin stirred up controversy by leaving Ole Miss ahead of a College Football Playoff run to become LSU’s head coach. This means two of the Tigers’ first three games will have the national spotlight because “GameDay” is already slated to be in Baton Rouge for LSU’s opener against Clemson. Kiffin is under immense pressure to perform in his debut season following LSU’s decision to relieve Brian Kelly of his duties with $54 million remaining on his contract.

Top-ranked Sinner exits U.S. Open with knee injury ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By GEORGE FREy

ByU quarterback Bear Bachmeier, left, hands the ball off to running back LJ Martin during a game against Utah on Oct. 18 in Provo, Utah. threat QB Conner Weigman (3,405 total yards and 36 TDs.) Utah has 82% of its total offense back (QBs Devon Dampier and Byrd Ficklin, and RB Wayshawn Parker) from an 11-win team, but two offensive linemen were first-round NFL draft picks and coach Kyle Whittingham left after 22 seasons for Michigan.

Out west Arizona quarterback Noah Fiﬁta, the national active leader with 73 TD passes, is a rarity going into his fourth season starting for the same team. With him back and the unexpected return of leading rusher Ismail Mahdi, the Wildcats hope to build on a 9-4 ﬁnish and be a Big 12 contender. Arizona State won the Big 12 title and made the playoff in its league debut in 2024. The injury-plagued Sun Devils weren’t able to repeat last year and now are without QB Sam Leavitt (transfer to LSU) and

receiver Jordyn Tyson (ﬁrst-round NFL pick by New Orleans). Deion Sanders, who last year had surgery for bladder cancer, said he feels like his old self going into his fourth season at Colorado. He hired new offensive and defensive coordinators after a ﬁvegame losing streak to end last season with a 1-8 conference record. He is 16-21 overall with the Buffs.

New faces The Big 12’s four new head coaches include Kansas State’s Collin Klein and Utah’s Morgan Scalley at their alma maters replacing their former bosses. Jimmy Rogers took over at Iowa State when Matt Campbell left after 10 seasons for Penn State, and Eric Morris is at Oklahoma State. Klein had been gone for two seasons as Texas A&M’s offensive coordinator when Chris Klieman suddenly retired from K-State. Scalley was Utah’s defensive

coordinator when Whittingham resigned. Rogers won an FCS national championship three seasons ago as head coach at his alma mater, South Dakota State, and was at Washington State last year. Oklahoma State’s 88 newcomers include 21 who came with Morris from North Texas, which lost to Tulane in the American Conference championship to miss out on a CFP berth. Among the Mean Green transfers were QB Drew Mestemaker, the national passing leader with 4,379 yards as a freshman, RB Caleb Hawkins (1,434 yards and FBS-best 25 TDs rushing as a freshman) and WR Wyatt Young (70 catches, 1,264 yards, 10 TDs). This is the ﬁrst time since 2004 the Cowboys enter a season without Mike Gundy as head coach. They have lost 19 conference games in a row, with consecutive 0-9 conference records since a 4921 loss to Texas in the 2023 Big 12 championship game.

Ole Miss QB welcomes pressure of his fame Chambliss aims to refine his game after risky plays BY BRETT MARTEL Associated Press

When Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss watches the Houdini acts from last season that made him a college football sensation, there is a part of him that would rather avoid doing that again. The ability to escape converging pass-rushers, and seemingly ad-lib his way into clutch gains on the ground or through the air, was never more evident than during the Rebels’ CFP quarterfinal victory over favored Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. When Chambliss saw the postgame highlights, one of his first thoughts was: “That was kind of dumb in the moment. Like, if I would have gotten sacked or I would have fallen down, I’m putting myself — and I’m putting my team — in a really bad position.” Chambliss appreciates that some of the crazy plays he pulled off during a heady first season with Ole Miss have inspired analysts to refer to him as “the

LSU men’s hoops gains another UCLA transfer

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Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss throws during the Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff quarterfinal game against Georgia on Jan. 1 at the Superdome.

face of college football” in 2026. EA Sports even considered putting Chambliss on the cover of a new edition of its popular college football video game, but decided against it because of a legal dispute with the NCAA over whether he would be eligible to play this season. As Chambliss enters his ﬁnal season, with Ole Miss ranked ninth in the preseason AP Top 25 poll, he aims to work with new offensive coordinator John David

Baker on a more mature, composed and reﬁned style of play. “I’m trying to attack this year more as a pro ... knowing that I’ll be draft eligible and I’ll be going to the NFL,” Chambliss said. “So, just making sure that my football IQ is increasing, leadership role is increasing, and just clean up the little details as a quarterback and as a leader on the team.” In 2024, Chambliss played at Division II Ferris State in his native Michigan. Before that, he says he nearly quit football in favor of playing point guard for a Division III basketball program. But after leading Ferris State to a Division II national title, he took an offer to be a projected backup at Ole Miss in 2025. An injury to season-opening starter Austin Simmons thrust Chambliss into the spotlight, and his ability to run circles around frustrated pass-rushers while ﬁnding receivers breaking open downfield made him such a hit in Oxford, Mississippi, that fans there began flying flags of his namesake Caribbean island nation, Trinidad and Tobago. “The Ole Miss fans, they’re very creative and it’s awesome to see,” Chambliss said. Meanwhile, Chambliss said that while serving as a counselor at the Manning Passing Academy in Thibodaux this summer, he met a

Trinidad and Tobago native who told him that many in his country have become captivated by Ole Miss football in the past year. All that attention can mean a lot of pressure for a quarterback who doesn’t even have one full season as an FBS starter on his resume yet. “Pressure is a privilege. I prayed to be in this situation,” Chambliss said. “It’s what I’ve asked for. So, I’ve just got to do what I’ve been taught to do, what I’ve been doing my whole life, which is just play ball.” This year, Chambliss could have opted to transfer to any number of programs, including perhaps LSU, where his former coach, Lane Kifﬁn, accepted a job right after the 2025 regular season. That led Ole Miss to order Kifﬁn out immediately and promote defensive coordinator Pete Golding as Kiffin’s successor heading into the 2025 postseason. But Chambliss wanted the chance to capitalize on what he accomplished at Ole Miss, to honor relationships there and leave a more lasting legacy. “If you know me, you know that I’m a very loyal person. I value relationships a lot,” Chambliss said. “There was just too much at Ole Miss and too many relationships that I couldn’t just throw away.”

NEW YORK — Top-ranked Jannik Sinner withdrew from the U.S. Open on Friday, unable to recover from a right knee injury that has sidelined him since winning the Wimbledon title. Sinner beat Alexander Zverev last month for his second straight title at the All England Club, but then pulled out of the hard-court tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati that serve as a warmup for the U.S. Open. The 25-year-old Italian wrote in a post on X on Friday that he won’t be ready when the main draw begins on Aug. 30. It will be the ﬁrst time Sinner has missed a Grand Slam tournament since making his major debut at the U.S. Open in 2019.

DeRozan, Nuggets agree on 1-year deal for $3.9M

DENVER — DeMar DeRozan has agreed to sign a one-year contract with the Denver Nuggets worth the veteran minimum of $3.9 million, a person with knowledge of the deal said Friday. It will be DeRozan’s fifth team in his 18th season for a six-time AllStar looking for his first championship. The addition of DeRozan gives the Nuggets a veteran backcourt presence after sending young, versatile wing Peyton Watson to Cleveland as part of a four-team trade. DeRozan, the ninth overall pick by Toronto in 2009, spent his first nine seasons with the Raptors, only to get traded to San Antonio for Kawhi Leonard as his former team won the title in Leonard’s only season in 2018-19.

Mavs buy out Thompson, who intends to join Heat

DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks and Klay Thompson have agreed on a contract buyout, ending a twoyear tenure that was wrecked by the shocking trade of Luka Doncic. Thompson intends to sign with the Miami Heat once he clears waivers, according to a person familiar with the ﬁve-time All-Star’s plans. Assuming he is not claimed by another club, Thompson may be able to sign with the Heat as early as Sunday. The buyout announcement comes after the Mavericks missed the playoffs in both of Thompson’s seasons, which came after Doncic led Dallas to the NBA Finals in 2024. Thompson joined Dallas in a sign-and-trade with Golden State, giving the Mavericks one of the league’s all-time great 3-point shooters to complement Doncic.

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NCAA gets federal win on 5-year eligibility rule BY EDDIE PELLS AP national writer

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LSU head coach Lane Kiffin walks on the field between periods of preseason practice Monday. The Tigers added former Notre Dame defensive end Junior Tuihalamaka on Friday.

LSU adds 5th-year DE after court ruling BY JON BLAU Staff writer

Just two days after a Louisiana court ruled 16 former college football players eligible for another season of competition, LSU has added one of them for the 2026 season. Former Notre Dame defensive end Junior Tuihalamaka announced Friday on his Instagram account that he has committed to the Tigers. Tuihalamaka collected 61 tackles, including nine for loss, in four seasons with the Fighting Irish from 2022-25. The 6-foot-2, 255-pound Californian played in 12 games for Notre Dame last season, including three starts. Prior to this year, NCAA athletes had five years to play four seasons, barring medical redshirts or additional years granted after the COVID-19 pandemic. The NCAA recently changed its eligibility model, allowing athletes five years to play five seasons. But the NCAA didn’t offer another year to the Class of 2022 recruits who had exhausted their eligibility. That prompted another wave of lawsuits, including Wednesday’s filing in Baton Rouge that resulted in a judge granting a temporary restraining order against the NCAA. Four ex-LSU athletes were among the plaintiffs, including defensive end Jack Pyburn, who is currently on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers roster as an undrafted free agent. Unlike Pyburn, Tuihalamaka

wasn’t rostered by an NFL team, though the judge’s order said an athlete can return to the college ranks if his contract was terminated and he paid back whatever he earned as a pro. The judge’s ruling also demanded the NCAA allow the plaintiffs access to the transfer portal, which closed for football players on Jan. 16. It also nullified NCAA penalties against programs signing “ghost transfers” who hadn’t entered the portal previously. LSU coach Lane Kiffin declined Thursday to discuss the newly eligible seniors from the Louisiana lawsuit, which also includes three players who started for Kiffin at Ole Miss in 2025. But he did hint that a move could be coming when he answered another question about the Tigers’ depth along the offensive line. “Normally we’d say our team is our team, and so it’s what we got. But I guess that potentially changed yesterday,” Kiffin said with a laugh. LSU had an obvious need at defensive end. Aside from transfers Princewill Umanmielen (Ole Miss) and Jordan Ross (Tennessee), the Tigers are looking at a five-star recruit, Lamar Brown, to potentially play meaningful snaps as a freshman. The defensive end rotation became shallower when Gabriel Reliford tore his ACL in the spring; the Tigers also have been without redshirt freshman Damien Shanklin, though Kiffin has not explained why he’s been absent from preseason camp.

LSU

Continued from page 1C Reading between the lines of Kiffin’s statements in camp, it appears the defense is ahead of the offense. But there was a rally by Weis’ unit, Kiffin said, after some struggles early in last Saturday’s scrimmage. Leavitt, who couldn’t push off of his surgically repaired foot with full force in the spring, is starting to make some “adult throws” that show off his arm strength, Kiffin said. The process of rebuilding the LSU offense has been as efficient as the inefficiencies of a rehabbing quarterback, completely revamped receiving corps and slightly reworked offensive line have allowed. But the continuity of the coaching staff has helped. “There’s still work to be done in terms of establishing the depth chart … and that moves throughout the season, too, as players step up and make plays,” Weis said. “But in terms of the scheme and kind of knowing who we’re gonna be, I do feel pleased in where we’re at.” It’s not hard for Kiffin and Weis to be on the same page. They go back to 2015 when Kiffin was the offensive coordinator at Alabama and Weis, formerly a manager at Kansas under his dad, joined the Crimson Tide as an offensive analyst. They’ve periodically parted ways, Weis joining Steve Sarkisian with the Atlanta Falcons in 2017 before he rejoined Kiffin at Florida Atlantic as offensive coordinator. Weis didn’t tag along initially when Kiffin went to Ole Miss, spending a couple of seasons at South Florida before he landed in Oxford in 2022.

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LSU offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. watches a drill on Friday at the team’s practice facility.

“His wife holds that against me at times,” Kiffin joked Thursday. Kiffin made things a bit stressful when he left Ole Miss before the College Football Playoff and Weis contemplated staying or leaving. Weis was too focused on the here and now Friday to reminisce on a tumultuous season that probably aged him 10 years. This season’s task could age him as well. The LSU offense was dreadful last season, ranking in the bottom third of college football at just under 23 points per game. Expectations for this season far exceed that because Ole Miss averaged 36 points per contest in Weis’ four years alongside Kiffin in Oxford. Those years also included Smith, McDonald and Cox, as well as quarterbacks coach Dane Stevens, who helped mold the likes of Jaxson Dart and Trinidad Chambliss. “I can trust them to get it done the right way,” Weis said. “Very, very fortunate to have the staff that we have.” Building chemistry with a remade roster takes time, though.

Tuihalamaka would add depth, but it remains unclear how everything will work out in court. A federal, class-wide restraining order for Class of 2022 athletes out of Colorado was just stayed Friday by an appeals court. That means fifth-year athletes who used up their four seasons are no longer eligible — unless a state court, like in Louisiana, granted them a restraining order. But the restraining order in Louisiana is temporary, and an Aug. 31 hearing in Baton Rouge will allow the NCAA to argue its side and bring up the stay granted in the Colorado case. During basketball season, Alabama was able to make former G League center Charles Bediako eligible via a court ruling, but that held up for only five games before he was deemed ineligible again. Kiffin was asked Thursday how much clarity he needed on an athlete’s eligibility to add them to the roster. “There’s a lot into that and the questions that come from that,” Kiffin said. “Fair question, but I’m not going to comment on any of it because there’s just too many directions of questions I can go to.” A day later, Kiffin made a move. Notre Dame didn’t bring back Tuihalamaka because head coach Marcus Freeman doesn’t think it makes sense to add athletes this late. “I don’t think it would put a person in a good situation this late, school starts on Monday, to have success in the classroom and on the field,” Freeman said. “That’s kind of been our stance with it.”

Especially with the LSU quarterbacks, who are on a headset with Weis and Kiffin before every play. That’s where Leavitt’s experience as a two-year starter at Arizona State has helped. “He likes to be very involved,” Weis said. “It’s really fun being in the quarterback room when you’ve got a really veteran, experienced guy that understands football at a really high level and you can kind of bounce things off of each other.” In turn, Leavitt has been finding a connection with his top target, Trey’Dez Green. “He’ll just go all day if you let him,” Weis said of the 6-foot-7 tight end’s work ethic. “What’s cool, too, is how much he can handle mentally putting on his plate, which allows us the ability to put him in a lot of different positions and do some really cool things with him.” The other particulars of the offense are a bit opaque heading into a Sept. 5 opener against Clemson. Weis likes the depth of the LSU receivers, but he’s still waiting to “iron out” who will be their top contributors. Jordan Seaton afforded the offensive line a pillar at left tackle, but left guard Bo Bordelon and right tackle Weston Davis aren’t especially proven and Kiffin has expressed concerns about the depth behind the top five. This season will reveal where the Tigers stand, and Weis is ready for it. And he’s definitely ready to match wits against somebody other than the LSU defensive coordinator. “I’m about ready to start working on somebody else other than coach Baker,” Weis said, “because we’ve been going at it, it feels like, for 50 practices.”

DENVER — The NCAA notched an important win in federal court Friday over its much-disputed five-year eligibility rule, though it fell short of shutting down the last-minute shuffling threatening to upend college sports rosters with football season fast approaching. A 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals halted, for now, a judge’s order that would have granted thousands of athletes an extra season of eligibility. But it did nothing to resolve dozens of other lawsuits and court orders piling up across the country that allow players in the same situation to join teams for the upcoming season. Virtually all these lawsuits involve players who graduated from high school in 2022, whose college eligibility ended last season and who were not included in the NCAA’s controversial new rule — less than 2 months old — that grants most Division I athletes five years of eligibility over five years but doesn’t take effect until next season. “There’s a reason we saw so many state-court lawsuits filed” after the now-paused federal court ruling that came down July 31, said Sam Ehrlich, a former lawyer who now works at Boise State and operates the College Sports Litigation Tracker. “It was a ‘just in case.’ They did it just in case what we just saw happen actually happened.” Among the many athletes watching this unfold and wondering where it winds up are defensive linemen Kellan Wyatt and Stephan Daley, both members of the national championship team at Indiana last season who decided to return after the lower-court decision. So are former Ole Miss starters Dae’Quan Wright, Zxavian Harris and Wydett Williams, who won a ruling from a Louisiana state court giving them another season of eligibility even though they had signed with NFL teams

this summer. While some players hope to land back at their schools, whatever the impact on the rosters, how that works isn’t at all clear in many cases. The judge in the case involving the Ole Miss players, for example, gave them a week to enter the transfer portal, which for football players is only open in January. In appealing the state court cases, the NCAA is expected to invoke parts of Friday’s ruling, which agreed with NCAA arguments that it was likely to win the case when it’s heard in full — probably several months from now — and that the NCAA would suffer more harm than the players if the court didn’t pause the order. The NCAA can also take heart in an Ohio appeals court that paused a similar injunction involving Xavier basketball player Filip Borovicanin and others. But other than those two cases, Ehrlich said, judges across the country “are unanimous that the NCAA is in the wrong” on the five-year eligibility issue when it comes to the Class of 2022. Plaintiffs’ attorney Rob Shelquist issued a statement calling the appeals court ruling procedural and “not a decision on the merits of the athletes’ antitrust claims.” “We are exploring every available option given the split in the panel’s ruling and remain committed to fighting for these college athletes whose opportunities and eligibility have been unfairly restricted,” he said. The NCAA’s chief legal officer, Scott Bearby, sent a memo to schools telling them they would not be subject to NCAA punishment for allowing any player to compete between the time the July 31 ruling came down and Friday. But he reiterated that those players are no longer eligible. Bearby also acknowledged that the NCAA would continue to defend lawsuits around the country — a signal that the NCAA knows Friday’s ruling offers no guarantees of an end to the roster chaos.

TULANE

Continued from page 1C Saturday’s scrimmage. Although Johnson committed to Tulane under former coach Jon Sumrall, he likes everything he has seen from Hall since his first spring practice as an early enrollee. “Coach Hall has been a blessing in my life,” Johnson said. “I’m super happy to have him and be in his offense.” Chriss-Gremillion and Semonza will get the majority of the work in Saturday’s scrimmage, as they have since Monday, and will be 1-2 in one order or the other when Tulane releases an official depth chart Monday. That listing will be relevant for only two weeks, though. Performance will dictate the pecking order when the season starts, and Johnson feels he has learned enough to be ready if called upon. “He’s an intense competitor,” Hall said. “Great accuracy. Really athletic. And then he walks around with a chip on his shoulder every day. He’s one of those guys like me. He knows if he was 3 inches taller, he would have had five stars to his name (in recruiting rankings). He wants every day to prove he is that guy.”

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Tulane offensive lineman Elijah Baker takes a break during a scrimmage on Aug. 16, 2025, at yulman Stadium.

play,” Hall said. “He’s kind of a natural at it. We wanted to get some work with him there. We are trying to build depth while we can in all phases, particularly with the O-line. People get bumped and bruised.” Whether or not Bock will be healthy for the opener remains to be determined. The other option at center is Mercer transfer Gavin Marks. Mickow moved inside Friday to make room for the 6-7, 314-pound Reed, who started three games last year. “Reed’s the next guy up,” Hall said. “He’s in our top six. If something happens and the sixth guy has to go in, that would be Darion. He’s playing really well and he’s changed his body.”

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Pressure kicks

Partly because of an injury and partly because of depth building, Tulane has experimented with different offensive line combinations this week. Ryan Mickow, a Boston College transfer who has been ﬁrst-team right tackle since arriving in the spring semester, practiced at left tackle on Thursday at the Saints’ indoor facility. Center John Bock departed that workout early with a left foot injury, and he watched Friday’s practice on a scooter while normal starting right guard Reese Baker replaced him at center and Mickow moved to right guard. Darion Reed lined up at right tackle on both days. The other two first-team players Friday were Dominic Steward at his regular left tackle spot and Gresham Perry at left guard. Perry is in for an injured Elijah Baker. In the past 12 months, Reese Baker has played tackle, where he started 13 times in 2025; guard, where he moved during spring practice; and now center. “That’s a position Reese can

When the defense forced two long field goals during a two-minute drill Friday at Yulman Stadium, kickers Jackson Courville and Cooper Helmke delivered on both of them. The offense had only 25 seconds to drive into field goal range with a three-point deficit. It reached the defense’s 25-yard line on the first possession before Courville hit a 43-yarder. The offense stalled at the defense’s 39 on the second series, but Helmke, who has tremendous leg strength, boomed a 57-yarder that barely cleared the crossbar. “The two great kickers made them,” Hall said. “It was great to see.” At punter, walk-on sophomore William Hudlow is ahead of freshman Brooks Moore. “He’s been here longer and he’s been a little more consistent,” Hall said of Hudlow. “He had one that wasn’t great today, but he countered right back. He’s gotten so much better at letting the previous play go whether it’s good or bad.”

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THE VARSITY ZONE FOOTBALL PRE VIEW n DISTRICT 9-4A

They call him ‘Fred Money’

Carver’s do-it-all star Barra ready for even bigger role BY CHRISTOPHER DABE Staff writer

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Kennedy coach Lynarise Elpheage, a former Tulane receiver, has two college-committed receivers in Semaj Lyons and Ronald Cash.

LOOKING BACK McDonogh 35 Last year: 7-4 (first round), 4-0 in 10-4A Carver Last year: 7-4 (regionals), 3-1 in 10-4A Kennedy Last year: 7-5 (regionals), 4-1 in 10-3A Abramson Last year: 6-5 (first round), 1-3 in 10-4A McMain Last year: 0-10, 0-4 in 10-4A

PLAYERS TO WATCH Jhimil Anderson TE/DL | McDonogh 35, Sr. The all-district offensive lineman has “slimmed up and is playing some tight end,” coach Nick Foster said. He also will play on the defensive line. Freddie Barra WR/DB | Carver, Sr. The all-district offensive MVP and Alcorn State commitment accounted for more than 1,200 yards from scrimmage and 15 total touchdowns, four of them on kickoff and punt returns. Semaj Lyons WR | Kennedy, Sr. The South Alabama commitment and his teammate, Nicholls State commitment Ronald Cash, were both all-district selections last season. Leonard Watson QB | Carver, Jr. The 6-foot-7 lefty threw for 1,993 yards and 23 touchdowns, making him an alldistrict selection. Jaylin Williams WR/DB | McMain, Jr. The all-district kick returner selection will play wide receiver and cornerback.“We expect him to do the same thing this year,” coach Darian Hays said about his return skills. Michael Tobias also will play both ways. Christopher Dabe

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L.B. Landry coach Nick Foster gives encouragement during practice on Aug. 14, 2025. Foster, who also coached at St. Augustine, is now the coach at McDonogh 35.

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW 1. Coach Nick Foster’s first game at McDonogh 35 will come against St. Augustine, the school Foster coached over four seasons from 2020-23. He coached the past two seasons at L.B. Landry, improving from 2-7 in 2024 to 5-6 and a share of the district title in 2025. 2. Kennedy and Douglass have merged into one school located at Kennedy’s Gentilly campus under the Kennedy school name. Joining Kennedy from Douglass are all-district selections Daniel Smith at running back and Delontae Johnson at defensive back. Douglass went 5-5 with a 2-2 District 10-4A record last season. 3. Other returning all-district players include McDonogh 35’s Cameron Banks at linebacker and Chris Cloudie

at defensive back. McMain offensive lineman Li’Nathan Robinson also earned all-district honors last season. 4. Starting quarterbacks returning from last season include Carver’s Watson, Kennedy senior Dorrian Dunham, McDonogh 35 senior Deddrick Peters and Abramson sophomore Mynue Zeno. Zeno became the starter after Week 3 last season, coach Gil Chartain said. 5. Kennedy coach Lynarise Elpheage and Abramson coach Gil Chartain spent several seasons on the staff together at Carver as offensive and defensive coordinators.They’ll be on opposing sidelines as head coaches for the first time in Week 10.“It’s going to be fun,” Elpheage said. Christopher Dabe

Freddie Barra was the first to finish Carver’s 110yard conditioning sprints in the humid New Orleans summer heat — always in less than 13 seconds. He did this repeatedly, building the endurance that convinced coach Luis Figueroa that Barra could handle a full-time role at wide receiver and cornerback while also returning kickoffs and punts. It’s a significant expansion of the role held by the senior and Alcorn State commitment, last season’s all-district offensive MVP. “If you look in the mirror, his reflection would be a dog,” Carver quarterback Leonard Watson said. “He really wants it. First in sprints. First on the field. First catching passes.” Those 110-yard sprints were only part of Barra’s offseason regimen. “It’s just constant, on the field and in the weight room,” Figueroa said. Barra began playing football under the guidance of his father, Freddie Franklin, a former Carver running back who played in the mid-2000s at Louisiana Tech. Barra’s mother, Ashley Barra, keeps him driven toward success. “She can’t let me be lazy,” Freddie Barra said. Whenever he’s at home with nothing to do, “She makes me go on a 10-minute run. She makes me do certain things to keep me in shape.” With more than 1,200 yards from scrimmage and 15 total touchdowns, including four on kickoff and punt returns, Barra’s speed and conditioning translated to big plays last season. In a first-round playoff game, Barra took a pass from Watson nearly the length of the field for a touchdown.

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Carver senior Freddie Barra had more than 1,200 yards from scrimmage last season with 15 total touchdowns, including four on kickoff and punt returns.

“We were backed up on the 1-yard line,” Watson said, recalling how Barra shifted from the backfield to the slot and beat his defender on a fade-corner route. “He had him beat by a step,” Watson said. “I gave him a good ball — outside shoulder. I don’t think he knew the defender was there. He took it to the crib.” That’s the type of play that earned Barra the nickname “Fred Money.” Barra’s first varsity touchdown came as a sophomore. “He kept asking for a nickname,” said Figueroa, who creates nicknames for players to help distinguish them from one another. “When you score your first varsity touchdown, I’ve got a nickname for you,” he told Barra. Barra ran to the sideline as soon as he scored, momentarily forgetting that he was the holder on extra points. When he returned to the sideline a second time, Figueroa told him, “You’re Fred Money.” “That’s been my name ever since,” Barra said. Barra hears that name over the public address system whenever he makes a big play. “That’s our money right there,” Watson said. Contact Christopher Dabe at cdabe@theadvocate.com

“If you look in the mirror, his reflection would be a dog. He really wants it. First in sprints. First on the field. First catching passes.” LEONARD WATSON, Carver quarterback

Clark making it look easy at BMW Championship Woodland hasn’t been the PGA Tour in 2019. wind, and he’s in prime posiAmerican builds narrow lead; Kansas native Woodland 1 back there in six years, and while Another shot behind at tion at the BMW Champion-

BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer

ST. LOUIS — Wyndham Clark made it through another bogey-free round at Bellerive on Friday, posting a second straight 6-under 64 to build a oneshot lead over Gary Woodland Wo o d l a n d going into the weekend at the BMW Championship. He might need to brace for another gallery supporting the other guy. Woodland grew up just under four hours away — one of the few times Missouri likes someone from Kansas — and is on the cusp of making it to the Tour Championship all while coping with side effects from his 2023 brain surgery. Woodland birdied his last two holes, belting a 2-iron into the 608-yard 17th hole

he has looked great for two days, there are reminders that keeping his heart rate and energy under control is a constant battle. After ripping his tee shot on the 18th, Woodland sat down. “I’m tired,” he said after his round with a grin. His post-round routine includes sitting in a cool, dark room and trying to reset his brain. Adding to the pressure is trying to move from No. 31 into East Lake. “My focus right now is one ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS By JEFF ROBERSON day at a time. I don’t have that luxury to look ahead,” Wyndham Clark walks on the 14th fairway during the Woodland said. “I’ve got to second round of the BMW Championship on Friday in St. focus on making sure I take Louis. Clark shot a second straight 64 to take the lead. care of myself right now. and stuffing a wedge to 8 and the two-time U.S. Open (Saturday’s) a new day, and feet on the 18th for a 65. champion is tough when he hopefully I get some rest toClark, who endured a New starts heating up. night and I’ll show up tomorYork gallery pulling for Clark was at 12-under 128. row and see how it comes.” Scottie Scheffler at the U.S. J.J. Spaun had a 66 on his Those who still have plenOpen, has looked comfort- 36th birthday and was two ty of work ahead of them inable over 36 holes. His only shots behind. All three of clude Sungjae Im, who had a real stress over a par came them are already assured 64 and was three shots back. on the 10th hole Thurs- of finishing in the top 30 in Im is at No. 40 as he tries to day when he had to make the FedEx Cup and advance extend his streak of reachan 18-foot putt. He has no to the FedEx Cup finale next ing the Tour Championship complaints about his game, week at East Lake in Atlanta. every season since he joined

8-under 132 were Patrick Cantlay (No. 43) with a 65 and Rocket Classic winner Michael Thorbjornsen (No. 41) with a 66. Clark has no such concerns at No. 5 in the FedEx Cup, a product of winning the U.S. Open and blowing away the field in The CJ Cup Byron Nelson. Plus, he is helped by getting a harsh reminder to stick to golf. Clark agreed to throw out the first pitch at a Detroit Tigers game when he was at the Rocket Classic. He warmed up about 20 minutes before his big moment, started feeling good, and decided to throw a little harder. His pitch was right down the middle. It was the day after that got him. “I woke up the next day and, oh my gosh, my arm was hurting,” he said. Clark went on to miss the cut at the Rocket Classic. But he tied for ﬁfth in the PGA Tour playoffs opener last week at the TPC South-

ship. He can’t catch Scottie Scheffler at No. 1 — Scheffler already is assured the $23 million bonus for leading the points race going to East Lake — and anyone at the Tour Championship only has to win to capture the FedEx Cup. Scheffler is still battling an illness. He spoke quietly and quickly, though at least he had something to talk about. He recovered from his 72 with a 65, though he actually lost ground on the lead because of Clark. Scheffler was nine shots behind. Rory McIlroy managed only two birdies in his round of 69 and was five shots back. This is a big opportunity for Woodland, the 36-hole leader at Bellerive in the 2018 PGA Championship until he couldn’t keep up on the weekend. But his speed and power is still evident and he’s been through enough to handle what’s in front of him.

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NFL Tempers flare, fists fly during joint practices BY ROB MAADDI

cause I’m a little troublemaker sometimes, but I was good this week.” Fights are inevitable considering players are going at each other, talking trash, grinding in the hot sun on humid days. It takes plenty of discipline to show restraint. “I love joint practices, being able to play in our defense, in our style against another team,” Arizona Cardinals safety Budda Baker said. “Yeah, the cons are ﬁghting, but at the end of the day, we’re professionals. ... As long as you can play the game at a high level and respect the other team, ﬁghts won’t happen.”

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Joint practices are out of control when a guy like Jameis Winston, viewed as being easygoing on the field, is throwing punches and getting decked in the middle of a brawl. Tempers have been flaring around the NFL as many teams are practicing against each other ahead of preseason games. Winston was at the center of a fight between the New York Giants and Miami Dolphins on Thursday. The Dallas Cowboys and the New Orleans Saints were fined $500,000 apiece by the NFL after a brawl-filled joint practice Tuesday. There were several skirmishes between the San Francisco 49ers and Tennessee Titans last week that led to two players from each team being tossed out of practice. “It’s not a game, so you don’t have the same, quite, guardrails on it,” Giants coach John Harbaugh said. “And it’s a violent game. And so, in this sort of an environment, you have these rules of engagement that aren’t really rules of the game. And then somebody perceives somebody else goes over the line, or they do go over the line, and somebody needs to protect somebody, and that’s where it goes. And I think as long as it doesn’t get out of control where we get a violent type of situation, it’s fine. We decided that anybody that threw a punch in those scrimmages would be treated like the game.” The joint sessions have become the preferred way to give starters valuable repetitions in a competitive environment. Most coaches

SANKER

Continued from page 1C Burgess also played some star under Staley in 2020. Burgess’ advice is simple: “Just play free.” “He’s still a kid at heart,” Burgess said. “I remember where I was my second year in the league, still trying to figure things out. With the way he played last year, it’s giving him confidence to go in there and play just as well in the slot and make a lot of plays.” Starting safeties Justin Reid and Julian Blackmon have also, at various stages of their careers, dropped down from safety to fill in as the starting nickel. Calling back on his own experience, Reid said the biggest adjustment is not in coverage but in how fast things happen when you’re closer to the line of scrimmage. “The closer you get to the ball, you have to react more,” Reid said. “You have to see the puller and just go, and you’ve got to just trust it. Because if not, you’re going to get sealed, you’re going to get caught, right? And if you want to make a play, you got to have that quick trigger and just kind of go and let it happen.” Sanker needs to be instinctive and decisive. Burgess compared the position to the quarterback of the defense, not because the star is making the call but because the rest of the back end is keying off the way he’s reacting. That is where these training camp practices and joint practices have been invaluable, and it is why there has not been much cross-training at other positions to this point. Sanker is putting learned experience in the bank, figuring out the best way to align against certain looks — is it better to be 5 yards off the line or 6? And he’s getting a feel for how fast things happen. “Now he can start to solidify how he wants to play, how he’s going to feel best playing,” Staley said. “And so I think that you’re seeing that with him. He’s been able to absorb all this knowledge from different people and then get out here and play his game.” Sanker is a willing and aggressive tackler, and he should be an upgrade over last year’s star, Alontae Taylor, against the run game. He is also going to have different responsibilities in coverage than he did a year ago at safety, but Staley is not concerned about how he is going to handle that aspect of the job. When Staley looks at Sanker, he sees someone with the ideal build (6-foot-1, 211 pounds) and the right set of physical attributes. Staley noted that Sanker’s 10-yard split during the 40-yard dash — an easy way to gauge acceleration — was among the best in his class.

Respect is key

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Dallas Cowboys linebacker Demarvion Overshown, left, and outside linebacker Sam Williams, center, fight with New Orleans Saints tight end Moliki Matavao, below, during a joint practice on Tuesday in Oxnard, Calif. defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said. “The way I explain it to the players, every time we do one of these — you have 90 teammates in camp. Now you’ve got 180 teammates. We’re just working against each other. OK, they’re in a different jersey, a different helmet. Fights not OK at joint practices We’re not here to ﬁght. We’re here Coaches have warned their play- to get better as an individual and a ers about ﬁghting, making it clear team, and hopefully we’ll all treat it’s disruptive and counterproduc- it that way.” Philadelphia held two joint sestive. “We don’t tolerate it,” Eagles sions with the New England Paprefer to keep key starters or all their starters, in some cases, out of preseason games so facing opponents within a controlled setting has become a priority for most teams. Overall, 28 of 32 teams are holding joint practices this year.

Though Sanker has long speed, too, the short-area quickness is what matters most while covering receivers in the slot. “I never would have thought this was a good idea if I didn’t think he could cover,” Staley said. “I would never even consider it. I think that he’s an outstanding slot cover player because he has the physical characteristics and then the skill set to be a very good slot defender.” Judging by Staley’s history, it’s probably worth trusting his judgment. He’s typically put the best player in his secondary in this role, and they’ve all had success. When Staley started out with the Rams, that meant Pro Bowler Jalen Ramsey moving from the outside — where teams could avoid him if they wanted — right in the mix near the line of scrimmage. When Staley took the Los Angeles Chargers job, it was safety Derwin James who played the star. Both Ramsey and James earned All-Pro honors under Staley. Last season, Taylor matched his career highs in interceptions (two) and tackles for loss (seven) while adding 11 pass breakups, two sacks and 83 tackles. He turned that into a rich free agent deal with the Tennessee Titans. Staley did not invent the concept of the star — it has its roots in the Cleveland Browns defenses of the 1990s, coached by Bill Belichick and Nick Saban. A lot of his own inspiration came from watching Hall of Famer Charles Woodson during his time with the Green Bay Packers. “When Charles went to Green Bay, (then-Packers defensive coordinator) Dom Capers put him at nickel and he was the Defensive Player of the Year,” Staley said. “He gave you, as a play-caller, way more options and then put way more pressure on the offensive coaches because of what you could do. “He could play man-to-man, he could blitz, he could play zone. If you did play base defense, he could go play corner or safety and start because he was that good of a player.” That, Staley thought, was revolutionary. It informed the way he wanted to call defenses. Now he’s putting a young and relatively untested player in his unit’s most crucial spot. If Staley has faith in him, that’s as good of a sign as any that he can ﬁgure it out — maybe in an evolved way. “What I’ve told him from the jump when we decided to do this in the winter time was the way that you’re going to play this is going to be different than a lot of other people in the league are doing it,” Staley said. “Your body type’s different, your engine’s different. Your skill set’s different, and we’re going to really coach to that, design to that.”

triots this week. There was one minor scufﬂe, prompting Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley to say: “I hate joint practices, to be honest.” “More times than not nothing good comes out of it,” he said. “When you have the work, it’s good, but then you get the pushing, the shoving and someone says this about you and it’s ‘I don’t know about that but you’re this.’ It’s immature when you get to that level. I have to do a better job, too, be-

Baker said teams are supposed to maintain the same etiquette in joint practices as they do against each other. “If the ball is in the air and you see the receiver in a compromising position, and I’m coming downhill on the ball, I’m not going to hit him,” Baker said. “I’m going to let him catch it and tap off. I might talk my little (trash) and tell him, ‘You probably wouldn’t have caught that.’ But you’re being a professional. You wouldn’t want to hurt your own teammates so you don’t want to hurt the opposing team in a practice.” Fights occur when players breach that etiquette or hit a quarterback. “You should never get close to the QB,” Baker said. “Quarterbacks are the most important position in football. Losing a quarterback in practice against another team — that’s something where ﬁghts will deﬁnitely happen.”

Raiders’ veteran QBs help Mendoza BY MARK ANDERSON Associated Press

HENDERSON, Nev. — Much has been made of Kirk Cousins’ impact on Raiders rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza’s development. But there’s another veteran QB in Las Vegas who could have a role in helping Mendoza begin to live up to the expectations that come with being the NFL’s No. 1 overall draft pick. Aidan O’Connell enters his fourth season and provides guidance through words and actions. He led two lengthy fourth-quarter touchdown drives to rally the Raiders to a 22-20 preseason victory at Houston on Thursday. “I think we’ve said all offseason how much we value Aidan, and what a heck of a second half,” coach Klint Kubiak said Friday. “He goes out and leads us to (a) 19-point half and two 90-plus yard drives in the fourth quarter. He did it with his teammates, but he was a big part of it and was very happy for him.” Kubiak said he and the staff were considering keeping all three quarterbacks this season. “Those guys are going to make us make hard decisions, which is a great thing, that competition,” Kubiak said. “We’re talking through it.” Much of the discussion likely also centers around when Men-

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Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Fernando Mendoza is pressured by Houston Texans defensive tackle Kayden McDonald in a preseason game Thursday in Houston.

doza will get the chance to start this season. He played the entire ﬁrst half against the Texans with mixed results. Mendoza threw behind running back Mike Washington only to see an interception go the other way for an 80-yard touchdown. But he also completed six passes in a row during one stretch. By the time he was done, Mendoza had completed eight of 15 passes for 86 yards, his ﬁve drives totaling just three points. He was victimized by two dropped passes from rookie wide receiver Malik Benson, one that would have been a big gain on third down.

done enough to secure a spot, even if the Saints stick with RatContinued from page 1C tler at QB2. The Saints opted not to keep three quarterbacks on cutdown this week of joint practices, with day last year, preferring to have Smyth and Brown each getting roster flexibility elsewhere. But five reps Tuesday and none Thurs- as a franchise, New Orleans has shown it’s plenty comfortable day. “I’m really bringing my best keeping three quarterbacks. every day, stepping up and just focusing on making the next WRs look to step up kick and not worrying too much The Saints’ first snap of Thursabout anything else,” Brown said. day’s practice saw Bryce Lance, “That’s really it.” Kevin Austin and Barion Brown line up at wide receiver. Wilson’s surge New Orleans could end up needSaints coach Kellen Moore de- ing all three in 2026. Chris Olave, Jordyn Tyson clined to state whether Wilson or Spencer Rattler would start Satur- (when healthy) and Devaughn day’s contest. But there was a no- Vele are clearly the top receivtable shift in Thursday’s practice, ers, but injuries and rest days when Wilson was the first quarter- have pushed the other three into back up after Tyler Shough. The expanded roles. Like running back, the wide swap came days after Wilson outperformed Rattler against the Jag- receiver room faces a fascinating numbers crunch. If Tyson uars. Will Wilson become Shough’s (hamstring) opens the season on primary backup? That depends injured reserve, that may help on how the rest of the preseason Austin’s chances of making the goes. But the more interesting roster. But can any of the other question might be whether the wideouts — such as Bub Means former second overall pick has or Ronnie Bell — make enough of

Kubiak praised Mendoza’s work in the meeting room Wednesday night and said much of it translated to the game. “I was pleased with watching the tape,” Kubiak said. “I really like what he did on third down. We were only 1 of 5 on third down in the first half. However, we did drop the ball twice, and we threw one short of the sticks on thirdand-long. He had really good ball placement on the first third down of the game with a guy in his face. So, in the critical downs, I thought he was playing his best. “There are things that we must get corrected that will be addressed ASAP.” As Kubiak indicated, there were issues at wide receiver. Benson had appeared to calm some nerves about the position with his excellent play in training camp, but Kubiak clearly had a hard time overlooking those two drops. One of the main questions this preseason is what the Raiders will do without a true No. 1 receiver. Tight end Brock Bowers, who has had a tremendous camp, will likely get most of the targets. “I learned a lot in that we have to get a lot better very fast, that we took a step backward,” Kubiak said of the receivers. “Doesn’t mean we can’t go forward. But right now, we are trying to find someone that is accountable and can help us on Sunday. Still looking.”

an impression in the last two preseason games to cause a change on the depth chart?

Rookie DBs T.J. Hall picked off Rams quarterback Ty Simpson in Thursday’s practice, which quietly provided a reminder that the Saints drafted two young cornerbacks in April. Have they been lost in the shuffle? Much has been made about Jayden Price’s potential path to locking down a roster spot. Martin Emerson, who signed in free agency, looks like a great fit in Brandon Staley’s defense. KoolAid McKinstry has taken a leadership role in the secondary. But fifth-rounder Lorenzo Styles — who has played inside cornerback and special teams on the second and third units — and Hall haven’t been talked about nearly as much. Is that because they’re flying under the radar? Or because they haven’t done enough to be noticed? The last two games should answer that. Email Matthew Paras at matt.paras@theadvocate.com

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SCOREBOARD Odds

Saturday’s Games

Sports Betting Line NFL Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN at DETROIT 1½ at MIN 2½ at CLE 1½ at IND 2½ NY Giants 1½ New Orleans 1½ Chicago 3 Philadelphia 1½ at TAMPA BAY 3 at ARIZONA 1½

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 1½ (36½) Wash 3½ (36½) Baltimore 3 (36½) Buffalo 3½ (36½) Atlanta 3½ (36½) at MIAMI 2½ (37½) at RAMS 1½ (36½) at CIN 1½ (36½) at NE 5½ (37½) Knsas City 1½ (37½) Dallas

FAVORITE OPEN at TENNESSEE 3

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 4½ (37½) Seattle

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N.Y. Jets 17, Pittsburgh 0 Carolina at Jacksonville, n Green Bay at Denver, n

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B. Rechstnr 89 V. Broughton 91 D. Godchaux 92 N. Shepherd 93 C. Jordan 94 J. Ridgeway 95 C. Grandrsn 96 K. Boyd 97 T. Wilson 98 C. Young 99

Washington at Detroit, 11 a.m. Atlanta at Indianapolis, noon Baltimore at Minnesota, noon Buffalo at Cleveland, noon N.Y. Giants at Miami, 3 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Rams, 3 p.m. Chicago at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at New England, 6 p.m. Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m. Dallas at Arizona, 9 p.m. Seattle at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

Ht. 6-2 5-11 6-0 5-10 6-2 6-0 6-5 6-1 6-1 6-0 6-0 6-3 6-5 6-2 6-3 6-3 5-11 6-3 6-1 6-2 6-0 5-11 6-2 5-11 6-1 6-3 5-11 5-11 6-0 5-11 6-0 6-0 6-0 6-1 5-11 6-4 6-4 5-10 6-2 6-1 6-1 6-1 6-0 6-2 6-3 6-4 6-3 6-2 6-2 6-2 6-4 6-6 6-2 6-1 6-4 6-3 6-3 6-5 6-4 6-4 6-5 6-7 6-3 6-5 6-4 6-6 6-7 6-6 6-6 6-4 6-7 6-6 6-2 6-4 6-4 6-5 6-0 6-5 6-4 6-4

225 311 330 315 287 321 261 320 263 265

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Player M. Tipton

No. Pos. 15 WR

Ht. 5-11

Wt. 187

Age 25

Player B. Bresee D. Radunz

No. Pos. 90 DL 77 OL

Ht. 6-5 6-6

Wt. 305 301

Age 24 28

Player N. Saldiveri

No. Pos. 64 OL

Ht. 6-6

Wt. 316

Age 26

Reserve/Injured

Saints preseason roster Pos. WR CB QB RB QB RB QB S WR WR WR QB WR WR P WR WR/RS LB S CB S RB CB S CB LB CB RB DB RB CB S S CB CB K EDGE RB CB RB LB LB K LB LS C/G DL LB EDGE LB EDGE DL LB EDGE DL DL EDGE G G DL G T T T OL T T/G T G C/G T TE WR TE TE TE WR TE TE TE

6-2 6-5 6-3 6-4 6-4 6-5 6-5 6-2 6-5 6-5

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Sunday’s Games Player No. J. Tyson 0 K. McKinstry 1 S. Rattler 2 T. Etienne 3 Z. Wilson 4 K. Miller 5 T. Shough 6 J. Sanker 7 T. Palmer 10 R. Bell 11 C. Olave 12 H. Dekkers 13 D. Vele 14 B. Means 16 R. Wright 17 B. Lance 18 B. Brown 19 P. Werner 20 J. Reid 21 M. Emerson 22 J. Blackmon 23 D. Neal 24 R. Wright 25 T. Burgess 26 I. Yiadom 27 D. Stutsman 28 Q. Riley 29 A. Estimé 30 J. Howden 31 T. Chandler 32 TJ Hall 34 E. Davison 35 L. Styles 36 D. Beanum 37 J. Price 38 C. Smyth 39 F. Diggs 40 A. Kamara 41 M. Reid 42 CJ Donaldson 43 I. Stalbird 44 D. Jones 45 T. Brown 46 J. Sirmon 47 Z. Wood 49 C. Ruiz 51 C. Miller 52 J. Ford 53 A. Jennings 54 K. Elliss 55 M. Williams 56 M. Cole 57 C. Rumph 58 G. Nelson 59 B. Taylor 60 J. Suggs 62 M. Heldman 63 J. Wright 65 W. Sherman 66 K. Saunders 67 T. Simpkins 68 B. Wesley 69 A. Herron 70 K. Banks 71 A. Richards 72 E. Kilty 73 X. Truss 74 T. Fuaga 75 D. Edwards 76 E. McCoy 78 A. Wllschlgr 79 M. Matavao 80 K. Austin 81 T. Welch 82 J. Johnson 83 Z. Mtchll-Pdn 84 J. Mrn-Crppr 85 C. Hardy 86 N. Fant 87 O. Delp 88

WR DL DL DL EDGE DL EDGE DL EDGE EDGE

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Age 22 23 25 27 27 24 26 23 25 26 26 25 28 25 26 24 22 27 29 25 27 23 25 27 30 23 25 22 26 28 22 24 23 23 26 25 24 31 24 22 26 31 26 26 33 27 22 24 29 31 N/A 26 27 26 N/A 25 23 24 27 23 24 27 23 22 25 24 25 24 29 28 24 23 26 25 29 27 25 22 28 23

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Major League Baseball

Tampa Bay New York Boston Toronto Baltimore

W 76 72 68 63 61

L 51 55 59 66 67

Pct .598 .567 .535 .488 .477

GB — 4 8 14 15½

Chicago Minnesota Cleveland Detroit Kansas City

W 66 63 62 61 55

L 61 65 66 66 74

Pct .520 .492 .484 .480 .426

GB — 3½ 4½ 5 12

Houston Texas Seattle Los Angeles Athletics

W 64 63 60 51 49

L 64 65 68 77 79

Pct .500 .492 .469 .398 .383

GB — 1 4 13 15

Central Division

West Division

Thursday’s Games

Cleveland 5, San Francisco 2 Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 1 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Kansas City 6, Athletics 2 Milwaukee 7, Seattle 4 N.Y. Yankees 6, Baltimore 1 Texas 2, Washington 0 L.A. Angels 18, Houston 3

Friday’s Games

11 14½ 17

Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati

W 79 74 66 63 61

L 49 54 63 66 67

Pct .617 .578 .512 .488 .477

GB — 5 13½ 16½ 18

Pct .602 .531 .523 .409 .394

GB — 9 10 24½ 26½

Central Division

West Division Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

W 77 68 67 52 50

Thursday’s Games

L 51 60 61 75 77

St. Louis 10, Cincinnati 9 Cleveland 5, San Francisco 2 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Milwaukee 7, Seattle 4 Texas 2, Washington 0

National League L 53 58

Pct .586 .547

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Alex Smalley Jacob Bridgeman Sam Burns Alex Fitzpatrick Tommy Fleetwood Si Woo Kim Jake Knapp Aaron Rai Rickie Fowler Ryan Fox Kurt Kitayama Hideki Matsuyama Alex Noren J.T. Poston Ben Grifﬁn Tom Kim Min Woo Lee Sepp Straka Bud Cauley Nicolas Echavarria Sahith Theegala Nicolai Højgaard

69-68—137 66-72—138 71-67—138 66-72—138 69-69—138 70-69—139 67-72—139 68-71—139 71-69—140 71-69—140 72-68—140 72-68—140 71-69—140 70-70—140 68-73—141 72-69—141 69-72—141 73-68—141 73-69—142 69-74—143 71-72—143 73-71—144

Western & Southern Open Results

Atlanta (Elder 8-7) at Milwaukee (Henderson 7-2), 1:10 p.m. Washington (Irvin 2-7) at Miami (Pérez 6-9), 3:10 p.m. St. Louis (Pallante 12-6) at Philadelphia (Painter 2-8), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Scott 4-3) at Chicago White Sox (Castillo 4-9), 6:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Peterson 7-7) at Seattle (Anderson 0-0), 6:15 p.m. Pittsburgh (Jones 2-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Skubal 7-7), 6:15 p.m. San Francisco (Tidwell 0-0) at Boston (Sandoval 1-2), 6:15 p.m. Cincinnati (Lowder 4-8) at Arizona (Soroka 8-3), 7:10 p.m. Cleveland (Bibee 4-13) at Colorado (Hughes 0-4), 7:10 p.m. Minnesota (Kremer 2-4) at San Diego (Mize 5-7), 7:40 p.m.

Men’s Singles

Friday

Saturday’s Games

At Bellerive Country Club Saint Louis, Mo. Purse: $20 million Yardage: 7,448; Par: 70 Second Round Wyndham Clark 64-64—128 Gary Woodland 64-65—129 J.J. Spaun 64-66—130 Chris Gotterup 64-67—131 Sungjae Im 67-64—131 Patrick Cantlay 67-65—132 Michael Thorbjornsen 66-66—132 Russell Henley 67-66—133 Rory McIlroy 64-69—133 Maverick McNealy 67-66—133 Collin Morikawa 68-65—133 Michael Brennan 69-65—134 Viktor Hovland 71-63—134 Kristoffer Reitan 67-67—134 Justin Thomas 67-67—134 Akshay Bhatia 67-68—135 Eric Cole 67-68—135 Ryo Hisatsune 65-70—135 Ryan Gerard 70-66—136 Justin Rose 69-67—136 70-66—136 Xander Schauffele Adam Scott 68-68—136 Cameron Young 71-65—136 Ludvig Åberg 66-70—136 Matt Fitzpatrick 65-72—137 Robert MacIntyre 68-69—137 Matthew McCarty 70-67—137 Scottie Schefﬂer 72-65—137

-3 -2 -2 -2 -2 -1 -1 -1 E E E E E E +1 +1 +1 +1 +2 +3 +3 +4

Tennis

Milwaukee 2, Atlanta 1 Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 6 San Francisco at Boston, n Washington at Miami, n N.Y. Mets at Chicago White Sox, n Cleveland at Colorado, n Cincinnati at Arizona, n Minnesota at San Diego, n Chicago Cubs at Seattle, n Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, n

At Lindner Family Tennis Center Cincinnati Purse: $9,415,725 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Results Friday from Western & Southern Open at Lindner Family Tennis Center (seedings in parentheses): Quarterﬁnals Brandon Nakashima (27), United States, def. Taylor Fritz (6), United States, 7-6 (9), 4-6, 6-3.

Women’s Singles

Quarterﬁnals Sara Bejlek, Czechia, def. Madison Keys (20), United States, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Men’s Doubles

Quarterﬁnals Marcel Granollers, Spain, and Horacio Zeballos (2), Argentina, def. Tomas Martin Etcheverry, Argentina, and Luciano Darderi, Italy, 6-3, 7-6 (8). Robin Haase, Netherlands, and Constantin Frantzen, Germany, def. Albano Olivetti and Theo Arribage, France, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3). Rafael Matos and Orlando Luz, Brazil, def. Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori (4), Italy, 7-6 (7), 6-3. Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, and Hugo Nys, Monaco, def. Fabien Reboul and Sadio Doumbia, France, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 11-9.

Women’s Doubles

Friday

Toronto (Cease 7-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Weathers 5-7), 12:35 p.m. L.A. Angels (Johnson 2-7) at Texas (Bradford 0-1), 6:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (McClanahan 9-6) at Baltimore (Young 9-3), 6:05 p.m. Athletics (Lopez 5-4) at Houston (Brown 3-3), 6:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Scott 4-3) at Chicago White Sox (Castillo 4-9), 6:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Peterson 7-7) at Seattle (Anderson 0-0), 6:15 p.m. Detroit (Anderson 4-4) at Kansas City (Wacha 6-8), 6:15 p.m. San Francisco (Tidwell 0-0) at Boston (Sandoval 1-2), 6:15 p.m. Cleveland (Bibee 4-13) at Colorado (Hughes 0-4), 7:10 p.m. Minnesota (Kremer 2-4) at San Diego (Mize 5-7), 7:40 p.m.

W 75 70

.500 .473 .453

BMW Championship

Saturday’s Games

Atlanta Philadelphia

64 68 70

Golf

N.Y. Yankees 3, Toronto 1 Boston 6, San Francisco 4 Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 3 N.Y. Mets at Chicago White Sox, n Athletics at Houston, n Detroit at Kansas City, n L.A. Angels at Texas, n Cleveland at Colorado, n Minnesota at San Diego, n Chicago Cubs at Seattle, n

East Division

64 61 58

Friday’s Games

American League East Division

Miami Washington New York

-12 -11 -10 -9 -9 -8 -8 -7 -7 -7 -7 -6 -6 -6 -6 -5 -5 -5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -3 -3 -3 -3

Semiﬁnals Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Magali Kempen, Belgium, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Jelena Ostapenko (5), Latvia, 6-3, 7-5. Marie Bouzkova and Linda Noskova, Czechia, def. Caty McNally and Iva Jovic, United States, 6-3, 6-2.

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League ATHLETICS — Transferred 1B Nick Kurtz to the 60-day IL. Placed SS Jacob Wilson on the 10-day IL. Selected the contract of 2B Michael Stefanic from Las Vegas (PCL). Recalled RHP Kade Morris from Las Vegas. Optioned RHP Taylor Rashi to Las Vegas. Claimed OF Johnathan Rodríguez off waivers from Pittsburgh. BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Designated RHP Albert Suárez for assignment. Recalled RHP Anthony Nunez from Norfolk (IL). HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned LHP Bryan King to Sugar Land (PCL). Recalled RHP KaiWei Teng from Sugar Land. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed 3B Maikel Garcia on the 10-day IL. Sent RHP Beck Way on a rehab assignment to Omaha (IL). Recalled RHP Jose Cuas and OF Matthew Lugo from Omaha. Optioned RHP Carlos Duran to Omaha. NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed 3B Ryan McMahon on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Aug. 20. Recalled OF Max Schuemann from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

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zodIAC LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) You know how to play the game, so don't sit on the sidelines. Look for every opportunity to display your skills and to reach your goal. A positive change will come from the connections you make. VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) You may crave change, but don't jump too quickly. Ask questions, be resourceful and set up a time frame and budget that ensure you are doing what's best for you. LIBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23) Take the back roads, be observant and when in doubt, stick close to home. How you deal with others will make a difference in what you get in return. Be specific, realistic and ready to honor your promises. scoRPIo (oct. 24-nov. 22) Your options show promise and despair. Take the time to sort through the pros and cons and to eliminate anything that may pose a problem for you. Speak on your behalf. sAGIttARIus (nov. 23-Dec. 21) Close in on what you want. You have plenty to gain if you trust and believe in yourself and you recognize how you can use your skills and experience to get ahead. cAPRIcoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) If you express your honest opinion, you'll spare yourself turmoil. Addressing issues instead of letting them fester and grow will help you remove yourself from unsavory situations. AQuARIus (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Step up, make things happen and celebrate your success. It may seem impossible, but once

you take the first step, you'll discover how to sprint toward happiness. PIscEs (Feb. 20-March 20) Redefine what you want and what you've already got. It's time to shake up your routine, rethink your future and consider what truly makes you happy. Engage in pastimes that encourage you to be physical. ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Be specific. Leave nothing to chance or up to someone you aren't sure you can trust. Be resourceful, research and source information carefully. Refuse to let anger surface. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) Learn from past mistakes. Don't indulge or get involved in joint ventures. Be true to yourself, stick to your budget and choose pastimes that help you get ahead and put you on a path to self-improvement. GEMInI (May 21-June 20) A change will turn into a learning experience. Get into the nitty-gritty of whatever is being offered, and expand your plans to meet your demands. Life is about growth. cAncER (June 21-July 22) A steady pace is your best bet. Taking on too much will lead to frustration and regret. Don't limit what you can do; instead, focus on what's most important to you. Face facts when it comes to your current situation. The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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Sudoku InstructIons: sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the sudoku increases from monday to sunday. Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

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Bridge By PHILLIP ALDER Alfred Hitchcock said, “I am a typed director. If I made ‘Cinderella,’ the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.” Which one of the ugly stepsisters would it be? It couldn’t be Cinderella; you cannot kill off the heroine. In most bridge deals, declarer must start on his campaign immediately. If he waffles early, his contract will die. How should South play in this four-heart contract after West leads the diamond queen? Many Norths would have jumped straight to four hearts. “Partner, we had 10 trumps, so I had to bid to the 10-trick level as advocated by the Law of Total tricks.” I am not fond of that bid, especially in an uncontested auction, with a balanced hand containing so many losers. South has four losers: two spades, one heart and one club. But he has 10 winners: one spade, five hearts, two diamonds and two clubs. So it will be tempting to take the first trick and play a trump. However, East will win and shift to the club queen. Then the defenders can defeat the contract. Declarer must establish his spade trick immediately, so that he can dispose of his club loser. At trick two, South leads his spade queen. East wins with his king and switches to the club queen. Declarer carefully wins with his ace and plays the

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today’s thought “And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord.” Joshua 9:14

Be sure to check in with the Lord before you make that decision. — G.E. Dean

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Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

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PUBLIC NOTICE --The Louisiana Office of State Parks is requesting proposals for a PublicPrivate Partnership pro‐ ject to design, construct, and operate a high-qual‐ ity recreational vehicle campground and related amenities. For more in‐ formation go to opportu‐ nitiesinlouisiana.com. 192988-jul 2-aug 31-t PUBLIC NOTICE --The Lowlander Center (https://www.lowland ercenter.org/) is an‐ nouncing a Request for (RFP) due Proposals Monday, August 31, to deconstruct spoil banks for a Canal Spoil Re‐ placement (Backfilling) Please email Project. admin@lowlandercenter. org with any questions by Tuesday, August 11. All questions and an‐ swers will be posted on the Lowlander Center canal backfilling project page (https://www.low landercenter.org/canalbackfilling) by Tuesday, August 18. Please see the project page for RFP, per‐ mits, plat maps, back‐ information ground about the project, and an slideinformational deck. This project is partially funded by the National and Atmos‐ Oceanic Administration pheric (NOAA), through a grant agreement with the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation, grant award number: NA23NOS4730219. The views and conclusions contained in this docu‐ ment are those of the au‐ thors and should not be interpreted as represent‐ ing the opinions or poli‐ cies of the U.S. Govern‐ ment or the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and its funding sources. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Government, or the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation or its funding sources. 196005-aug 1-31-31t $$4,838.79

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y Process has been ﬁled against defendant, Yahsa Clark. Any party of inter‐ est is hereby notiﬁed to appear and assert any rights they may have.

y Issued under my hand and the seal of the Court, this ______ day of Au‐ gust 2026.

y p y py the 2026-2027 budget is available at 10001 Lake Forest Blvd., Suite 710, New Orleans, LA 70127.

TIM GRAY, CHANCERY CLERK SIMPSON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI By___________________ D.C.

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198322-AUG 22-1T $71.36 PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL COURT ORLEANS PARISH. Div “A” 24-6757 Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC vs. Mark Birden and Erica Birden AKA Erica Darby Birden NOTICE is hereby given that a Notice of Seizure has been filed against defendant, Erica Birden. Any party of interest is hereby notified to appear and assert any rights they may have. 198324-AUG 22-1T $73.92 PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL COURT ORLEANS PARISH. Div “A” 25-05325 Diana Nguyen vs Jason R. Williams,District Attor‐ ney. NOTICE is hereby given that an action entitled Petition To Change Minor Child's Name has been filed against Defendant. Any party of interest is hereby notified to appear and assert any rights they may have. 198285-aug 22-1t $73.92 PUBLIC NOTICE --In accordance with LA RS 47:6007, the production Marquee company Brands LA Productions LLC activities on the se‐ ries Emeril Cooks & Tail‐ gates has wrapped pro‐ in Orleans duction Parish, Louisiana as of 12/31/2025. All/Any out‐ standing creditor claims should be mailed to the 717 Camp address: Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 or to Sergio Lopez by 09/15/2026 197642-aug 15-22-29-3t $187.09 PUBLIC NOTICE --IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF SIMPSON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI IN THE MATTER OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE ESTATE OF CLARA BLACK KEVIN RILEY, PETITIONER CAUSE NO. 2025 – 212 P-1

PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL COURT ORLEANS PARISH. Div “A” 202500391 Nationstar Mort‐ gage LLC vs Tex Michael Armentor and Barbara Sue Armentor. Noticeis hereby given that an ac‐ tion entitled Petition for Foreclosure & Executory Process has been filed against defendants, ex Michael Armentor and Barbara Sue Armentor. Any parties of interest are hereby notified to ap‐ pear and assert any rights they may have. 198334-AUG 22-1T $81.58 PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL COURT ORLEANS PARISH. Div “A” 20256897. MMG REO VI 2, LLC vs. The Clark Firm NOTICE is hereby given that an action entitled Petition for Executory h b fil d

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF LOUISIANA TO: IAN BLACK You have been made a Defendant in the suit filed in this Court by Kevin Riley, seeking to open the Estate of Clara Black. You are summoned to and defend appear against the Petition filed against you in this action at 9:30 o’clock a.m. on the 23rd day of Septem‐ ber 2026, in the court‐ room of the Lawrence County Chancery Court‐ house in Monticello, Mis‐ sissippi, before the Hon‐ orable David Shoemake. In case of your failure to appear and defend a judgment may be en‐ tered against you for the money or other things demanded in the Peti‐ tion. You are not required to file an answer or other pleading but you may do so if you desire. d d h d

Requested by: S. Malcolm O. Harrison, (MSB#9965) ATTORNEY AT LAW Post Office Box 483 Jackson, Mississippi 39205-0483 (601) 948-5030 malcolm.harrison@mal colmharrisonlawoffice. com 198170-aug 22-29-sep 5-3t $631.12 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to be posted: Community Leaders Ad‐ vocating Student Suc‐ cess Inc./ Fannie C. Williams Charter School Budget Meeting will be held on Thursday August 27, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the school Library, Ad‐ dress: 11755 Dwyer Road New Orleans, LA 70128. Also, you can attend via the zoom link below. The 2026-27 Budget will be approved at the meeting. The Budget is available for viewing in the Busi‐ ness Office Monday- Fri‐ day 9a.m. to 3p.m. or you can contact the office at 504-373-6228 Ext 7. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/86725218911? pwd=AczazANrSMzvT26 Eo3m1MecDbfG6Ct.1

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I, BINH VAN TO, have been convicted of 11990003 - 22.021 PC Agg Sexual Assault Sexual Motivation. TEXAS Date Convicted: 12/01/1989. My Address is: 5052 LYONS CT MARRERO, LA 70072 Race: ASIAN OR PAC. ISL. Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 4/16/1974 Height: 5'3" Weight: 140 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

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I, JOSHUA MICHAEL MACHADO AKA JOSHUA M MACADO AKA JOSHUA MACHADO AKA JOSHUA M MACHADO AKA JOSH AKA NEPHEW, have been convicted of 14:42.1 Forcible Rape. Date Convicted: 03/06/2012. 14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 11/17/1992. My Address is: 1710 BRIDGE CITY AVE WESTWEGO, LA 70094 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 12/21/1974 Height: 5'9" Weight: 210 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA 198117, AUGH 21-22 $250

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NOTICE OF FILING OF FINAL ACCOUNT OF CO-ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE IS GIVEN to the creditors of these suc‐ cessions and to all other interested persons, that a Final Account has been ﬁled by LORRAINE LOGAN and CLAUDELL LOGAN, the Co-Administrators of SUCCESSIONS OF the LELA MAE JOHNSON, WIFE OF/AND GEORGE JACKSON LOGAN, with the Petition praying for of the homologation Final Account and for distribution of estate funds as listed thereon; and that the Final Ac‐ count can be homolo‐ gated after the expira‐ tion of ten (10) days from the date of the publica‐ tion of this notice. Any opposition to the Petition and Final Account must be ﬁled prior to homolo‐ gation. CHELSEY RICHARD NAPOLEON CLERK OF COURT CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS Please publish one (1) time in the following publications: Attorney: Carol A. Newman Publication: The Advocate/ The Times Picayune and The Louisiana Weekly Address: 627 Cherokee Street, Suite 102

PUBLIC NOTICE --The Institute for Acade‐ mic Excellence (dba So‐ phie B. Wright Charter School) will hold a hear‐ ing on its FY 2027 pro‐ posed budget on Sep‐ tember 1, 2026 at the school building in the media center. The hear‐ ing may last one hour. Starting September 2, 2026 through September 8, 2026 the proposed bud‐ get will be available for public inspection on the website at www.sophieb wrightschool.com or at Sophie B. Wright front of‐ ﬁce, 1426 Napoleon Ave, New Orleans, LA 70115.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation will introduce the 2026-27 budget and hold its ﬁrst public hearing on the 2026-27 budget on May 14, 2026 at 5:30 pm at Edgar P Harney Build‐ ing located at 2503 Wil‐ low St., New Orleans, LA 70113 (LA R.S. 39:1307). ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation is the charter school management or‐ ganization operating ReNEW Laurel Elemen‐ tary, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary, ReNEW Schaumburg Ele‐ mentary, and ReNEW Moton Lakefront Elemen‐ tary. A physical copy of h b d i

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198297-aug 22-1t $49.65 PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2024-11167 DIVISION “E” SECTION 7 SUCCESSION OF EUGENE JENKINS LEE FILED: __ __________ ____________ __ DEPUTY CLERK NOTICE OF PETITION FOR AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO GIVING IN PAYMENT

NOTICE IS GIVEN, that JOAN B. DELATTE and ANTHONY EARLESS BABIN, Co-Administrators of the Succession of Eu‐ gene Jenkins Lee have pursuant to the provi‐ sions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Articles 3198 and 3229, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to enter into a “giving in payment” contract to transfer ownership of im‐ movable property lo‐ cated at 211 Cambridge New Orleans, Court, Louisiana in exchange for a release on the mort‐ gage owed. The Order granting such authority may be is‐ sued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of publication of this Notice. Any Opposi‐ tion to the Petition for

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City of Gretna Police Department Unclaimed Property Brett Lawson, in his capacity as Chief of Police of the City of Gretna, Louisiana hereby notifies his intent to retain or destroy unclaimed property in accordance with Louisiana R. S. 15:41 and/or CCRP 228.4 unless otherwise claimed by the owner within 30 days of publication of this notice. Property may be claimed by contacting the City of Gretna Police Department’s Property and Evidence Division, located at 200 5th Street, Gretna, LA 70053, or by calling (504) 227-7602. All claimants must provide proof of ownership before any property may be released. Item No.

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White purse cont.; wristwatch, air pods, and black wallet cont. Misc. items (Owner: Gleneshia Wortham)

C-60521-25

Black and blue Huffy bran trail runner bike.

H-62660-25

Black e-batch bike S/N: SNHTB21G03976 (Owner: Branden Bernard)

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Black Taurus G2C 9MM Piston with magazine (Owner: Desmond Adams)

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Sovereign Red Bike S/N: 714474720 590607582 (Owner: Jeneve Pellegal)

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Tan Glock 19X9 MM Caliber pistol with two mags (Owner: Jaren Byrd)

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Silver Trek Mountain Bike S/N WTU138201N (Owner: Darryl Bartholemew)

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GREEN THUMB: Heat, humidity and no rain in landscapes Page 4 INSIDE SOURCES: Refinish instead of renovate Page 10

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Heat and no rain affecting the landscape. PAGE 4

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Cutting back Louisiana irises. PAGE 5 ONE IN A MILLION

Elegant Old Metairie home for $2.75 million. PAGE 8 INSIDE SOURCES

Local interior designers share fall decor trends. PAGE 12

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Recent transactions in the metro area. PAGE 16

Weighing when to renovate or reﬁnish. PAGE 10

The InsideOut home and garden section is published every Saturday by The Times-Picayune. Questions about InsideOut should be directed to the editor.

InsideOut’s mission is to give readers peeks inside the many different ways that people in the New Orleans area live. We proﬁle spaces that are opulent, or just offbeat; sophisticated or simple; functional or light-hearted; historic or brand-spanking new. And anything in between. Please help us by sending information and JPEG photos of your home, or speciﬁc spaces inside it, to insideout@theadvocate.com. We love gardens and outdoor spaces, too. And we’re waiting to hear from you.

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TOO DARN HOT Soaring temperatures, humidity and a lack of rain can affect landscapes

We are all aware that we must endure high temperatures combined with high humidity every year from June to September. We try not to whine too much, but I do catch myself mumbling under my breath on occasion Dan about how horribly unGill comfortable it is. GREEN I have reassured THUMB many gardeners who expressed concerns about how their plants would be affected by the heat. We are no strangers to temperatures in the mid- to upper 90s. The heat we have

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During dry weather when it becomes necessary to irrigate, it is important to water thoroughly and deeply and then allow the soil to dry somewhat between irrigations. STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

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Feel free to cut back Louisiana irises now BY DAN GILL

Contributing writer

When is the best time to cut the leaves off of Louisiana iris plants? They bloomed beautifully this Garden year and are starting to turn yellow, advice fall over and look terrible. — Kathy Feel free to cut your Louisiana irises back at your convenience any time over the next few weeks. The foliage of Louisiana irises looks terrible this time of year, and it won’t hurt the plants to cut it off. Louisiana irises look unattractive now because they are dormant in July, August and September, but they will begin to grow again in October. Keep the beds well mulched to protect the rhizomes and keep the soil cooler.

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Louisiana irises are dormant in July, August and September, but they will begin to grow again in October. I have had a compost pile for several years. This year, when I used the compost in a bed, hundreds of weed seeds came up. I thought the heat of the compost pile would kill the weed seeds. How can I prevent this in the

future? Thanks. — Pauline If you put weeds with seeds in your compost, you cannot rely on composting

GARDEN TIPS SPRAY AWAY: Spider mites and white flies are abundant now, and many gardeners are experiencing heavy outbreaks. Make several applications of year-Round Spray Oil or All Seasons Spray Oil before they get out of hand. Be sure to spray the underside of the leaves for best control, and spray in the early morning when it is cooler. APHIDS ARE ALRIGHT: Small, yellow aphids on your butterfly weed or milkweed will not damage the plants or affect the feeding of adult and larval STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER monarch butterflies. Do not A monarch butterfly feeds on use insecticides. milkweed. GET A HEAD START: Begin to order spring-flowering bulbs from catalogs for fall planting. We plant most bulbs in November. Refrigerate tulip and hyacinth bulbs for eight weeks, and plant in late December or early January. ONE TRUE PEAR: Harvest pears by late August. The best quality is produced when the fruit are ripened off the tree. Pick firm pears that have begun to show yellow or blush red. Wrap them individually in newspaper and place them in paper bags or cardboard boxes. They will soften in about 10 days. This is not necessary if you intend to cook and freeze or can the pears.

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Continued from page 4 experienced this week follows a long stretch of daytime highs. As a result, it’s not unreasonable to be concerned about the effects of heat stress on our landscapes. Dry weather has also contributed to the stressful situation. The dome of high pressure over us that is causing all the heat is also preventing widespread rainfall (and the cooling cloud cover that comes with it). Although some areas may have received rain from scattered storms, rainfall has not been uniform over southeast Louisiana. Landscape plants that have been doing just ﬁne are now getting thirsty. Between heat and dry weather, many plants are under stress. Trees and shrubs planted in the spring are particularly vulnerable since they do not have wellestablished root systems. Vegetable gardens and ﬂowerbeds also need supplemental irrigation.

Results of the heat Plants under heat stress are weakened, and we typically see an increase in disease and insect problems in mid- to late summer. Keep your eye out for insect pests such as mealybugs, aphids, scales and whiteﬂies. Spider mites can also be very damaging to a wide variety of plants, and they thrive in hot, dry weather. Chinch bugs are currently damaging area lawns. A good low-toxicity spray for these pests is a light horticultural oil such as Year-Round Spray Oil or All Seasons Oil. We can use these through the summer, but it is best to spray in the early morning when temperatures are cooler. Chinch bugs may be controlled with pyrethroids like bifenthrin or permethrin (make two sprays). High temperatures can cause problems for plants. Growth rates may slow down. This is not a soil nutrient deﬁciency,

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Roses experiencing heat stress typically grow less vigorously and may produce fewer flowers. The flowers that are produced are typically smaller, the color is somewhat faded and they do not last long once they open.

CUTTING BACK Many summer bedding plants that were planted months ago will continue to bloom through the fall but may be leggy and overgrown now. Cut them back by about one-third to one-half to produce stockier, fuller plants. This is often done to bedding plants such as impatiens, begonia, lantana, blue daze, verbena, pentas, salvia, periwinkle and others. and fertilizing plants will not help them deal with heat stress. Roses are an example of this. This time of year, roses typically grow less vigorously. The shoots growing now are generally not as large and strong as they were in the spring and early summer. In addition, roses may produce fewer ﬂowers. The ﬂowers that are produced are typically smaller, the color is somewhat faded and they do not last long once they open. This is all related to the heat. Petunias and geraniums also may languish as days in the 90s

dominate the weather. Although agapanthus do well here and are popular, they do not like it when temperatures stay in the 90s. This makes them prone to dieback on the leaves — the tips of the leaves turn yellow, then brown. It doesn’t look good, but they will recover. Other plants and even shrubs and trees (such as Japanese maples) may show scorched leaf edges. During intense heat, plants may have difficulty providing adequate water to their leaves, even when sufficient moisture is available in the soil. Vegetables, like cucumbers and squash, may wilt in the afternoon heat, even if you just watered them that morning. The plants simply cannot replace the water as fast as it is being lost. The next morning, the plants typically look fine, having recovered during the cooler night. Proper watering is an important issue during extreme heat. Pay particular attention to trees planted in the past year. Water them by laying a hose nozzle within a couple of inches of the trunk and let it trickle for about 30 minutes. Do this a couple of times a week. Since the weather has been

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Significant cutting back of sago palms could ruin their shape and open the trunk to decay that could kill them.

Continued from page 5 to effectively kill all the weed seeds. To prevent this in the future, be very careful about adding weeds to the compost pile. Never add weeds that are setting seeds and do not put the bulbs, rhizomes or tubers of weeds in the compost pile. I have two sago palms at the front of my house as the centerpiece of a decorative garden. They have grown to be over 6 feet, and that is too tall. Is there any way to prune them to a reduced height of about 3 feet? — Jessie What you are wanting to do will not really work with sago palms (Cycas revoluta), and I’d advise against it. Cutting the trunks back to 3 feet will greatly damage the plants. Doing it will ruin their shape and open the trunk to decay that could kill them. You could move them to a location where their wonderful height is more appropriate and replace them with smaller plants. Some little critter is sucking the chlorophyll from my azalea leaves. I don’t see anything, but the leaves are very pale. — Cheryl It sounds like this damage is caused by the azalea lace bug. They feed from the underside of the leaves, causing numerous light spots on the upper surface. Leaves can look faded in a heavy infestation. You will

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Continued from page 6 dry, you would think root rot would not be an issue. But during dry weather when it becomes necessary to irrigate, many people do so excessively. It is important to water thoroughly and deeply and then allow the soil to dry somewhat between irrigations. Making sure the soil does not stay too moist is critical. When plants are stressed by high temperatures, their resistance is down and water molds that

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also see small, dark brown fecal deposits on the back of the leaves. Sometimes we don’t notice the damage until the lace bugs have come and gone. In that case, treatment is not useful. Lace bug activity is generally high in spring, low in midsummer and high in the late summer/fall. If the damage has been getting worse recently, that indicates an active infestation. A variety of contact insecticides will control azalea lace bugs, including malathion, permethrin (Bonide Eight and other brands) and light horticultural oils (Year-Round Spray Oil, All Seasons Oil and other brands; oils are the least toxic option). Be sure to spray thoroughly under the leaves and make two

or three applications following label directions. The damage already done to the leaves is permanent, so don’t expect them to look any better after treatment. The bushes will improve when the new growth emerges. Watch the new growth for any signs of damage (light-colored spots on top of leaves, dark brown spots on the undersides). If you see damage to the new growth, spray it again.

cause root rot (Phytophthora, Pythium and Rhizoctonia, primarily) are very active. If the soil is kept constantly moist or wet, this encourages the root rot fungi to attack. Root rot infections may make plants look wilted, even though the soil is moist. As the root rot organism kills the roots, sections of a plant may wilt and die, or the entire plant may suddenly collapse. During intense heat, it is crucial to water dry landscapes, but it is just as important not to water excessively. Plants will generally recover from drought stress when you notice

it and water them. But by the time you see the symptoms of root rot caused by excessive irrigation, it’s too late, and the infections are often fatal. That’s why you will often hear the advice, “It’s better to water too little than too much.” We’ve got plenty more hot weather ahead. Be sure to take breaks and drink plenty of water when working outside. As always, we and our gardens will make it through this most difﬁcult time of year, and we’ll be ready to breathe a sigh of relief when milder weather ﬁnally arrives, hopefully, in September.

Dan Gill is a retired consumer horticulture specialist with the LSU AgCenter. He hosts the “Garden Show” on WWL-AM Saturdays at 9 a.m. Email gardening questions to gnogardening@agcenter.lsu. edu.

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Elegant Old Metairie home has a jewelbox quality BY VICTOR ANDREWS Staff writer

There’s a jewelbox quality to the home at 59 Farnham Place in Old Metairie, though it might not appear so from the elegant front facade. Sitting on a curved drive with neat-as-a-pin landscaping, the neutral-toned brick home has a commanding presence on a street of impressive houses. The four floor-length windows and glass-paneled front door give a glimpse of the windowed world inside this four-bedroom, four-bath 1980s home with almost 5,000 square feet, listed for $2.75 million. The front porch spans the structure and is a graceful entry to the home. The foyer is expansive, featuring rich wood floors, high ceilings and architectural details that finish the space neatly without being PROVIDED PHOTOS By JAMES NORTON overdone. The broad front porch and plentiful parking are visual cues from the street of the elegance inside. To the left, a sitting room or lounge is a prime spot for receiving guests or for quiet conversations. It also has a series of built-in cabinets that make the sector a covert yet handy unseen storage area. Across the hall, the formal dining room enjoys a duo of floor-length windows and repeats the golden wood tones of the foyer floor. A spin to the left around the corner of the lounge opens the main living area of the home that includes a powder room next to the home’s elevator. The jewelbox effect takes off in the living room, with a wall of windows and doors facThe living room is the home’s heart, complete with a large Keeping the chef company is easy in this professional-inspired ing the backyard. The space fireplace, plentiful storage and a wall of windows and doors kitchen, with a central island that provides not only vast is anchored by a fireplace and flanked by cabinets and overlooking the backyard. workspace, but also seating for conversation and noshing. shelves for storage and disA walk-in pantry is a treasure shared by the kitchen, a wonGlass-front cabinets on play of objets d’art. Evident, try, plus an icemaker. trove of storage, with a bar yet discreetly tucked stairs Next up is a window-lined derland of culinary possibility one side over the sink offer a sink and additional appliances. chance to highlight items or lead to the upper floor. breakfast room that looks out and entertaining. A central Rest and rejuvenation are provide easy reference for Around the corner, a wet bar, to the manicured back lawn, a island with a marble counter the underlying themes of the which is also just off the rear delightful spot to enjoy coffee provides plenty of preparation cooking. Opposite is the wall home’s second floor, with four of stainless appliances with patio, includes wine storage and a morning meal. space but is also adept at hanitems from Wolf and Sub-Zero. bedrooms accessible via the and an abundance of cabineThe view of the back is also dling four diners or visitors.

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Added to the property in 2023, the swimming pool brings aquatic fun to the mix of backyard bounty.

An office with built-in storage and two walk-in closets are part of the primary suite.

stairs or elevator. The primary suite’s sleeping chamber at the top of the stairs is a grand quarter with large windows. Supple carpet underfoot warms the space and helps dampen sounds for relaxation. On one side of the room, a short hall leads into the dressing area, which includes a

On the other side of the home, two large bedrooms share a Jack and Jill bath especially designed for dual occupants, with twin sinks and two seating areas, plus a bathshower combination. The fourth bedroom is an en suite highlighted by striking black tilework around the tubshower.

walk-in closet with custom shelves and apparel storage. The spa-inspired bath section has an oval free-standing tub, a large vanity with seating and a water closet. The other side of the room has a home ofﬁce with a furniture-like wall of shelves, two additional walk-in closets and a tiled bath with a shower.

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pieces you do not want to part with. Either way, there is hope for that bathroom you have come to dread. I think it is safe to assume Inside Sources checked (and yes, I know the rules in with Misty Dickerson, of about assumptions) that no PROVIDED PHOTOS Southern Refinishing one likes a grimy A shower refinished by Southern Refinishing LLC. One of the most used rooms in the house, a LLC, who “does everybathroom. As one of bathroom can suffer from chipped or discolored fixtures, dingy grout and moldy sealant over time. the most frequented thing but the actual rooms in our homes, glazing” for the comby not just the home’s three hours to complete one the frustration of ripping out pany, which was esin a bathroom or kitchen. All occupants but also and replacing a tub. They sim- tub. It’s a two-day process. fixtures, tile replacement, tablished in 1966. The guests, our bathrooms family-owned business ply don’t make things the way On day one, we do most of the enclosure replacement or see a lot of action. Afwork: stripping, cleaning and any other renovation project is headed by Les Dick- they once did, and we love glazing. On day two, for clishould be done first. helping homeowners keep erson (second generater a while, it shows M. Dickerson How long is the space out of comthrough chipped and ents in the New Orleans metro tion) and George Bane original fixtures. Who is your typical customer? discolored fixtures, grout that (third generation) and serarea, we return, usually in the mission? Our customers range from no amount of cleaning can fix evening, to apply the compliAfter caulking is applied, let vices southeast Louisiana and homeowners looking to renoand moldy, discolored sealant. the Gulf Coast. mentary caulking and remove it dry for 24 hours, and then According to USA Cabinet the tub, sink or whatever can This interview has been edvate to landlords doing repairs any prep paper and tape. Store, a kitchen and bathroom ited for length and clarity. be used. Before they call us, it is exfor a new move-in, to contracremodeling company and What kind of money are we talking What are your company’s capabilitremely important for people tors doing renovations, to cabinet distributor founded about? hotels, parish buildings, boats to know there must be workties? in 2011 with showrooms On average, a tub refinished and even museums. Most call We reglaze bathroom and ing air conditioning and heatthroughout the South and us because they are looking kitchen fixtures. We restore ing to keep the space between for the first time is $700. If it’s along the East Coast, the nafor an alternative to replacing 65 and 70 degrees so the glaze been glazed before or needs bathtubs, tile, vanities and their tub. Lots of will cure properly. There must minor repairs, it’s about $800. tional average for a bathroom sinks rather than people don’t even replace them. We be running water and working Vanities, sinks — kitchen and renovation is $16,500 with a SOUTHERN bath — and countertops are know refinishing electricity. The drain in the range of $180-$350 per square help homeownREFINISHING is a possibility. We tub or sink must be working quoted based on their size. foot. Such a renovation will ers recycle their For a clawfoot tub to be have a warranty properly. There must be no also lock you out of that most- irreplaceable — LLC on all our products leaking or dripping faucets or glazed for the first time, it used room for five to eight older isn’t always handles. No other work should is $1,300 to blast, prime and weeks. bad — fixtures. 708 Barataria Blvd., except kitchen reglaze inside and out. If it is sinks, due to the be done in or around the USA Cabinet Store cites a We specialize in Marrero interior-only, then it is $600. nature of their reglazing area on the day of range of $5,000-$10,000 for restoring antique (504) 677-1770 If it is only the exterior, then use. reglazing and for at least two a budget bathroom refresh. clawfoot tubs, and southernrefinishing.com Do you do minor it is $700. Repairs start at $75. days after. The room must be This represents a 4%-6% inall of them are Stripping is $200. If the clirepairs like chips and as dust-free as possible, and porcelain-coated. crease from 2025, driven by deep scratches or only full surface all personal items and shower ent wants a color other than We also restore and repair fiskilled labor shortages and refinishes? curtains should be removed. material cost inflation, with white, there is an additional berglass and ceramic tile. We absolutely do minor reWe also ask that people costs expected to rise further $300 charge. Refinishing is a great option clean the area the day before in 2027. for those who need to renopairs if possible. We do it all. Maybe you don’t have the What does the typical job look like? service with only Dawn dish vate but don’t have the means Jyl Benson writes about soap and water. Reglazing budget to buy new fixtures, How long does it take? for a full renovation. We save homes and gardens. Email should be the last project done her at jylbenson@gmail.com. or maybe you have historic On average, it takes two to homeowners time, money and Contributing writer

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INSIDE INFO Week of events honor Longue Vue founders

A weeklong celebration of Edgar and Edith Stern, founders of the historic Longue Vue House and Gardens, will be Oct. 12-17, with a look into the lives of the couple that built the home. The Sterns lived at the 7 Bamboo Road estate from 1923 to 1978 and activated the facility for public service and spurred social progress in the Crescent City. Activities surrounding the celebration include a dinner at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, a book release, jazz performance, Games in the Garden fundraiser and community games day. For information, visit longuevue.com.

‘Natives in the Militia’ concludes lecture series Early Louisiana residents in the Gálvez Regiment and Militia will be the subject of a ﬁnal lecture of the series by the Friends of the Cabildo. Kevin Harrell will speak on “Natives in the Militia” at 6 p.m. Tuesday on Zoom. It will be recorded for viewing afterward. Cost for the lectures is $10 for nonmembers and free for members. October will include lectures about Creole Heritage Month. For information, visit friendsofthecabildo.org.

Beautiful Spaces panel planned at BK House The Historic BK House & Gardens is hosting its annual Beautiful Spaces Symposium on Sept. 19. The bicentennial event will include a deep dive into the home’s architectural history, as well as the preservation and legacy of historic properties. Presenters include acclaimed architect Robert Cangelosi, of Koch & Wilson; master craftsman Jeff Poreé; architectural historian and preservationist Ann Masson; and Friends of

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Edith and Edgar Stern turned the New Orleans estate they lived in from 1923 to 1978 into a public space called Longue Vue House and Gardens. the Cabildo tour guide and researcher Joanna Caprera. Beautiful Spaces 2026 will take place in the ballroom at 1113 Chartres St., beginning with coffee & pastries at 9:30 a.m., followed by a midday lunch and a cocktail reception at 3 p.m. Reservations are required by Sept. 15. Visit bkhouse.org.

Bugs, and People of the Southern Landscape” will be Oct. 9 at the Castine Center at Pelican Park in Mandeville. Speakers, starting at 9 a.m., will include Elise Smith, coauthor of “Southern Women, Southern Landscapes”; Jeff Wilson, Mississippi State AgCenter coordinator for “Incorporating Native and Non-native Plants in your Garden”; and Linda Auld (The Bug Lady), whose topic will be “Plant It and They Will Come.” Registration is required and is open. Tickets start at $40. Register at stmastergardener. org/event. All seats are reserved.

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A variety of cleanup days and initiatives are on tap at City Park to improve and maintain the extensive urban green space. Those coming up include: n Urban Forest Support Initiative: 9 a.m. Saturday, Volunteer Center, 1031 Harrison Ave. n Pelican Greenhouse Summer VolRegistration for the annual unteer Series: 8 a.m. Tuesday and Friends of Jefferson the Beau- Thursday, 2 Celebration Drive. An eight-week series for inditiful is open for the seminar in October. vidual volunteers to assist in Tree School on Oct. 29 at the greenhouse operations. n Litter Abatement Campaign: Jefferson Performing Arts Center in Metairie is open to 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday. Volcommunity tree enthusiasts unteer Center, 1031 Harrison and working professionals such Ave. n Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoraas arborists, landscape architects and other professionals tion Project: 8 a.m. Friday. Big to earn continuing education Lake Native Trail near 7 Friedhours while learning from lead- richs Ave. n City Park Kayak Cleanup: 8 a.m. ers in the ﬁeld. Professional attendees are welcome at no cost to 11 a.m. Aug. 29. Meet at the gravel launch at the intersecand community members can attend for $10. tion of Dueling Oaks Drive and Speakers for the school Dreyfous Drive. Volunteers are include Skip Kincaid, Beau sought to join City Park’s kayak Brodbeck, James Komen, Dana krewe that will work with staff Brown, Lynn Dupont, Michael to remove litter from waterReid and Amanda Rivera. ways with the use of personal Visit friendsofjeffersonthekayaks. Register for the programs beautiful.org. and ﬁnd out what to bring at friendsofcitypark.volunteerhub.com.

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New Orleans interior designers say 1980s home decor trends are back this autumn BY JYL BENSON

Contributing writer

No matter what the calendar or thermostat may say, it is time to start thinking about autumn. Direct your focus to falling leaves, cozy sweaters, toasty beverages and a refresh of our homes. In the interest of putting a rush job on fall while putting the kibosh on this summer of swelter and discontent, I took a dive into

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Interior designer Penny Francis says autumn 2026 is seeing a ‘clear shift — more confident, more layered and unapologetically designdriven.’

what lies just ahead. Autumn 2026 interior design shifts toward “cocooning warmth,” replacing stark minimalism, cold greige and cool white with rich, restorative mineral colors, high-shine lacquered ﬁnishes and tactile fabric layering. The focus centers on timeless, comforting spaces rather than temporary novelty. Do you remember the rich jewel tones, plaids, paisleys and velvets of the Ralph Lauren-driven

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Interior designer Curtis Herring said he’s seeing the return of timeless fall elements like warm wood tones, rich leather and classic plaid.

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Whitney Wilkinson, of Whitney Wilkinson Design, says ‘rich textures add warmth, helping a space feel comfortable, inviting and lived-in.’

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ABOVE: For this client’s living room, designer Curtis Herring chose neutral walls and an otherwise dark, mineral-toned palette paired with warm accents to add depth. PROVIDED PHOTO By CURTIS HERRING

LEFT: For this stunning formal dining room, designer Whitney Wilkinson indulged her fondness for muddy greens that mix so well with other colors. The rich textures of the velvet upholstery and the statement chandelier add warmth and visual complexity. PROVIDED PHOTO By LAURA STEFFAN

At the recent 2026 High Point Market in North Carolina, New Orleans interior designer Penny Francis noticed an abundance of furnishings with high-shine lacquered finishes, from stools (like those pictured here) to larger pieces such as credenzas and dining tables. PROVIDED PHOTO By PENNy FRANCIS

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In this bathroom, designer Penny Francis moved away from overly decorative, trend-focused interiors and toward details that feel grounded, personal and restorative. She chose colors and designs that provide enduring appeal, versatility and emotional connection, avoiding fleeting microtrends. warmth and depth while plaids add a sense of nostalgia. Incorporating these materials creates spaces that feel layered, inviting and collected. These PROVIDED PHOTOS By ALISON GOOTEE qualities make a home feel Designer Penny Francis used a heavily textured mineral green wallpaper with a similar shade on the especially welcoming while we velvet-upholstered dining room chairs. Natural wood beams and the wooden chandelier complement transition into fall.” So, there you have it. Adios the palette. to cool white, beige, cold gray rich plum and chocolate brown ful guru of color according to and pale washed-out whatnot. instead of stark neutrals. Pair Antiques and “brown” furher clients. “Muddy greens Continued from page 12 these with warm accents to mix so well with other colors, niture are definitely back as add depth — burnt orange, and rich textures add warmth, statement pieces, as are pieces rust, ochre and deep golds helping a space feel comfortmade of, or veneered with, are best used in cushions and travertine. 1980s? They’re back. able, inviting and lived-in.” small accessories rather than “Brown furniture is firmly New Orleans interior de“I just returned from marback,” Francis said. “Parket,” said Penny Francis, a cel- for entire walls. Also trending signer Curtis Herring echoed these sentiments. ticularly in medium to darker ebrated local interior designer are shades of pale blue paired with organic greens and warm, “When I think of fall, I think tones. Burled woods leaned and owner of Eclectic Home. pared-back neutrals. of warm wood tones, rich deeper in finish, and we saw “There was a clear shift — “I’m loving warmer, more leather and classic plaid,” Her- the introduction of vellum and more confident, more layered enveloping colors and textures ring said. “This season, I’m parchment tops adding subtle and unapologetically designthat add depth and make a driven.” seeing those timeless elements texture and warmth.” room feel cozy without feeling return in fresh, elevated ways. High-shine lacquered finishDark, mineral-toned wall dark or heavy,” said designer palettes include smoky jades, Natural wood paired with es — think burgundy coffee taWhitney Wilkinson, a mastereucalyptus sages, oxblood, leather. Antique pieces bring bles or cabinets — and glossy

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surfaces are, again, bringing us right back to the 1980s, but this time with an overlay of modern mod-vintage energy. “Lacquered furniture was everywhere,” Francis said of the 2026 High Point Market of home furnishings in North Carolina, “showing up in richly saturated colors across stools, tables and credenzas. The high-gloss ﬁnishes gave pieces a depth and presence that felt fresh and intentional. The 1970s and ’80s certainly were calling. “Tables, whether side, console or dining, took on a more sculptural presence. Bases ranged from modern to traditional, but all had a sense of form and intention that made them feel like focal points. Think jewelry and biophilic design as inspiration for the bases.” Textures and layering are

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part of building a lavish nest for oneself: velvet, wool and soft leather. Nostalgic, handpainted ceramic and floral tiles have shoved simple checkerboard backsplashes to the rubbish heap, and atmospheric lighting is not going anywhere. Get your glow on with candles and classic table lamps rather than harsh overheads. “There was also a strong return to detail — fringe, cording, leather trim, ruffles and tailored skirts,” Francis said. “From multicolor fringe to box pleats, these dressmaker touches were applied to upholstery and pillows in a way that felt elevated, not overly precious.” Homeowners might save a few bucks by incorporating dried, sculptural botanical arrangements into their decor. They have more lasting power than fresh, seasonal blooms. Good or bad, we are also making greater investment in dedicated home-based activity zones, such as refined home offices and integrated home gyms. The isolation required of us during the COVID-19 pandemic remains a thing — we seem to have embraced making the most of our homes, then staying put there. The shift is away from highly decorative, trend-driven interiors and toward spaces that feel grounded, personal and restorative — created with colors and designs that offer lasting appeal, flexibility and emotional resonance instead of fleeting microtrends. Of her recent experience at the High Point Market, Francis said, “Overall, it felt refreshing to see so many new introductions. The last couple of markets, with the cloud of tariff uncertainty and a slower economy, didn’t leave much that felt memorable. “This time around, there was a clear shift: more creativity, more diversity in design and a willingness to take risks. It brought an energy back to the market that felt both inspiring and long overdue.” Jyl Benson writes about homes and gardens. Email her at jylbenson@gmail.com.

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This space, designed by Curtis Herring, fully embodies the return to the 1980s, also known as the age of Ralph Lauren, with an abundance of natural wood, leather, antiques and plaid draperies. For this elegant scullery, designer Whitney Wilkinson used shades of ‘au courant’ green that segues into the dining room, which features pieces of antique furniture and draperies with bold pops of warm colors. PROVIDED PHOTO By JACQUELINE MARQUE

Designer Whitney Wilkinson kept this chic space on trend with a deep, mineral-toned wall paired with warm accents that make the room feel cozy without feeling dark or heavy. PROVIDED PHOTO By LAURA STEFFAN

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS NEW ORLEANS n TRANSFERS FOR AUG. 11-15

DISTRICT 1 BANKS ST. 3101: $435,000, Mark T. Madura to Karla Daniela Mejia and Oscar Andres Cabrera. BARONNE ST. 1408, 1414: $200, 1424 Baronne LLC to 1408 Baronne LLC. CLEVELAND AVE. 3105-3107: $379,000, Morris Kirschman & Co. LLC to Colin Matthew Dickerson and Diamond Rae Dickerson. COLISEUM ST. 1765: $237,000, Jill Nicole Kitaura Way and Kelly Howell Way Kitaura to Dennis Joseph Kyne and Zhouran Wang Kyne. ORETHA CASTLE HALEY BLVD. 1122: $525,000, 1122 OCH LLC to Mission Properties Foundation.

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ORETHA CASTLE HALEY BLVD. 1122: $10 and other good and valuable consideration, Mission Properties Foundation to Dorothy Brown Administration Inc. and Joe W. & Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation. PRYTANIA ST. 1115, UNIT 205: $280,000, Daniel O’Connor, Kimberly Anne O’Connor, Jennifer Patricia Steiger Alexion Dixon and William E. Dixon to Trainor Properties 205 LLC. ST. CHARLES AVE. 1205, UNIT 803: $210,500, Robert A. Pulliam to Syracuse Bolotte Family Trust. S. GAYOSO ST. 227-229: $465,000, Nicholas J. Guzzardi to Crystal Anne Brennan. S. PETERS ST. 612-616: $3,600,000, Fulton Street Place LLC and Wolf of Nola LLC to Venieu LLC. TCHOUPITOULAS ST. 840: $58,000, Jonathan L. Kaplan to David B.

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DISTRICT 2 DECATUR ST. 220: $375,000, Gaba Properties LLC to Brenton Bohannon and Samantha Bohannon. GOVERNOR NICHOLLS ST. 524: $465,000, 801 Patterson Owner LLC to Jason Freelen. GOVERNOR NICHOLLS ST. 524: $440,000, 801 Patterson Owner LLC to Jeffrey Allen and Sonia Montejano. HENRIETTE DELILLE ST. 1031 : $52,500, RCAF Acquisition Trust to Raymond Alan Ledet. HARDING DRIVE 962-64: $602,000, Harding Drive LLC to Cheng Liu. ORLEANS AVE. 6134-36: $393,783, Cal Realty LLC to Jacob Matthew Eymard. URSULINE AVE. 2640-44: $310,000, MJ Falgoust Inc. to Quinlivan Homes LLC. URSULINES ST. 718, UNIT 8: $330,000, David E. Dupre and Susan Leblanc Dupre to Ernest Ruesdale Deal. VOISIN ST. 801-03: $610,000, Adam Henry Graff IV, Kristen Elizabeth Graff and Regina Grifﬁn Graff to Farhang Partners LLC.

DISTRICT 3 BRUXELLES ST. 3506: $110,000, Charles John Delaughter, Joan Gouzien Kurtz, Joy Marie Delaughter, Loretta Ann Delaughter Dolman, Michelle Kay Gouzien Higgins and succession of Robert Daniel Gouzien to Brian M. Bo. BURBANK DRIVE 1464, 1472: $789,500, Davis Reif Davis revocable living trust to Blake Robert Pollock and Therese Gratia Pollock.

BURKE AVE. 8007: $100,000, Kaylin M. Alexander Menard to Patricia Turner Rawls. CHARMES COURT 5043: $154,000, Rosetta Marie Etienne Edwards to Rosetta Cameron. CHEF MENTEUR HIGHWAY 25539: $75,000, Whitlee Properties LLC to Deharde Land 25565 Chef LLC. DESAIX BLVD. 3278: $198,100, Money Source Inc. to Marvel M. Robertson. EASTOVER DRIVE 6021: $57,500, Michael Raines to Kandace Marie Sentmore and Thaddeus J. Sentmore. ESPLANADE AVE. 917, UNIT 6: $220,000, Gallacher Baker Family revocable trust to Sarah Bay Wiley Hoagland and Willard Clayton Hoagland III. EXETER ST. 7810: $250,000, Barry Keith Schechter II to Raynard Omar Hall. EXPEDITION DRIVE 7512: $13,000, Equity Trust Co. to Jayla Charity Thomas Gnanbi.

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FRANCE ST. 714: donation, no value stated, Matthew J. McShee and Richard G. Allen to Peacock revocable living trust. HIGGINS BLVD. 2749: $60,000, Patricia Ann Cuffee Matthews and Stanley Peter Matthews to Jikieyla Darialle Walters. INDEPENDENCE ST. 1501, N. ROBERTSON ST. 3713-3713 1/2: $30,000, Next Step Rental 2 LLC to Gusto Property Management LLC. LAHARPE ST. 1620: $42,500, Leona M. Fisher to Montrell Carmouche. LEDA ST. 1520-22: $600,000, Arleen Goldblum, Derek Cracco and Nicole Cracco to Kathryn C. Rosamond and Robert P. Rosamond Jr. LESSEPS ST. 1507: $20,000, Dar Joseph Doublet to Ombra Nero LLC. MANDEVILLE ST. 708: $549,900, Eric Ehlenberger and Indra Ramiah Ehlenberger to Ellen Lee Judd. MARINERS COVE N. 10: $390,000, Meridien Development Inc. to Sheila T. Ostrow and Sheila Tusa. N. CLAIBORNE AVE. 3021: $11,500, Haley Joy Rea to Jason David Ehlers. N. TONTI ST. 1824: $183,750, Mario Duran Meza to Jessica M. Ard Wingﬁeld. S. HARDY ST. 11013: donation, no value stated, Karen R. Waldren and Steven L. Waldren to Waldren Family Trust. SPAIN ST. 4651: $410,000, Lyons Arthur Walsh III to Ereeni C. Roulakis and Zayd Khaled Sifri. VANDERKLOOT AVE. 7726: $72,600, IPF22 LLC to Randall Toca Investments LLC. WALLACE DRIVE 315: $201,001, Graham Arceneaux & Allen LLC to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. W. BARRINGTON DRIVE 11721:

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS $225,000, Kerrie N. Ross to Taneka Clarette Birden.

DISTRICT 4 JACKSON AVE. 418, 420, PHILIP ST. 442; ROUSSEAU ST. 2330; SORAPARU ST. 437, 439, 445, 447, 449, 457, 459, TCHOUPITOULAS ST. 2225: $100 and other good and valuable consideration, Jackson Avenue Holding LLC, Jackson Common Real Estate LLC, Main Real Estate LLC, Philip 28 Real Estate LLC and Rousseau Real Estate LLC to BK Commercial Property LLC. JACKSON AVE. 418, 420, PHILIP ST. 442, ROUSSEAU ST. 2330, SORAPARU ST. 437, 439, 445, 447, 449 457, 459, TCHOUPITOULAS ST. 2225: $100 and other good and valuable consideration, BK Commercial Property LLC to River Parish Industrial LLC. MAGAZINE ST. 2412-14: $915,000, Mab Property I LLC to Anna Kuzmik Sampas and George James Sampas. PRYTANIA ST. 1921, UNIT Q: $158,000, John Gregory Danna to Angelina Marie Grob and Paul Daniel Grob. SEVENTH ST. 436, 440: donation, no value stated, Sandra Seidman to Jayson Seidman. SIXTH ST. 1828: $285,000, Steven Craig Bondy Living Trust and Meghan Marie Bondy Living Trust to Kyle Miller and Sarah Moses Miller.

DISTRICT 5 BERKLEY DRIVE 4639: $295,000, Melva D. Williams and succession of Morris A. Williams to JC Jim Jackson and Lisa Brown Jackson. HUDSON PLACE 2800: $305,000, Eric M. Kobrock and Joanne Scarnato Kobrock to Christopher Ryan Weis and Elizabeth Marie Weis. LE BOEUF ST. 435: donation, no value stated, Lucille Jolivette to Mary Bernadette Jolivette. MIMOSA COURT 3660: $232,500, Robert Wade Kimbro and Yvonne M. Kimbro to Michael Alan Kimbro and Ollie Courville Kimbro. NUMA ST. 1906: $26,401, Generation Family Properties LLC to Markee1 LLC. SEAWARD COURT 20: $480,000, Amy Cochran Jolly and Robert Lee Jolly II to Clarence Gray Jr. SEGUIN ST. 326-328: $299,000, Cherryse P. Zeller and Henry Zeller to Cheryl Laborde. SEGUIN ST. 427-429: $345,000, Jennifer Marie Raymond and Lance D. Raymond to Jonathan A. Page and Sarah E. Tanno Page.

VALLETTE ST. 812-814: donation, no value stated, JTD Properties LA1 LLC to Jennifer Monique Dyer and Thomas Dyer.

DISTRICT 6 AMELIA ST. 814: donation, no value stated, Andrew D. Thomson to Danetta L. Beaushaw. AUSTERLITZ ST. 814-16: $155,000, Evan Wolf and Karen Larkin Wolf to Laura Deer Moore. CADIZ ST. 4219: $466,500, Jennifer Watkins Degier and Matthew L. Degier to Michelle Brown McCourt and Quinn McCourt. CAMP ST. 5317: $906,000, Angela Cocran Sella to Jesse Duhon and Lorna Michelle Duhon. CONSTANTINOPLE ST. 511: $122,500, Chad M. Harris and Patricia Gail Briant to Pretty Perfect LLC. DRYADES ST. 4909-11: $485,000, Katherine Jane Staudinger and Robin Mary Staudinger Williamson to Bruce James Simoneaux and Lynn Granberry Simoneaux. FOUCHER ST. 2001-2003: $443,000, Joseph Stephen Novak, Judith Carbauth Novak and Sarah E. Novak to John T. Waters and Laura Maxson Waters. LASALLE ST. 3700, 3701: $215,000, First African Baptist Church of The 6th District and First American Baptist Church of The Six District to Lagniappe Realty Team LLC. MAGAZINE ST. 4300: $1,650,000, WJJ LLC to Ecole Bilingue De La Nouvelle Orleans. NEWCOMB BLVD. 18: $1,350,000, Craig Isenberg and Maria Muro Isenberg to Elizabeth F. Bucher and Michael Bucher. N. ROBERTSON ST. 1465, NASHVILLE AVE.6, UNIT Q, ORLEANS

AVE. 6136: donation, no value stated, Harry D. Brock to Three Sixteen Legacy Trust. PALMER AVE. 2714: $595,000, Jeanmarie Nowlan Hirao and Joey Hirao to Gary Baumann and Neha Pandya Baumann. PALMER AVE. 2925: $495,000, John Shafter to Dakota Stephens and Faith A. Stephens. PRYTANIA ST. 6024: $1,910,000, Jackson B. Fager to Bret Brielmaier and Kristina Ann Brielmaier. TCHOUPITOULAS ST. 3989-91: $302,500, Chad M. Harris and Patricia Gail Briant to Pretty Perfect LLC. VENDOME PLACE 4145: $775,000, Kyle Francis Walther and Megan Peck Walther to Kathryn Hodgdon and Sarah Blake Walsh. WALNUT ST. 332: $1,050,000, Rue Management LLC to Amanda Green. WEBSTER ST. 601: $879,000, Luck Properties LLC to Leena Sepp Johnson and Loch Kingsford Johnson.

DISTRICT 7 BELLAIRE DRIVE 232: $625,000, Bancroft Property Investments LLC to Elizabeth Landry Eiser and John William Eiser. CAMBRONNE ST. 1000-02-04-06: $250,000, Daniel Lund III, Guy S. McNiel and Myrtle Brandt McNiel to Mark B. Bruser. DANNEEL ST. 4109-1, DUBLIN ST. 918, FRERET ST. 8202, MARENGO ST. 2000-02: donation, no value stated, Hans Bernard Arata to Arata Family Living Trust. DANTE ST. 2109: $342,000, Camille Marie Lemann to Christopher Blake Duhon Lee and David Soloman Lee Duhon.

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HARAHAN BAILEY ST. 177: Margie B. Gillespie to Elizabeth M. Leblanc, $212,500. GROVE AVE. 768: Jean A. Hamer to Guochang Zeng, $107,000. MAYO AVE. 280: Ryan Demma to Jonathan Muller, $396,000. RAVAN AVE. 189: Salvador A. Portera Jr. to Christine A. Ward, $200,000. WEST AVE. 362: Sandra M.J. Lambert to Gary J. Eymard, $307,000.

JEFFERSON DODGE AVE. 515: C Means to Marcus R. Herbert, $385,000.

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FLEUR DE LIS DRIVE 6564, 6574: $100, Jules Albert Construction LLC, succession of Jules G. Albert Jr. and Nancy Hendley Albert to Jincheg A. Property LLC. LEONIDAS ST. 1127: $590,000, Terrence A. Davis to Matthew McClung and Tara Faircloth McClung. OAK TREE DRIVE 126: $515,000, Jon Lashley Sr. and Kara Elizabeth Fuocco Lashley to Cecilia Johnston Bourg and David Francis Bourg Jr. PLUM ST. 8427-299: $180,000, Antoinette Dallon Millon, Janice Marie Dallon and Vernell Brown Sr. to Nola Opoly LLC. SPINNAKER LANE 5: $312,500, Claire Joyce Raphael and David Coleman Raphael Sr. to Gary L. Mesa and Michelle Ann Popp Edmiston.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS EAST

Continued from page 17 HARDING ST. 129: Isaac D. Yurco to James Coullard, $490,000. JEFFERSON ST. 530: Elizabeth R. Davis to Kyle C. Landry, $352,000. JULES AVE. 110: Matthews Family Holdings LLC to Allison J.H. Cheramie, $390,000. ODWYER PLACE 1113: Catherine H. Gomes to Albaro A. II Pineda, $115,000.

KENNER 23RD ST. 124: Don Lobb to Bbl Flooring LLC, $300,000. A PHOENIX ST. 3113: Duvie A. Pugh to Duvie L. V Pugh, donation, no value stated. ANDROUS AVE. 77: Elena M.A.

Pizzo to LS Realty LLC, $180,000. BOIMARE AVE. 23: Kathy M. Baird to Qin Lin, $315,000. COLORADO AVE. 3705: Aurora T. Cyprus to Lizandro Martinez Jr., $115,000. COMPROMISE ST. 1309: Mario Ridgley to Eric Ridgley, donation, no value stated. DARBONNE COURT 10: LS Realty LLC to Hannah P. Quarles, $359,900. IOWA AVE. 3116: Mark K. Phillips to RNS Property Group LLC, $196,261. IOWA AVE. 3116: RNS Property Group LLC to Cameron Galdamez, $290,000. KANSAS AVE. 1911: Arthur T. Laurent to Gustavo A. Machigua, $120,000. KENTUCKY AVE. 1918: Donna A.E. Lacour to Mirian L.R.A. Ferrera, $55,000.

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SHENANDOAH ST. 30: Carolyn M.G. Treuting to Stephen J. Larussa, $510,000. WILLIAMS BLVD. 4232, UNIT G: MLC Property Group LLC to Mlc Property Group LLC, $153,125.

METAIRIE APOLLO DRIVE 3817: Armato Family Trust to Austyn M.J.H. Mayers, $275,000. BARNETT ST. 4625: Leslie A.H. Milota to Willard M. Kinnion, $460,000. BERESFORD DRIVE 54: Erainer Eberhardt to Ron A. Austin, $2,325,000. BEVERLY DRIVE 169: Elizabeth Y. Wilson to Dardel Properties LLC, $615,000. BONNABEL BLVD. 243: Chelsea B. Organ to Jonathan L. Schultis, $730,000. CARROLLTON AVE. 528: Michaela Sautbine to Reid B. Powell, $306,000. CHRISTINE ST. 6809: Lb Shed Series IV Trust to Fla Dream Home Builder L.L.P., $143,750. CONCORD AVE. 1600: Samuel T. Bass to Christian P. Villafranco, $350,000. DAVID DRIVE 3108-10: Jennifer L. Leblanc to Barakah 1110 LLC,

$465,000. HELIOS AVE. 414: Jenna Kelly to Elysian Investments LLC, $435,000. HOME AVE. 1700: Judith Q. Champagne to Kim K. Kelly, $380,000. ITHACA ST. 6613: Amanda Usner to AJ Homes LLC, $125,000. LAKESHORE DRIVE 1321: Gail P.P. Nalley to Lucy C. Hood, $250,000. MARCIE ST. 6201: Daniel A. Coe to Jessica A. Manuel, $275,000. METAIRIE HEIGHTS AVE. 3501: Francis J. Hebert Jr. to Treide H. Perrault, donation, no value stated. N. ARNOULT ROAD U114 3320: Tara C. Ripp to Bhaviniben Lad, $91,000. N. UPLAND AVE. 801: Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Siha Realty LLC, $150,500. NEYREY DRIVE 1012: Nettie N. White to Rocket Mortgage LLC, $115,000. OLD METAIRIE ST. 1724: Seda O. Santanello to One Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty Four Old Metairie Street LLC, $275,000. PERSIMMON AVE. 1908: Alexis Wolff to Natalie L.G. Herbert, $298,000. PURDUE DRIVE 4616: E Weis to Ksm Holdings LLC, $285,000. PURDUE DRIVE 4700: Four Thou-

sand Seven Hundred Purdue LLC to Jayme J. Deoliveira, $210,000. RUE BURGUNDY U214 801: Charles B. Faught to John J. Giambelluca, $415,000. SCHOUEST ST. 6505: Penny L. Putfart to Kh Flip LLC, $150,000. STONIA ROAD 6108: Herbert F. Wax Jr. to Timothy R. Obrien Jr., $480,000. TOLMAS DRIVE 3913: Donna B. Kemp to Nicole M. Moss, $512,000. TOLMAS DRIVE 4005: Kevin Kwon to Sarah Mills, $800,000. VETERANS BLVD. 3500: Louisiana Holdings LLC of Nevada to Regina LLC, $742,500. WABASH ST. 4820: New Horizon Learning Academy to Gulf Coast Bank & Trust, $275,000. WALDO ST. 240: Francisca C. Lopez to Owens P. Tovar, donation, no value stated. WARSAW ST. 8024: Candace R. Carter to Verna Carter, donation, no value stated.

RIVER RIDGE STEPHEN DRIVE 10137: New Orleans Property Ventures Inc. to Courtney L. Tassin, $297,000. WALTER ROAD 363: Richard Gitter to Andre E. Feigler, $1,537,000.

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CATHERINE LANE 125: David Ronquille Jr. to Susan M. Basso, $195,000.

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GRETNA AVE. MONT MARTRE 2449: Sandy L. Bermudez to Diep T. V Tran, $300,000. BROOKMEADE DRIVE 556: William W. Quinn to Seven Hundred Seven Grefer Street LLC, $135,000. CREAGAN AVE. 133: Jane H. Kynoch to Deborah Thomas, $185,000. FAIRFIELD AVE. 2729: Thuyan N. Thi to Ahmad Morad, $255,000. KINGSWAY DRIVE E. 949: Ace Securities Corp. Home Equity Loan Trust Series 2006 ASAP6 to Diego F. Aguilera, $95,003. NEWTON ST. 2224: Foundation Real Estate Group LLC to Foundation Real Estate Group LLC, $140,000. PALFREY ST. 919: ARM Properties LLC to SPL Account LLC, $13,000.

HARVEY COLOMBO DRIVE 2284: Medgar Williams to Elegant Houses LLC, $185,000. LAC BIENVILLE DRIVE 4144: D Wright to Foundation Real Estate Group LLC, $20,000. MANHATTAN BLVD. U170 2928: Anh Le to Nguyen T. Le, donation, no value stated. MAPLEWOOD DRIVE 1204: Cecil Kaigler to Hervie D. Kaigler, donation, no value stated. MAPLEWOOD DRIVE 1542: Philip J. Rehage to Connie L. Rehage, donation, no value stated. PETERS ROAD 2245: Gootee Realty LLC to Drake Holdings LLC, $1,300,000. SQUIREWOOD DRIVE E 1951: Bungalow Series IV Trust to Julissa M. Castro, $420,000. SUGARLOAF DRIVE 2004: Roy E. Brown to Lester Epherson Jr., $120,000. TALLOW TREE LANE 1152: Fiorela Trigueros to Bayview Loan Servicing, $210,000. TIMBERLANE WAY DRIVE 3216: Jennifer C. Magee to Fatmeh Ismail, $170,000.

BARK AVE. 2716: Kim L.T.D. Nguyen to Seecharran Santoke Sr., $214,000. JEANNE ST. 2709: Henry A. Goubert Jr. to Michelle Atchley, $178,000. MOUNT RUSHMORE DRIVE 5165: Beatrice C. Babineaux to J Bourg, $87,500. OAKLEY DRIVE 3: Sandra S. Lefort to Susan P. Posecai, $535,000. TETON ST. 4221: Alma L. Wells to Annette L. Foley, $107,350. WOODSTREAM DRIVE 5215: Eddie L. Hill to Brittney B. Gross, $130,000. WYOMING DRIVE 2629: Carl A. Ivey Jr. to Anthony Hudson Jr., $250,000.

TERRYTOWN AMAPOLA CIRCLE 319: LB Dwelling Series VI Trust to Green Homes Rem LLC, $79,100. MYSTIC AVE. 820: Elegant Houses LLC to Unique Stone Group LLC, $147,000. NORTH MARLIN COURT 532: K&A Homes LLC to Marquia S. Duncan, $319,900.

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MARRERO AVE. D 728: Noelle S. Mckoin to Huong P. Duyen, $270,000. AVE. F 415, UNIT P, BUILDING T: Crescent City Real Estate & Property Management LLC to Francisco Estrella, $52,100.

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ABITA SPRINGS HILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB SUBDIVISION, LOTS 7, 8, SQUARE 6: Jorn Gulliksen to CRHGZH LLC, $15,000. NEAR ABITA SPRINGS, PORTION OF GROUND: Debra M. Pierce to Matthew Rayburn and Desire E. Pierce, donation, no value stated. NIBLICK STREET, LOT 17, SQUARE 14: Tamprop Inc. and JP&KP WA LLC to Gerson Y. Oliva Rivera, $14,000. PELICAN ESTATES, LOT 32: Johnny F. Smith testamentary Trust to James B. Blitch III and Melissa G Blitch, $16,500. PERSIMMON LANE 28555: David C. Chatelain and Cynthia M. Chatelain to Garrett P. Venable, $472,000.

COVINGTON ABITA RIVER DRIVE 1073: Vanne Construction LLC to Leah C. Giambrone, $488,000. ABITA RIVER DRIVE 1321: David P. Jones and Elizabeth S. Jones to Danial Spedale and Susan Spedale, $499,000. AUDUBON TRAIL SUBDIVISION, LOT 29: Brett F. Wilolie and Erin Willie Howard to Kevin P. Faucon and Margarita D. Faucon, $355,000. BRUNNING ROAD 20316: Jesse Jenkins, Amy Jenkins and Floyd R. Jenkins Jr. to Mollly D. Jenkins, donation, no value stated. CAMRON DRIVE 1717: MG

Haggar LLC to Jeffrey W. Smith, $325,500. CAROLINE COURT 200: Caroline Court LLC to T Hemelt Properties LLC, $1,545,000. CATALPA TRACE 54: Bittu Singh LLC to Nabeel Idrees, $750,000. CHRETIEN POINT AVE. 1029: Terra Bella Group LLC to RLH Construction of Louisiana LLC, $180,000. CITY OF COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: St. Tammany Parish to City of Covington, $45,593. CRESTWOOD DRIVE 922: Rogers R. Serpas Jr. to Scott Wandler and Lesley M. Wandler, $343,500. CYPRESS POINT DRIVE 4221: J. P. Huff Construction LLC to Miles Roppolo and Sadie I. Roppolo, $682,500. DOVE PARK ROAD 725: Terri Lewis Stevens to Cash To Win, $540,000. E. SEVENTH AVE. 620: Suzie B LLC

SANDY WARD

to Brad W. Lebert and Tammie F. Lebert, $1,850,000. HICKORY DRIVE 16: Karen Lander Gauthier to Ian Connelly and Samantha Read Connelly, $210,000. IVY DRIVE 102: Succession of Clarice Marion Sellers Desalvo to Dawn M. Czop, $240,000. KNOLL PINE CIRCLE 241: John Gary Gray to Alicia Bouvier Gray, donation, no value stated. LAKE FOREST DRIVE 19: Edward V. Brown III to 19 Lake Forest LLC, $1,400,000. LAKE PLACID DRIVE 71232: Mary E. Jones Wickline to Keith N. David Adams Jr., $230,000. LARK LANE 80449: Thomas M. Seeger to Thomas F. Seeger, donation, no value stated. LARK LANE, PORTION OF

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810 GERRY DRIVE

1500 W. ESPLANADE #28C

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3320 N. ARNOULT RD. #231

2732 WHITNEY PL. #101

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Rare 3 Bed, 3 Bath 3,862 sqft corner condo designed and owned by renowned architect Arthur Davis. This light-ﬁlled residence features 15 oversized windows, 12-foot ceilings, custom stained glass, expansive entertaining spaces, multiple balconies. Amenities also include 3 indoor parking spaces, rooftop pool and ﬁtness center. All steps from downtown attractions and the French Quarter. A Must See!

1500 W. ESPLANADE #35D

4101 HESSMER AVE. #312

KENNER - $119,000

METAIRIE - $108,000

LAYMAN ST. 229: Gloria Simmons to Tarhonda Gee, donation, no value stated.

WESTWEGO AVE. C 631: Doyce V Wallace to Onity Loan Acquisition Trust 2025 H.B.2., $95,000. AVE. G 751: Peyton Adam to Thomas A. Williams, $215,000. DUMONDE DRIVE 519: Rachel B. Brown to Matthew Brown, donation, no value stated. GERRIE COURT 324: Marie H. Meyer to Uniﬁed Properties Group LLC, $80,000.

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225 GIROD STREET, UNIT 302 THE WATERBURY CONDOMINIUM

LAFITTE CHURCH ST. 5302: Tracie R. Perrin to Christine D. Rome, $100,000.

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Continued from page 19 GROUND: Thomas M. Seeger to Thomas F. Seeger and Katherine D. Seeger, donation, no value stated. MISTLETOE DRIVE 47: Edward V. Brown III and Sarah Cuccia Brown to Clint M. Favre and Brittany Serpas Favre, $900,000. N. DOGWOOD DRIVE 67: Edmond S. Drivon and Janet C. Drivon to Jonathan M. Sherrell and Whitney Jackson Asevado, $475,000. NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: John E. Cavalero Jr. to Wilfred Omar Ortiz-Nazario, $179,000. NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: Brian S. Vincent and Kimberly L. Vincent to Gabriel A. Ribeiro and Elizabeth Ribeiro, $530,000. NORTH RIVER FOREST COUNTRY CLUB SUBDIVISION, PORTION OF GROUND: Frank J. Judice and Diane R. Judice to Anthony F. Judice, donation, no value stated. NORTHRIDGE DRIVE 212: Cala Investment Properties LLC to Rahtheos J. Neupauer and McKenzie Renea Pence, $235,000. OAK BRANCH DRIVE 420: Succession of Elizabeth J. Cameron Dominiguez to Danny J. Volion and Holly R. Volion, $250,000. PENN MILL LAKES BLVD. 330: Chris N. Papamichael and Lori W. Papamichael to Bordelon Properties 001 LLC, $249,000. RIVER ROAD 74516: Trevor Walker and Tanya Picou Faia Walker to Anthony J. Palazzo and Celia Jones Palazzo, $1,850,000. ROSALIE COURT 1845: DSLD

Homes LLC to Glynn Cambre Jr. and Kimberly Panks Cambre, $342,598. ROSEMARY DRIVE 7: Kevin P. Faucon to Lee W. Pierre and Ashu D. Pierre, $481,000. RUE CHANTILLY 225: Vernon C. Crespino and Patricia T. Crespino to Devon M. Daly and Denise L. Daly, $730,000. RUE DE FONTAIN 1541: GMI Construction Inc. to Joshua Cropp and Robin L. Cropp, $615,000. SAW GRASS LOOP 438: Presley E. Turner and Kelly E. Turner to Zachary C. Mangrum and Kristen Boudreaux, $595,000. SECOND ST. 70476: Blake A. Fabre and Brittany A. Fabre to Shalyn Kuhn, $215,000. SHADOW BEND DRIVE 21362: DSLD Homes LLC to Ira DeVillier, $308,425. SYCAMORE ST. 26: Nicholas E. Kurz to Rachel Jones Jack, donation, no value stated. TOWN OF COVINGTON, LOT10, SQUARE 2096: BAP Enterprises LLC to Willie Mae Bradford, $37,926. WASHINGTON AVE. 71475: Michael J. Gomez and Donna S. Gomez to Heath L. Hutchinson, $165,000. W. 22ND AVE. 500: Amanda J. Farris to Sharon A. Richards, Jason M. Trew and Jennifefr H. Trew, $343,000.

FOLSOM BRUHL ROAD 79468: Matthew D. Eady and Amanda L. Eady to William Craft and Lauren Craft, $121,500. CHENEL ST. 208: Nicholas P. Avart to Clifford A. Myers and Rhondalyn T. Myers, $305,000.

CROCKETT ROAD 77175: Succession of Edith Ducote Stumpf to Patrick D. Simmons Jr., $495,000. NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: Thomas M. Seeger to Christopher Charles Junot and Camille E. Seeger, donation, no value stated. STONELAKE DRIVE 13391: Mark Cheralla and Carmen H. Cheralla to Alan A. Aparicio and Shannon F. Aparicio, $566,500. TANTELA RANCH ROAD: Shirtrly Atchison to Kanyon M. McLean, $530,000.

LACOMBE BRAN DRIVE 30175: Kerry E. Mackenroth and Suzanne Mackenroth to Kerry Mackenroth and Suzanne Mackenroth family revocable trust, donation, no value stated. CORAL ST. 60487: NELA Real Estate LLC to Ray E. Hill, $216,000. CRESTLINE DRIVE 61183: Clayton R. Ricks Jr. to Steven C. Lassalle and Melissa M. Lassalle, $185,000. DURNIN DRIVE 59503: Vernon F. Seymour Jr., Charmaine P. Seymour and Lazy S. revocable living trust to Devin M. Justice and Tiffany R. Justice, $366,000. LACOMBE ACRES SUBDIVISION, LOTS 2, 3, 4, SQUARE 10: Embrace Home Loans Inc. to Anne W. Castjohn, $49,000. LACOMBE PARK SUBDIVISION, LOTS 9, 10, SQUARE 17: Evalyn Lewis Gibbs to Fran Broussard, donation, no value stated. NEAR LACOMBE, PORTION OF GROUND: Elena M. Schullin Delahoussaye, John E. Schulin III and Deborah Ann Schulin Scorsone to David M. Harper II, $50,000. NEAR LACOMBE, PORTION OF

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GROUND: Noblerod LLC to Bordelon Properties 001 LLC, $4,000. NEAR LACOMBE, PORTION OF GROUND: Cheri Ben-Iesau Thompson to Timothy J. Thompson, donation, no value stated. SHANNON DRIVE 31074: Daniel L. Clement to Monica Mims Burns, $204,000. U.S. 190 28072: ANISOPTERA LLC to Bordelon Properties 001 LLC, $75,000. U.S. 190 30568: Patrick H. Killeen to Patrick H. Killeen Family revocable trust, donation, no value stated.

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Elegant 2 Bed, 2.5 Baths, 2,639 Sqft, Corner Unit w/ Panoramic Views of French Quarter & Mississippi River & much more!

MADISONVILLE BEDICO CREEK SUBDIVISION, LOT 129: Santa Maria Interest LLC to Steven S. Shuttleworth and Robin S. Shuttleworth, $149,900. BLACK PINE COURT 1525: Jared J. Buhler and Cara L. Buhler to Filippo J. Costanzo and Alyssa G. Costanzo, $625,000. BON VILLAGE SUBDIVISION, UNIT 1, LOT 145: Roger Lamaster and Michelle Lamaster to Nathan Barth, $307,500. BRYANT ST. 106: Landry Family Builders LLC to Janae Jones, $249,900. CYPRESS CROSSING DRIVE 1121: Timothy P. Beattie and Elizabeth A. Beattie to Mark T. Cheralla and Carmen H. Cheralla, $455,000. ELMWOOD LOOP 35: Michael C. Dufour and Tiffany T. Dufour to Lillie Graves Lucius, $780,000. MOSS POINT LANE 3034: Miles A. Roppolo and Sadie Carr Roppolo to Robert Jung Jr. and Kirsten S. Jung, $383,000. N. BROWN THRASHER LOOP 609: Cody S. Binder to Nicholas Avart and Lillian M. Young Avart,

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$295,000. NIGHT HERON LANE 655: Alvarez Construction Co. LLC to Clayton S. Burke and Britttany L. Montalbano, $543,902. PINE ST. 1104: Jose L. Castro III to Erica Baham, $330,000. RAIFORD OAKS BLVD. 187: Lisa Foret Fabre and David Fabre Jr. to Kevin M. Smith and Christina B. Smith, $365,000. RUELLE COURT 524: Ross A. Plauche and Marie J. Luke Plauche to Mitchell P. Croatt and Jennifer L. Croatt, $505,000. SPIKE DRIVE 71752: DSLD Homes LLC to Shane Dalmado and Michelle Dalmado, $216,330. THREE RIVER HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, LOT 190: Chad A. Murphy and Mary B. Murphy to Mary Therese McFall, $199,000. TIMBERWOOD LOOP 620: Joshua R. Wooley and Elizabeth G. Wooley to Justin Guthrie and Kathryn Guthrie, $346,000.

MANDEVILLE ACADIAN LANE 138: James C. Carlton and Bevin Carlton to Cynthia Morrison Cheatwood, $650,000. BEAU CHENE DRIVE 912: Karen Ann Weiser Fransen to Conor Leon Gibson, $385,000. DEVON DRIVE 476: Emily Grayson Dejohn to Kyle A. Roblin and Jennifer Yeager Roblin, $385,000. HERON LANE 5: Joel M. Daste to James C. Carlton and Bevin Carlton, $1,175,000. MCDONALD ST. 2363: Ryan D. Ducote to Brian P. Bodenheimer Jr. and Leighana Marie St. Angelo, $245,000. MENUET ROAD 70360: Jacob B. Nickens and Lydia M. Nickens to Bryant J. Kintner and Laura S. Kintner, $245,000. NANCY ROAD 70234: Jack L. McGinnis and Zita C. McGinnis to Brian J. Martinell and Kathleen St. Romain Martinell, $80,000. ORLEANS ST. 1823: Darlene Bonner-King to Dustin A. Beck and Luu Anh A. Vo Beck, $220,000. PARC DU LAC SUBDIVISION, LOT 9: Victoria L. Williams to Steven E. Waldrop, donation, no value stated. RUE RENOIR 1205: Jane Marie Sigismondi Walls to Douglas Ferguson and Robyn Ferguson, $389,000. SANDRA DEL MAR 161: David B. O’Connell and Mary C. O’Connell to Cornerstone Homes 1 LLC, $82,000. SHAUNELL DRIVE 120: Jennifer Witherspoon Gregory to Sean P. Gilvey and Trevor J. Colbert,

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PEARL RIVER JENNIFER LANE 409: Karen F. Molinario and Paige M. Dover to Elizabeth Juneau, $245,000. N. SUMMERFIELD LOOP 336: Joseph R. Brewer to Anita Wilson, $381,000. NEAR PEARL RIVER, PORTION OF GROUND: Succession of Betty Whitehead Lea to Roxanne Cook Brown, $20,000. PATRICIA ST. 39085: Sharon P. Scott to Sharon P. Scott Living trust, donation, no value stated. PINE ST. 36373: Ryan V. Dreux and Stephanie D. Dreux to Seth Craddock and Allie Craddock, $330,000. SECOND ST. 232: Shane M. Schiro and Jamie N. Schiro to Stephen J. Grifﬁn and Brianna A.Grifﬁn, $229,000. TAYLOR FARMS ROAD 64316: DSLD Homes LLC to Daphine T. Hills, $315,597.

SIXTH WARD NEAR SIXTH WARD, PORTION OF GROUND: Mark & Kasey LLC to Gene S. Groce and Marcelle S. Groce, $135,000.

SLIDELL AIRE COURT 433: David J. Bertucci and Julie M. Bertucci to Leigh R. Brown, $426,000. ALMONASTER ST. 56424: Succession of Troy J. Weixel to Honore Calera and Melina G. Calera, $33,000. AUDUBON DRIVE 214: Ryan Louisiana Trust to Robert Wesley Johnson Sr. and Mickey B. Johnson, $176,000. BIRDIE DRIVE 70: Jay J. Schmitt to C&C Factory LLC, $59,800. BLACKFIN COVE 200, UNIT 4: Katelyn M. Zeringue to Gary J. Zeringue, donation, no value stated. BLUEBIRD ST. 2107: Jesse Taylor to Joshua Halbrook and Alexis Howard, $210,000. CANAL BANK DRIVE 3801: Garrett M. Logan and Sophia E. Logan to Gretchen K. Brocksmith, $300,000.

CARA MAE ST. 40742: D. R. Horton Inc. to Madison L. Wilford, $275,900. CELESTE CIRCLE 113: Penny A. Sylvera, Chad N. Sylvera and Julie A. Sylvera to Shelby T. Ridgell and Breanna N. Ridgell, $187,000. COUNTRY CLUB BLVD. 214: James C. Parker Jr. and succession of Verna L. Casanova Parker to Leann Dean, $190,000. CROSS GATES BLVD. 225: Carlos V. Castillo and Ronda F. Castillo to Winfred W. Morris Jr. and Damika J. Morris, $260,000. CYPRESS AVE. 57279: Succession of Hughette E. Buras to Dondrell D. Wells, $140,000. CYPRESS VINE COURT 6533: D. R. Horton Inc. Gulf Coast to Wayne Labney Jr., $185,765. DARCY LANE 118: Michael A. Story to Eric Garfein, $305,900. DORSET DRIVE 327: Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Rachel Diaz, $125,000. DRURY LANE 324: Wendell Joseph Johnson Jr. and Keyona Tassin Johnson to RJR Home Renovations LLC, $107,500. EASTWOOD DRIVE 1648: Hugo Crus to Maria L. Sorto, $120,000. GAYOSO ST. 37622: Wayne J. Breland to John V LLC, $88,500. INDIAN MOUND LANE 140: Joseph A. Ponson Jr. to Barbara B. Ponson, donation, no value stated. LA. 433 33494: Kevin R. Havard and Jennifer L. Havard to Brett M. Dimarco and Evelyn G. Dimarco, $215,000. LARCHWOOD DRIVE 128: Stephen A. Joseph to Carlos A. Artiaga and Jennifer L. Artiaga, $240,000. LEGENDRE DRIVE 518: Jennifer A. Tussey Guerra to Vincent Troia, $306,000.

LYNN ROAD 58420: Hip Flips LLC to Neely Cox, $130,000. MARAIS RIVER DRIVE 4636: D.R. Horton Inc. to Michael A. Thomas, $241,900. MARAIS RIVER DRIVE 4671: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Katrina M. Reese and Shedrick B. Charles Jr., $234,900. MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD. 1415: Mardetra D. Harris to East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity, $106,000. N. CALEB DRIVE 526: Shawn W. Torres and Shannon B. Torres to Decatur J. Durel and Ashley E. Loga, $890,000. NATALIE COURT 1004, 1008: Great Opportunities LLC to Dwight P. Collins and Cassandra D. Collins, $55,000. NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Bonita G. Bihr and Dilya M. Bihr to Equity Trust Co., $3,000. OLIVE DRIVE 441: Lewis Fortenberry and Patsy C. Fortenberry Estate to Bryan K. Woolley, $115,000. OZONE WOODS SUBDIVISION, LOT 5, SQUARE 58: Joshua D. Fayard and Kelsey H. Jones Fayard to Catherine R. Paille, $195,000. PEBBLE BEACH DRIVE 176: Thomas Williams and Michele L. Williams to Edgar Lombard, $290,000. PONTCHARTRAIN DRIVE 4854, UNIT 5: Patricia Haggerty Jung to Daniel R. Haggerty, donation, no value stated. REDWOOD CIRCLE 1505: Succession of Charles F. Walker Sr. and Daisy B. Walker to Thuy Thi Pham, $68,000. ROBERT BOULEVARD, PORTION OF GROUND: Sabrina S. Sanderson, Summer Sanderson, Miranda Sanderson and Madison

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Stockstill to Robert Waldo and Terry W. Waldo, $125,000. S. HARRISON ROAD 57349: Marion V. Bozman to Cynthia H. Bozman, donation, no value stated. ST. TAMMANY AVE. 1049: Laura Newton Jones, Sophie N. Beane and Annette N. Baldwin to Natalie Newton Sturgis, donation, no value stated. SUNSET DRIVE 1436: Rycar Enterprises LLC to Lawrence G. O’Neal and Rebertha C. O’Neal, $194,000. TIFFANY ST. 317: Steven L. Maples to Enrique Cabrera, $149,900. TULIP ST. 307: Valley Strong Credit Union to Jesus Lopez Lujan, $39,900. TUPELO LANE 34025: Sara Ellen Walker Bible to William H. Walker, donation, no value stated. W. LAKE CATAHOULA COURT 412: Mark Haab and Denise Haab to Austin T. Sexton and Sydney L.

Sexton, $262,500. W. PINEWOOD DRIVE 113: Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Frank Luque and Angela Luque, $200,020. W. QUEENS DRIVE 221: Keith L. Hyde and Carla L. Hyde to Samuel W. Hardy, $199,000. WHISPERWOOD ESTATES, UNIT 3, LOT 140: Neisha Raphael to Steven Stimens, donation, no value stated.

SUN/BUSH LA. 40 20542: Ronald Finch to Will T. Jourdan II, $320,000. NEAR SUN, PORTION OF GROUND: Ellen E. Eagan-McNeill and Robert L. McNeill to Glen C. Ortego, $20,000. NEAR SUN, PORTION OF GROUND: Dragonﬂy Enterprises Inc. to Jeffery L. Bolton, $15,000.

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308 ITALIAN ISLE ROAD $2,850,000

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5 Beds / 5.5 Baths / 4,065 Sq.Ft. w/ 2,685 Sq. Ft. underneath for entertaining! The 1st on Sand Beach Home in Biloxi! PGT hurricane-resistant windows & doors w/ impact glass & Gold Fortified rating. Engineered wood floors, custom cabinets, ceramic-tiled bathrooms & showers, glass railings, high ceilings 8’ doors & 12’ ceilings on 1st floor. Elevator & pool options.

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414 GENERAL PERSHING AVENUE $1,178,000

1908 COURTNEY LANE $975,000

200 BROADWAY, STE 142 • NEW ORLEANS, LA

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Old garden favorite althea is worth revisiting By LSU AgCenter Whether a song, a movie, a family recipe or a pair of broken-in blue jeans, old favorites are hard to beat. New things come along and distract us from these dependable standbys — but somehow, we always ﬁnd our way back to their familiar comfort. In the garden, an old favorite that’s worth revisiting is althea (Hibiscus syriacus), which you may know as rose of Sharon. This ﬂowering shrub, a native of Asia, was brought to the American colonies in the 1700s. It gained popularity quickly, becoming a bestseller in early nursery catalogs and remaining a landscape staple well into the 20th century. This was especially true in the South, where gardeners prized its ability to bloom profusely even in the heat of summer. Unlike many of the 300plus Hibiscus species grown around the world, althea is not tropical. It’s a temperate, deciduous shrub that handles both our intense summers and typical winters with grace. Althea naturally grows as a multitrunked shrub, although some people train it to be a single-trunked tree. It works well as a specimen plant or a hedge. It reaches 8 to 10 feet

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Althea blooms are attractive to pollinators and last throughout summer.

tall, sometimes more, and up to 6 feet wide. Pollinators love althea’s pretty flowers, which bloom from May until August or early September. In true Hibiscus fashion, the flowers are short-lived, lasting just a day or two. But new buds appear throughout the summer. Different cultivars offer single blooms as well as semidouble and double forms that have a ruffled appearance. Colors range from white, pink and purple to red and even bluish tones, sometimes with

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White Pillar hibiscus has a narrow, columnar shape that works well in tight spaces or as a hedge. pink or red veins and throats. Small, toothed leaves provide a dark green contrast during the growing season before falling in the cooler months. Traditional althea varieties readily self-seed and can spread like weeds. But modern cultivars are sterile,

meaning they don’t produce seed. One such cultivar is Aphrodite, a product of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s althea breeding program from the 1970s and ’80s. A 1988 release, Aphrodite — with its pink petals and red

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Struggling with changes to the old ways Dear Annie: I know I am stuck in the “old ways,” but I am trying to adapt to changing times. It is becoming very common for couples to live together before marriage. Annie While I have Lane come to accept DEAR ANNIE traditional and extravagant weddings as an occasion to ﬁnally declare their commitment before church and family, what I still struggle with are the bridal showers. This tradition is to gift the bride (and groom) with the necessities to set up their home as they begin their married life together. Many couples

now have lived together for years in a furnished home. I doubt they are living without dishes, pots, towels, an iron, toaster or bedsheets! Why, just because they decide to marry, do they think they should be showered with everything new? I sit in shock as brides open all those gifts that I know they must already have. One bride even said that since she had most everything, all the new gifts would be put away until she and her husband have a new home someday. Really? I’m to furnish her future home?! If times have changed, maybe traditions should, too: Cancel the bridal shower if the couple has already set up house. — Like the Old Ways Better

Dear Like The Old Ways Better: I love the old ways as well. But I’m not so sure that the old ways were all that different. Whether people are living together or not, they still would appreciate an upgrade from their used pots, pans, dishes, glasses and sheets. After the wedding ceremony, they will be living together as a married couple, and that is something that should be celebrated! Worry less about what is in the couple’s cupboard and more about what is in the couple’s heart. Wish them a very long and happy marriage and give them a gift that they will appreciate together as they enter this new and sacred phase of life.

Dear Annie: I have been talking to a guy overseas who says he’s in the military. However, I think he is sort of starting to be a scammer. Over the past few months, he has been asking for iTunes and Amazon gift cards. Now he wants me to open up a bank account online in my name, claiming that his colleague will be the one to add the money to the account. He keeps pressing me to give him my information, such as my online username, password and Social Security number. I feel reluctant to do this. What should I do? — Feeling Uncomfortable Dear Feeling Uncomfortable: Heed your feelings. This guy isn’t just “starting to be a scammer”; he’s been a scammer all

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than ﬁve decades of public service. Today’s birthdays: Author Annie Proulx is 91. Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 87. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 85. Writer-producer David Chase is 81. International Swimming Hall of Famer Diana Nyad is 77. Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor is 70. Rock guitarist Vernon Reid is 68. Country

singer Collin Raye is 66. Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears For Fears) is 65. Singer Tori Amos is 63. International Tennis Hall of Famer Mats Wilander is 62. Rapper GZA/ The Genius is 60. Actor Ty Burrell is 59. Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is 56. Actor Rick Yune is 55. Comedianactor Kristen Wiig is 53. Pop singer Dua Lipa is 31. Actor Raphael Alejandro is 19.

along. Don’t let him prey on you any longer. Take screenshots of his messages for your records and write down any other information you have on him; then block him on all messaging platforms. Don’t tell him you’re doing so, as he’ll just try wiggling his way back into your heart. Then report him to the Federal Trade Commission (ftccomplaintassistant.gov), and check out the FTC’s blog post titled “Has an online love interest asked you for money?” You might recognize some uncanny similarities to your experience.

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2026. There are 131 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 22, 1851, the schooner America outraced more than a dozen British vessels off the English coast to win a trophy that came to be known as the America’s Cup. Also on this date: In 1791, the Haitian Revolution began as enslaved people of Saint-Domingue rose up against French colonizers. In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese control until the end of World War II. In 1922, Irish revolutionary Michael Collins was shot to death, apparently by Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty that Collins had cosigned. In 1965, a 14-minute brawl ensued between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers after Giants pitcher Juan Marichal struck Dodgers catcher John Roseboro in the head with a baseball bat.

(Marichal and Roseboro would later reconcile and become lifelong friends.) In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the ﬁrst papal visit to South America. In 1972, John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile took seven employees hostage at a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn, New York, during a botched robbery; the siege, which ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and Naturile’s killing by the FBI, inspired the 1975 movie “Dog Day Afternoon.” In 1989, Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, California. In 1992, on the second day of the Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho, an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver, the wife of White separatist Randy Weaver. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform legislation that ended guaranteed cash payments to the poor and demanded work from recipients. In 2003, Alabama’s chief justice, Roy Moore, was sus-

pended for his refusal to obey a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of his courthouse. In 2007, a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard. In 2016, a bomb attack targeting an outdoor wedding party in Turkey killed at least 30 people and wounded 94 others. The attack came as the country was still reeling from a failed coup attempt weeks earlier. In 2022, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States’ top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced he would be leaving the federal government in December after more

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