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City-parish grapples with rising employee rates BY PATRICK SLOAN-TURNER Staff writer

year was when voters both statewide and in East Baton Rouge Parish rejected an amendment to form a new public school district in St. George. The school district was part of St. George supporters’ yearslong push for incorporation, which culminated in a 2019 vote and a protracted legal battle ending with a 2024 Louisiana Supreme Court decision that launched the city. “The path toward a separate school district didn’t go as originally

A measure that would significantly increase insurance costs for city-parish employees was delayed without a decision Wednesday, as the mayor-president and Metro Council grapple with ways to deal with rising rates. At a full meeting with dozens of firefighter union members and other city-parish employees in attendance, the council opted to defer a vote on a measure brought by Mayor-President Sid Edwards that would force employees to switch to narrower insurance plans or accept major price hikes to stay on their current one. With the measure unlikely to have enough votes to pass, it was Edwards deferred without a public hearing. Under the mayor’s proposal, which would impact about 4,000 employees, cityparish workers could pay 20% more for insurance each twice-monthly paycheck and stay on their current plan, or they could choose to pay 25% less and move to a new HMO with a much narrower network of care providers. Employees’ deductibles would also increase by 80% if they stay on their same plan. For some employees at the lower end of pay scales in the city-parish, the increased insurance cost would significantly eat into the 3% raises Edwards championed for employees in May. If single city-parish employees want to stay on their current plan, costs per paycheck would increase between $11 and $20. Employees with families who are also on the plan would see their costs per paycheck increase

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St. George Mayor Dustin Yates delivers his first State of the City address on Wednesday. BY CLAIRE GRUNEWALD Staff writer

From celebrating a new charter school initiative to completing thousands of public works requests, St. George Mayor Dustin Yates highlighted the young city’s progress Wednesday in his ﬁrst State of the City address. In a speech at White Oak Estate and Gardens, Yates touted his administration’s accomplishments as the city found its footing, including expanding recreation options

and securing $19 million in federal funding for Siegen Lane. But he also emphasized that the municipality still has work ahead, like improving infrastructure and creating a development plan to responsibly prepare for future growth. “The founders of St. George gave us an extraordinary opportunity. They worked to make St. George a city. Our responsibility is to make them proud of the city we’re building,” Yates said. In his 21-minute speech, the mayor said the city’s biggest setback of the

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Clinton cancels 2027 Mardi Gras parade

getting hurt.” Shooting at this year’s event injured multiple people somebody The town does not sponsor or host

BY BLAKE LESCHBER Staff writer

The annual Mardi Gras parade in Clinton will not return in 2027, as Mayor Mark Kemp said Tuesday that the city will not issue a permit to parade organizers. Kemp said the decision is based on the safety of residents, citing the Jan. 31 shooting that left a woman paralyzed and injured at least four others, including a 6-year-old girl. “When this parade started 20-something years ago, things were different then. People were not packing

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pistols freely,” Kemp said. “Times have changed, so we have to make a change. Although you want people to have a good time, we cannot protect everybody.” Kemp said he thinks the parade has outgrown the town. Clinton’s population is less than 1,500, but the parade would attract crowds from surrounding areas. “The people who promote the parade have done a very nice job with their promotion of the parade, and it has grown immensely,” Kemp said. “It’s just not a good time to be having another parade and taking the chance of

the parade, Kemp said. The organizers must get a permit from the town and pay for police ofﬁcers to provide security. Clinton ofﬁcials will decide year by year whether the parade will happen in 2028 and beyond, Kemp said, but it will not happen next year. In a statement, the Feliciana Family & Friends Mardi Gras Parade Committee said it will return in the near future and will continue fundraising and hosting other events. “We have two years to get the right

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

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

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

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

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

Pope recovering well after cancer surgery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

will determine control of the House and the Senate was swiftly condemned by Democrats, who accused the administration of targeting the Democrat for political purposes. Omar, in a statement on X, called the search an “attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.” “For 10 years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation,” she said. “I will not be silenced.” A phone message seeking comment was left Wednesday with a representative for Omar. Though the Republican focus on Omar’s background dates back years, the search notably took place three weeks before the November midterms, in which Omar is seeking reelection. The Justice Department has historically sought to avoid public investigative actions involving a candidate within 60 days of a primary or general election. Omar, who was first elected to the House in 2018, represents Minnesota’s 5th District, including Minneapolis.

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

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President Donald Trump arrives Wednesday on Air Force One at Laughlin Bullhead International Airport for a campaign rally in Bullhead, Ariz. Monday. The visits come as the Republican president works to bolster his party in Nov. 3 elections that will determine control of Congress. In Arizona, soaring music played as the former Qatari jet flew low over the local airport where supporters awaited Trump in the heat. The president, wear-

ing his signature red baseball cap, emerged with a wave and a ﬁst bump and slowly descended the stairs as speakers blasted Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” the song that marks Trump’s entrance at campaign events. Air Force One, now wearing Trump’s new red, white, blue and

gold paint scheme, and the Black Mountains ﬁlled the background as he started speaking. Mohave County, where Bullhead City is located, has higher poverty and unemployment rates than the state and nation, with a lower percapita income, according to Census and state unemployment data. Trump also spoke extensively

about his aesthetic flourishes around Washington: the White House ballroom that is under construction and a just-completed helipad on the South Lawn, along with a triumphal arch he has planned for the capital city. “The fake news media doesn’t talk about how well we’re doing” as a country, Trump said. Journalists ask him instead about “affordability,” he said, pronouncing the word in a dismissive tone. Trump traveled to Arizona to rally support for Rep. Andy Biggs, who is seeking to defeat Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. Republicans running in the state’s two competitive U.S. House districts, Jay Feely and Rep. Juan Ciscomani, did not attend the event. Afterward, Trump was heading to Western Montana’s 1st District to try to boost Aaron Flint, a former aide to retiring Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke, who was interior secretary in Trump’s first-term Cabinet. Trump has kept up a brisk pace of hour-plus-long rallies — new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia called it a “midterm blitz” — in his effort to stem expected Republican losses and ﬁght a historical trend in which the president’s party typically loses seats in elections halfway through their term in the White House. Arizona stands out as the lone swing state among the president’s recent stops, though the airport rally was in a county Trump won with 78% of the vote in 2024.

Questions swirl about new White House press secretary’s resume BY JILL COLVIN

max. But so far, she and the White House have offered no evidence that she passed the NEW YORK — The new White House bar exam in any press secretary is facing mounting state or in China, questions about her background and where she worked resume as she transitions into her for a large law ﬁrm role as the public face of the Trump years ago. administration. The questions Katie Zacharia has long de- add to the confuscribed herself as a lawyer as she sion surrounding Zacharia has worked to establish herself as President Donald a commentator for conservative Trump’s decision to hire Zacharia, outlets like Fox News and News- who had worked for his social meAssociated Press

dia company for only a few months when he announced her appointment and whose debut at the podium Tuesday has been widely panned. Afterward, the president was asked by reporters where Zacharia had passed the bar exam, following a report by the independent outlet Popular Information that she did not appear to be licensed in any state. Trump stepped aside to allow Zacharia to answer. “When I moved to China,” she responded over the sound of Marine

One whirring in the background. It is not clear what she had intended to say or whether she had finished the sentence. China’s notoriously difficult National Unified Legal Professional Qualification Examination can only be taken by Chinese citizens. Asked what credentials she held, the White House passed along a statement from Zacharia, who received a bachelor of arts degree from Pepperdine University in 2007 and received her law degree from

Pepperdine Caruso School of Law in 2011, according to the school and her LinkedIn bio. “I practiced international transaction law, with all the appropriate credentials,” it read. Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, added that Zacharia was “uniquely qualiﬁed and whip smart to help inform the American people about all the great things President Trump and his Administration have been doing, and she will do an incredible job as press secretary.”

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