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BR council eyes blight program changes debated amid criminal corruption case

BY PATRICK SLOAN-TURNER Staff writer

Baton Rouge ofﬁcials are weighing changes to a part of the city-parish’s blight eradication effort that have support from many Metro Council members but also have drawn scrutiny amid an ongoing criminal case involving it. The city-parish’s development director is proposing a new option that would employ new technology to help identify rundown homes, buildings and other properties the city-parish needs to address. Much of that work is now done by “outreach” contractors.

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Term limits for governors on ballot Amendment sets permanent maximum of two terms

BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN Staff writer

When Louisianans head to the polls for early voting on Tuesday, they will decide whether to bar Louisiana governors from ever serving more than two terms. Currently, governors cannot serve more than two conH H H H H H secutive terms — but after spending time out of ofﬁce, they can run again. The lifetime limit would be implemented if more than 50% of voters approve Amendment 4, one of 10 proposed changes to the state constitution that will be decided next month. Proponents of the measure say it would help

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Teen who killed 4 at Oregon school was former student, police say BY HAVEN DALEY and SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press

BEND, Ore. — A teacher threw her phone at the teenage gunman who killed four people at an Oregon

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elementary school, then tackled and fought with him — likely saving lives before he was shot by a father who followed him into the building, police said Friday. City of Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz called the teacher’s actions

“heroic” during a news conference and said she was not injured. He identiﬁed the attacker as 16-yearold Grifﬁn J. John II and said all of the victims were shot in the same classroom. Authorities said John had been

a special needs student at Silver “Everyone wants to know why, Rail Elementary and had attacked including us,” he said. “We may a classroom with special needs stu- never get that full answer, but we dents. He ﬁred as many as 15 shots want it.” The police chief added that pofrom a 12-gauge shotgun and had about 44 rounds remaining when ä See SCHOOL, page 4A he was killed, Krantz said.

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2 missiles strike airport in Yemen, officials say

ADEN, Yemen — Two missiles struck the airport in Yemen’s port city of Aden on Friday night, police said, blaming Iran-backed Houthi rebels for the second such attack on the airport in less than 10 days. Police said no casualties were reported as fighting escalates in the latest front in the Iran war, one in which the rebels have attacked both neighboring Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s internationally recognized government, which is backed by the kingdom. It was the second major attack in Aden in two days. The Houthis on Thursday killed at least five people in a strike on a palace complex in Aden, the seat of the government. An unnamed military official with the rebels told the Houthicontrolled Saba news agency that the group hit a military facility adjacent to the airport that houses a command center for the Saudi-led forces fighting the rebels, as well as a weapons depot there. The Houthis previously targeted the airport with two missiles on Oct. 7, with no casualties, officials said. This time, the Yemen government’s information minister said the missiles fell about 500 yards away from an airplane operated by Yemenia Airways as it was preparing to take off. A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said its passengers were quickly evacuated.

Trudy weakens to Category 1 hurricane

MIAMI — Trudy weakened Friday afternoon in its slow movement towards west-central areas of Mexico’s Paciﬁc coast, although some strengthening could occur through Saturday, forecasters said. It had been reported as Category 3 early Friday, but the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said satellite wind data showed it was weaker than indicated and reports from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft showed that Trudy has weakened to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 85 mph by Friday afternoon. Trudy was about 225 miles southwest of Acapulco, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, and about 325 miles south-southeast of Manzanillo, Colima state, while moving northwest slightly slower, at 5 mph, the center said. A hurricane warning was in effect for Mexico’s coast from Manzanillo, in Colima state, northward to Playa Perula, in Jalisco. Forecasters said it is expected to move slightly faster during the next few days.

Norwegian teen gets 20 years in murder plot

LONDON — A Norwegian teenager convicted of traveling to Britain to carry out a contract killing on behalf of an international crime gang linked to Iran was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, was found guilty in July of conspiracy to murder for agreeing to shoot an unknown target for $28,000 last year. He was arrested at a hotel in Huddersfield in northern England with two guns and ammunition two days after arriving in the U.K. Natland admitted to possessing the ﬁrearms and ammunition, but said that he didn’t want to go through with the plan. Natland, who was working part time at a pizza restaurant at the time of his arrest, was recruited by a Swedish organized crime group known as the Foxtrot Network while he was playing a game online. The group has links to the Iranian government, according to counterterrorism ofﬁcers from London’s Metropolitan Police. Natland was hired by a 17-yearold known as “Generalen.” A court in Norway convicted the teenager last year of attempting to “contribute to murder” and sentenced him to 14 years in custody. Three more people have been charged by Norwegian police, with a decision yet to be made by prosecutors whether to indict them.

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LOS ANGELES — Sixteen people were rescued from the Pacific Ocean off Mexico’s Baja California coast on Friday after the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a mayday call reporting the vessel was sinking. Another 11 people were believed missing. The boat’s origin, destination and what it was doing were not clear. It went down in an area frequented by smugglers transporting migrants to the U.S., but which is also popular with fishing and leisure boats. One rescued person was being treated for a suspected shark bite and two people were in critical condition, authorities said. By the time crews reached the area “people were holding onto each other, to debris, just treading and trying to stay above water before being rescued,” Coast Guard Lt. Santiago Tamburini said. No vessel, only debris, was found and it was unclear what type of boat was involved, the Coast Guard in San Diego said. It received reports of 27 people in the water approximately 140 miles west of Ensenada, Mexico, after getting the distress call at about 1 a.m. Friday. “Boats in that area can be for fishing, leisure, personal recreation. We just don’t know what they were doing out there. We all know it’s a suspected smuggling route,” Tamburini said. “The sea is unforgiving” in that area, he added, and it was unclear if the vessel got lost, had engine failure, was swept out to sea or meant to go that far.

people had been on board, Petty Officer Chris Sappey said. Two of the people rescued were Mexican nationals, the Coast Guard said in a statement. Those rescued were flown by helicopter to San Diego and transported to hospitals. Three were taken to Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, including the person with a suspected shark bite and two people treated for cold exposure, said hospital spokesperson Janice Collins. Three others were evaluated at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and later discharged, said Steve Carpowich, a Scripps Health spokesperson. Two patients were in critical condition, said Matt Hoffman, a spokesperson for the city of San Diego. It was not clear if that included the suspected shark bite victim or the two people with cold exposure. The Coast Guard and U.S. Navy were searching the area with two helicopters, a fixed-wing plane, a cutter and a Navy combat ship. The Mexican Navy also launched a search and rescue operation from Ensenada, which is about 80 miles south of San Diego by road. Conditions on the water at 1 a.m. Friday appeared to be windy but fairly typical for the area, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Jonathan Suk in San Diego. Winds out of the north and northwest measured about 10 knots and waves measured 5 feet at a buoy north of Ensenada, he said. “I wouldn’t want to be out there in a sea kayak,” Suk said. “For the vessels that usually operate out there, they’re usually built to handle things like that.”

Combs moved to new prison after reports of luxury lifestyle in prison hip-hop mogul convicted on prostitution-related charges BY MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been moved to a federal prison in Pennsylvania after reports that the hip-hop mogul was living the high life and was injured in a fight at his New Jersey lockup, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday. The federal Bureau of Prisons is transferring Combs, 56, from FCI Fort Dix to FCI Allenwood Low, a low-security facility south of Williamsport and about 155 miles west of New York City, the person said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and Combs did so on condition of anonymity. The Bureau of Prisons confirmed the move but provided no further details. The agency said it does not discuss conditions of confinement for anyone in its custody, including reasons for transfer, for privacy, safety, and security reasons. “Decisions about inmate placement are made by the BOP, and we are not in a position to speak to the circumstances surrounding this transfer,” said Combs’ spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer. “Sean remains focused on moving forward, and we hope that his time at the new facility will be productive and without unnecessary disruption.” Combs is serving a four-year, two-

month sentence for his conviction last year on prostitution-related charges for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters. The case featured harrowing testimony about violence and sex parties he called “freak-offs.” It was a forceful reckoning for one of music and entertainment’s most influential figures. Last month, NBC News reported that Combs was continuing to enjoy aspects of his millionaire lifestyle at FCI Fort Dix, smuggling in Hennessy, having fellow inmates cook, clean, make his bed and give him massages, and using a contraband cellphone to view social media and an ex-girlfriend’s nude selfies. On Wednesday, TMZ reported that Combs was injured in a fight with another inmate at Fort Dix and had to be taken out of the prison for treatment. In a rare rebuttal, the Bureau of Prisons refuted TMZ’s report, telling the AP: “The story you are referring to is false and did not happen.” In the wake of the NBC report, Combs was placed in the prison’s special housing unit, a heavily secured part of the facility away from the general population, for inmates with disciplinary issues or security concerns. He has also been docked 41 days of good-conduct credit, pushing his release date back to March 2, 2028, according to the person familiar with the matter. In April, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in Combs’ bid to overturn his conviction and sentence, which his lawyers argued was too harsh. The court has yet to rule.

MABLETON, Ga. — Six Flags Over Georgia opened its gates Friday evening for the ﬁrst time since a man fell to his death from one of the amusement park’s towering roller coasters. A steady trickle of vehicles drove into the park, some of which had lined up outside about an hour before opening. Most of the visitors said they hadn’t thought about canceling their plans after Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-yearold school employee from Atlanta, was thrown from the Goliath coaster on Monday. “We didn’t plan on riding that speciﬁc ride,” said Alayna Bruce, who was visiting the park with family. “Hopefully, we can enjoy all the other stuff they have.” Eleanor Adcock, of Griffin, Georgia, said she had second thoughts after hearing about what happened and said she probably wouldn’t be riding any roller coasters. But she said she still looked forward to the park’s Halloween-themed Fright Fest attractions of haunted houses and mazes. “Honestly, I wouldn’t let an incident like this like scare everybody out of just going out and enjoying yourself,” she said. “But it’s still very alarming.” Authorities are investigating what led to Kariem’s fall. The park was already scheduled to be closed Tuesday through Thursday. It reopened as scheduled Friday evening, though Goliath was not expected to be running. Witnesses described seeing Kariem ejected from the coaster, and some people who rode the Goliath before him that day said they had concerns about its restraints. Six Flags Over Georgia’s park president, Richard Pretlow, issued a statement Friday afternoon thanking patrons for their support, offering condolences to Kariem’s family and reiterating the park’s commitment to safety.

“While serious incidents of this nature are exceedingly rare, we never take responsibility to our guests for granted and remain committed to continuously strengthening our operations and safety practices,” Pretlow said. Local officials in Cobb County, where Six Flags is located, declined to discuss any investigative findings during a news conference Friday. Assistant Police Chief Damon Ballard said county police plan to wait for state investigators to determine what went wrong before deciding whether criminal charges are warranted. Cobb County’s elected commission chairperson, Lisa Cupid, was asked what she might say to reassure patrons that Six Flags is safe. She said people should “use their judgment.” The Georgia coaster passed its latest annual state inspection in March with no safety violations found, according to an Associated Press review of documents obtained from the Georgia agency that inspects amusement park rides. Inspections from 2016 to 2021 found a total of 18 safety violations related to the ride that included corrosion on welds, loose handrails in the waiting area and maintenance needed on grout and padding around the ride’s support structure. Inspectors said Six Flags corrected each violation within days. None of the problems appeared to involve the ride’s restraints. At least 11 roller coasters in the U.S. and Canada — including the ride on which Kariem died — have been temporarily closed. They were all manufactured by the same company and equipped with similar restraints. Online photos and videos of the coasters show each equipped with clamshell restraints, which are mounted in front of each seat on a vertical bar that sits between the rider’s knees. The bar locks the padded restraint into place over the rider’s lap and upper legs.

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Trump puts Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold President says waiver is in U.S. national interest

BY WILL WEISSERT and MEG KINNARD Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause

was in the national interest. Trump had signed the legislation last month. Named after late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the measure had sought to clamp down more quickly on the ﬂow of ﬁnancial resources fueling the war against Ukraine. The move comes a week after Trump stunningly said the U.S. had agreed to purchase diesel from Russia to try and bring down global energy prices, despite that potentially hurting Ukraine

in its war with Russia. The Trump administration has remained mostly quiet since the recent passage of the bill with large bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate after Graham’s sudden death — with lawmakers urged ahead by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump’s latest action followed the president announcing on social media last week that he had reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call

in which he was expected to discuss a suspected case of plague in Russia. Instead, Trump announced that Russia will immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, followed by an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons “immediately thereafter.” Russia will deliver an additional 3 million tons “within a short period of time” after that, he wrote. The measure also had become a campaign centerpiece for Sen. Darline

president’s purview as to how he implemented it. “It gives the president tools that he can use if he so chooses, to end the war through economic sanctions,” Graham said Sunday during a debate in Columbia. “So that’s up to him as to whether or not he wants to use it, or whether he wants to use something else, but I think the purpose of it is to bring down the gas prices and ultimately end the war. And when the war ends, gas prices will fall.”

Graham, the late senator’s sister appointed to serve out the remaining months in his current term, who is also running to replace him in the Senate more permanently. In a debate earlier this week with Democratic nominee Annie Andrews, Graham — who has Trump’s endorsement and is expected to campaign with him in South Carolina next week — said she had been “so proud” to help get the measure passed but acknowledged it was the

Fight over evidence in Alex Murdaugh retrial turns to DNA BY JEFFREY COLLINS

not turn the trial into a circus, after barbed comments like “facts matter” and “glad to hear it.” “Y’all need to stop this, OK?” McCaslin said. “I don’t

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LEXINGTON, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh’s defense can do their own tests of unidentified DNA found under his wife’s fingernails after she and her son were shot to death in 2021, a judge said Friday, part of an increasingly bitter battle over what evidence can be used in his murder retrial next year. The DNA belonged to a male who was not a member of the Murdaugh family, and investigators haven’t found a match. Although this piece of DNA evidence didn’t feature prominently in the first trial in 2023, the defense wants to test it themselves at a private lab. The judge called Friday’s hearing after Murdaugh’s lawyers filed a flurry of motions saying prosecutors were dragging their feet sharing evidence. Murdaugh, a once-rich and imposing heir to a Southern legal dynasty, is scheduled to face another jury in April over the killings of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, on their sprawling property in the rural Lowcountry region of South Carolina. While admitting he is a thief, insurance cheat,

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Prosecuting attorney creighton Waters, left, and defense attorney Dick harpootlian speak Friday during an evidentiary hearing over a retrial of Alex Murdaugh for the murder of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, at the Lexington county Judicial center in Lexington, S.c. bad lawyer and longtime opioid addict, the 58-year-old Murdaugh has adamantly denied the killings. The state Supreme Court overturned his convictions earlier this year, ruling that a court clerk inﬂuenced jurors during his trial. The case has captivated the true crime world with its mix of treachery, corruption, power and Southern accents. Judge Debra McCaslin refused to let the defense examine every casing and bullet found in shootings for the past ﬁve years in eight sur-

rounding counties involving the same type of gun as one of the weapons used in the killings. The judge called it a ﬁshing expedition. “If there’s any casings that come through that’s going to match this crime, red ﬂags are going up,” McCaslin said of testing the state has done on all the evidence. “Bells are going to ring and you’re going to know something is going on, and none of that has happened.” The judge ended Friday’s hearing by admonishing both sides to be professional and

Source: White House press secretary Zacharia leaving job BY WILL WEISSERT, SEUNG MIN KIM and MICHELLE L. PRICE

want this tit for tat between y’all. Y’all are lawyers — you’re professionals. This is a court. This isn’t a sound bite.” Regardless of what happens in his next murder tri-

porters that he would have a discussion with her following his weekend travel — and that if he were her, Associated Press he would reconsider the job. Zacharia had come under WASHINGTON — Katie Zacharia is departing as White immediate scrutiny when House press secretary, a she appeared uncomfortperson familiar with the able during her inaugural matter said Friday, after a briefing on Tuesday, delivershort and rocky tening halting remarks touting the president ure that was defined and his accomplishby questions about her professional ments. Her 14-minbackground and lack ute briefing was folof polish in fielding lowed by criticism questions from jourthat the conservanalists. tive commentator The person, grant- Zacharia had long called hered anonymity to self a lawyer when discuss a personnel she had not passed a decision not yet made pub- bar exam nor was otherwise lic, said Zacharia would be credentialed to practice. Zacharia was a surprise transitioning out of the role. The shift comes after Presi- choice when Trump andent Donald Trump cast sig- nounced her appointment nificant doubt on her future on Oct. 9, as the successor to earlier Friday, telling re- Karoline Leavitt, the young-

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called for help. A second driver, a 36-year-old man whose children attend Silver Rail, saw John shooting at the truck and heading toward the school. He pulled into the parking lot, grabbed his .40-caliber pistol and followed the attacker inside. He saw John wrestling with the teacher and shot him several times, Krantz said. Police found John dead in the

school minutes after the ﬁrst calls for help, Krantz said. John shot through locked doors to get inside, police said. The children who were killed were ages 5, 8 and 11, Krantz said. Three children ages 5, 8 and 11, and teacher Meghan Lambert, 25, were killed, police said. Another 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were wounded and were taken to a hospital in critical con-

dition, Krantz said. The youngest victim was a fast runner and fearless climber who loved reading and his stuffed animals, his aunt said Friday. “He never met a stufﬁe that he didn’t think needed to be rescued and cared for,” said his aunt, Swan Sheridan, who described him as “a little ball of energy from the moment he was born.” The wounded teacher was identi-

fied by family as Becky Drury. Her mother-in-law, Yvonne Drury, said on Facebook that she had injuries to her left arm and right hand and was recovering from surgery. The pump-action shotgun the attacker used was bought by his mother, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the shooting. The official spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation. Under Oregon law, a minor may possess a shotgun if provided by a parent or by someone else with the parent’s consent. In a statement read to reporters Friday, Kenda Freeman said her son, Kaylub Giamanco, shot the gunman in Thursday’s attack at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend. She said he is the father of two girls at the school. “He is not seeking recognition, but instead wishes to express his gratitude to the first responders, school personnel and community for the outpouring of love and support,” Freeman said, noting that her son is a lifelong resident of Bend, a mountain-ringed city of about 100,000 in central Oregon. She said her family was asking for privacy “during this difficult time.” Silver Rail Elementary has students in kindergarten through fifth grade, with about 450 enrolled last year, according to the Oregon Department of Education. Classes and all other activities were canceled Friday for schools across Bend, a tourism and outdoor recreation hub that has ballooned in population and sits about 125 miles southeast of Portland.

with his district’s blight outreach worker and close friend, Terral “TJ” Jackson. Many council members appoint the person who receives the cityparish contract to identify blight in their districts. In his arrest warrant, investigators say text messages between Cole and Jackson show the two agreed to “accept bribes and kickbacks” associated with blight contracts. The outreach program has been in place for ﬁve years, initially using about 10 workers to identify blight, log it into the government’s 311 public complaint system and help property owners navigate the city-parish’s remediation process. Seven workers are currently under contract, and the number of blighted properties each has logged into the city-parish’s system varies widely. Between 2021 and 2024, some of Jackson’s colleagues logged more than 2,500 instances of blight into the 311 system, while Jackson re-

corded none during that period, according to records obtained by The Advocate. Last year, while one contractor logged hundreds of issues, another outreach worker logged only three — even though both covered areas heavily impacted by blight. Each contractor is paid $24,000 yearly for the outreach work, costing the city-parish about $165,000 annually. Some are assigned to multiple council districts. They are expected to use their own vehicles and have car insurance. The department of development is exploring whether to hire a company that would use cameras on cars to identify blighted areas and assist the outreach workers. Mason Batts, executive director to Mayor-President Sid Edwards, said Friday “the mayor believes new methods of identifying blight are worth exploring.” “Technology can help improve efﬁciency and identify issues such as abandoned buildings, illegal

signs and missing signs that need to be replaced,” Batts said. “We welcome opportunities to explore tools that can help the city identify and address these issues more effectively.” While some officials are open to seeing whether new tech could help make blight identification more efﬁcient, the idea drew pushback from some council members. Dunn mentioned that constituents have voiced privacy issues with Amazon drones, including their discomfort with the images the machines capture, and wondered whether he would hear the same if the tech was used for blight. Dunn, Aaron Moak and other council members questioned whether the technology would just add to a list of properties that the city is already leagues behind in addressing. But the development ofﬁce said 50% of the blight that the cameras would identify can be addressed by property owners without the

need to assign city-parish workers to handle it. Council member Dwight Hudson noted “some controversy” surrounding the contracted outreach workers. “I will tell you, my experience with them was never positive,” Hudson said. “I ended up just having my staff, my council aide, go and look at stuff.” Hudson said he believes something like the camera system could streamline the process, noting it might be worthwhile to explore changing how things have been done over the past few years. “All of our systems are complaint-driven systems. Nothing is proactive. Nothing is actively looking for issues,” Hudson said. “I understand the sensitivities around AI and using cameras and that kind of thing, but I think this is an opportunity for us to leverage technology, save a little money, do things more efﬁciently and ultimately get our parish a little bit cleaner.”

“Bringing back recycled politicians isn’t the path forward,” Bayham said. “It just hearkens back to: There are big personalities that dominated our state that are more sizzle than steak.” The amendment could prevent former Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat with conservative views on issues like abortion and gun laws — and who could threaten Republicans’ hold on the state — from running for ofﬁce again. But some attorneys have argued the law may not apply to Edwards because it does not include speciﬁc language making it retroactive. State Rep. Kyle Green, D-Marre-

ro, has taken that argument a step further. He says the amendment could allow Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, to run for a third consecutive term because it strikes from the constitution language dealing with consecutive gubernatorial terms. Green generally opposes term limits, saying they are “anti-democratic.” “You should put your record up against anyone and let the public decide who they want,” he said. Bayham contends Amendment 4, which was put on the ballot through Act 414 of the spring legislative session, is straightforward: It will apply to people who have already served as governor, and it

will not allow Landry to run for a third term, he said. Landry is in his ﬁrst term and faces reelection next year. A spokesperson for Landry said the governor does not want to seek a third term and provided a statement from him in response to a question about whether he would support Amendment 4. “I am done with amendments. The people have an opportunity to read them, but I am done with amendments,” Landry said. “I am not inﬂuencing amendments.” Landry backed a set of amendments in the spring that voters resoundingly rejected. In the Louisiana Legislature, op-

position to putting Amendment 4 on the ballot came mostly from Democrats. There were, however, a handful of Democrats who backed the proposal, which needed a two-thirds vote to pass. The other constitutional amendments on the ballot this fall deal with property tax laws, drinking water lines and post-conviction bail, among other issues. Early voting runs from Tuesday through Oct. 27, excluding Sunday, Oct. 25. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.

continued from page 1A lice are also still trying to determine how the shooter obtained the gun. The attacker’s mother, Shauntai Nickerson, told reporters outside her apartment near the school that if she could have done something to prevent the shooting, she would have. “I miss my boy,” Nickerson said, sobbing and crying, according to The New York Times and CNN. “I’m so sorry, I wish I could have done something. I’m sorry for their loss.” She declined to say how the 16-year-old obtained the pumpaction shotgun and didn’t comment further when The Associated Press and other outlets knocked on her apartment door later. In a 2020 interview with the local news station KTVZ, Nickerson identified the boy, then 10, as a participant in a special needs program run by the school district. It was called NEST, for Nurturing Empathy, Safety and Trust, and aimed at helping students experiencing intensive behavioral and social skill challenges. Nickerson said he struggled trying to learn from home during the pandemic. The ﬁrst 911 call came from the driver of a red pickup truck early Thursday afternoon who saw the boy throw his gun over a fence outside the school and then climb over it, Krantz said. The driver yelled at the boy, who ﬁred at him, striking the truck three times. The driver was not injured, but drove off and

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continued from page 1A While some have questioned the current program’s efﬁciency and the quality of work done over the past few years, several council members said at a meeting earlier this week that they have been happy with the outreach workers. “They do an amazing job with reporting blight, going to community meetings, engaging with constituents,” council member Cleve Dunn Jr. said. But council members also noted the controversy surrounding the program in recent months, as a criminal indictment scrutinized whether one former contractor’s work was authentic. In August, former Metro Council member LaMont Cole — who is now superintendent of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system — was indicted on conspiracy to commit bribery charges along

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continued from page 1A bring fresh leadership to the state, while critics say voters ought to be able to elect whomever they choose, regardless of whether that person has previously served. State Rep. Mike Bayham, RChalmette, who sponsored the legislation that put Amendment 4 on the ballot, said term limits help bring fresh perspectives to government and give candidates with fewer resources than established politicians a fairer shot at being elected.

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A person places flowers at a makeshift memorial on the other side of Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, ore., on Friday, a day after a deadly shooting.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Public Hearings will be held at Zachary City Hall 4700 Main St. Zachary, LA 70791 during a regular meetings of the Zachary Commission Planning and the Zachary City Council for the following purposes: The Zachary Planning Commission will hold a public hearing Monday, November 2, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. to consider whether or not to recommend the City Council adopt an or‐ dinance to amend the text of the City of Zachary Uniﬁed Develop‐ ment Code to increase the maximum portion of a restaurant’s revenues that can be derived from the sale of alcoholic bev‐ erages from Forty per‐ cent to Fifty percent. The Zachary City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. to con‐ sider whether or not to introduce an ordinance. Said ordinance to amend the City of Zachary Uni‐ ﬁed Development Code to increase the maximum portion of a restaurant’s revenues that can be de‐ rived from the sale of al‐ coholic beverages from Forty percent to Fifty percent. The Zachary City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday, November 24, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. to con‐ sider whether or not to adopt the ordinances in‐ troduced at its November

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3, 2026 regular meeting. Said ordinance to amend the City of Zachary Uni‐ ﬁed Development Code to increase the maximum portion of a restaurant’s revenues that can be de‐ rived from the sale of al‐ coholic beverages from Forty percent to Fifty percent. The details of said pro‐ ordinance (to posed amend the Uniﬁed Devel‐ opment Code to increase the maximum portion of a restaurant’s revenues that can be derived from the sale of alcoholic bev‐ erages from Forty per‐ cent to Fifty percent) can be viewed at City Hall, lo‐ cated at 4700 Main St. Zachary, LA 70791. 204261 Oct. 17, 18, 19, 2026 3t $83.04 PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE The City of St. George Planning & Zoning Com‐ missions will hold public hearings on Monday, No‐ vember 2, 2026, at 6:00 pm at St. George City Hall, 11207 Proverbs Ave, St. George, LA 70816, to consider the following: Planning Commission S-26-0009 Preliminary Plat for Giovanni Square at 14900-15000 Airline Hwy & 18900-19000 High‐ land Rd: This 4.65-acre combined property is lo‐ cated on Lots A-1-A, A-1B, A-1-C, A-1-D-1 and A-1E-1 of the Paulson

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Spence Property, in Sec. 38, T8S-R2E, GLD, EBRP. The applicant requests a preliminary plat to ex‐ change properties be‐ tween the ﬁve existing lots, dedicate new servi‐ tudes and construct a new private street, in the MX-3 Mixed Use Commu‐ nity Zoning District. (Ap‐ plicant: Alvin Fairburn & Assoc., on behalf of Gio‐ vanni Mucciacciaro En‐ terprises, LLC)

Zoning Commission Z-26-0004 Zoning Change at 3455 Jones Creek Rd: This 2.31-acre property is located on Lot B of the Malcolm L. Dixon Tract in Sec. 52, T7S-R2E, GLD, EBRP. The applicant re‐ quests to rezone from the MX-1 Mixed Use Local to the MX-2 Mixed Use Neighborhood Zoning District. (Applicant: Car‐ men Coon, on behalf of Suadi Properties, LLC)

S-26-0037 Subdivision at 8707 Baringer Foreman Rd and 9400-9500 Antioch Rd: This 61.37-acre com‐ bined property is located on Tracts Z-1-A & Z-1-B of the Russel Long Property, in Sec. 50, 51 & 52, T8SR2E, GLD, EBRP. The ap‐ plicant requests a pre‐ plat to liminary/ﬁnal subdivide two tracts into six in the R-9 Residential9 and MX-4 Mixed Use Regional Zoning Districts / PO-PUD-4-09 Long Farm Planned Overlay. (Appli‐ cant: Westwood Profes‐ sional Services, Inc, on behalf of RKL Farm, LLC)

PO-26-0007 Final Devel‐ opment Plan & SP-260012 Site Plan for St. George Civic Complex: This 11.5-acre property is located on portions of Tracts Z-1-A & Z-1-B, pro‐ posed as Tract Z-1-A-2 (Case #S-26-0037) of the Russel Long Property, in Sec. 52, T8S-R2E, GLD, EBRP. The applicant re‐ quests a Final Develop‐ ment Plan and a Site Plan to construct a 173,500 sq. ft. two-story civic build‐ ing with associated park‐ ing and access drives in a single phase, in the MX-4 Mixed Use Regional / PO-PUD-4-09 Long Farm Planned Overlay. (Appli‐ cant: Westwood Profes‐ sional Services, Inc, on behalf of RKL Farm, LLC)

S-26-0039 Exchange of Property at 8700 Cantrell Ln and 16618 Shady Grove Ave: This 5.3-acre combined property is comprised of Tracts G-4G-1-A and G-4-G-1-B of the Round Oak Subdivi‐ sion, 1st Filing, in Sec. 10, T8S-R2E, GLD, EBRP. The applicant requests an ex‐ change of property be‐ tween 2 lots in the RC Re‐ Conservation source Zoning District. (Appli‐ cant: Richmond W. Krebs & Assoc., LLC, on behalf of Sean Forestier & Erwin L. Smith)

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Multiple California homes set ablaze in wildfire BY OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JAIMIE DING Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — A fastmoving fire burned multiple homes in Southern California as hot, windy weather gripped the region Friday, prompting evacuations and power outages. TV footage on KTLA showed several homes burning in San Juan Capistrano in Orange County, flames engulfing them. Aerial footage from TV crews showed firefighters spraying two-story suburban homes with flames leaping out of their roofs. Black smoke billowed over tennis courts and backyard swimming pools. The wildfire started in the coastal city of San Clemente and quickly moved into San Juan Capistrano. It was one of several fires burning in the region that was hit by dry, warm and gusty northeast winds known as Santa Anas, which blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, were forecast. The strongest winds were expected through Friday afternoon. The fires have led to evacuations and tens of thousands of people in the state without

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A tanker drops retardant on the Peak Fire on Thursday in Azusa, calif. power after their electricity was turned off. The cities are in southern Orange County near the coast and surrounded by hillsides. San Juan Capistrano, a city of 35,000, is known for horse trails while nearby San Clemente, which is home to 62,000 people, is known as a “Spanish village by the sea” and popular with beachgoers and surfers. Victor Cabral, a city council member in San Clemente, said fire officials told him four homes have burned in

nearby San Juan Capistrano. Schools have been closed and activities canceled, and thousands were being asked to evacuate, he said. “The ﬁre is right up on the city,” he said. “It’s on the perimeter of our homes on the north end.” Officials have opened a community center with cots, food and water for those in need, he said. The Orange County Fire Authority said two evacuation shelters have been opened, one in each city, and

asked those under evacuation orders to “leave now.” A blaze in Malibu, a coastal town west of Los Angeles, prompted evacuation orders and warnings for a large swath of the Santa Monica Mountains. A large cloud of black smoke over the hilltops could be seen on nearby cameras and miles away. Winds from 20 mph to 35 mph were expected Friday, with gusts forecast to reach 50 mph up to 70 mph in some areas, the National Weather Service said.

With humidity levels dropping, “this will favor a critical fire weather threat,” the service said early Friday. More than 400 firefighters battled the Bryson Fire overnight, which was at 250 acres on Friday morning. It had threatened a Los Angeles County juvenile detention and rehabilitation facility, which was evacuated Thursday night. The most critical fire weather will be seen through Friday afternoon, when the strongest and longest-lasting winds are expected, said Kevin McGowan, director of the Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management. Weather conditions that increase the fire risk were expected to last through Saturday night. “Strong winds and very dry conditions will continue to cause fire starts to spread rapidly, so we’re urging everyone to remain vigilant,” he said. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who faced criticism for her city’s response to deadly fires in 2025, directed the fire department to deploy personnel and equipment ahead of the winds. The fire department also re-

quested assistance from the state’s office of emergency services. “It’s a pretty widespread event of elevated fire weather, so the whole SoCal region should really be on alert,” said Rose Schoenfeld, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. The Santa Anas could reach 20 to 40 mph, with gusts from 50 to 70 mph, in the San Gabriel mountains in Los Angeles County and the Santa Susana mountains, which are mostly in Ventura County, Schoenfeld said. Elevated, though brief, critical fire weather conditions were also forecast for portions of the Santa Lucia mountains in San Luis Obispo County. In Orange County, a winddriven fire that started in the hills of the coastal city of San Clemente quickly grew to 200 acres, prompting the evacuations in San Clemente and in neighboring San Juan Capistrano, where multiple homes were ablaze. Firefighters on Friday worked to contain two other fires that had sparked Thursday afternoon and triggered evacuation orders in the city of Azusa, north of LA, and Camp Pendleton, near San Diego.

Pope speaks with Putin while recovering from lung surgery President Vladimir Putin, delivery of food and medi- surgery. The Kremlin read- “the Vatican’s intention to The 71-year-old Leo had Leo XIv meeting with top aides and cal assistance, and the vol- out of the call suggested help create conditions for the lower lobe of his right Mass in a make- untary and safe evacuation progress had actually been ensuring the safety of the lo- lung removed after doctors denounces recent celebrating made on the humanitarian cal population and facilitat- identiﬁed a suspected canof the civilian population.” shift hospital chapel. front. The statement added The Vatican said that during the delivery of essential cerous nodule. The surgery attacks by Russia ing the call The Kremlin said Putin supplies,” and an agreement conﬁrmed he had adenocarthat Leo “reaffirmed the

BY NICOLE WINFIELD and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press

ROME — Pope Leo XIV gave strong indications Friday that he was recovering well from lung cancer surgery and was very much in charge of running the Catholic Church, speaking on the phone with Russian

with Putin, “the Holy Father expressed his deep concern about the grave h u m a n i t a r- Leo XIV ian situation in the city of Oleshky, in the Kherson region, and called for a ceaseﬁre to allow the

Holy See’s commitment to promoting dialogue and peace.” The statement was significant, showing Leo was well enough to conduct official diplomatic business from the Gemelli hospital, was keeping up with world events and was continuing to promote his message of peace as he recovers from

wished Leo good health and a quick recovery. In response to the pope’s concern about the plight of civilians in the frontline town of Oleshky, Putin gave a “detailed explanation regarding the Kyiv regime’s responsibility for the difficult humanitarian situation there,” the Kremlin said in a statement. Putin voiced support for

was reached to coordinate efforts in this regard, the statement said. Also Friday, the Vatican released the ﬁrst images of Leo since his lung cancer surgery Tuesday, showing him standing up at the altar in green vestments, as doctors said that tests confirmed his “continued improvement.”

cinoma, the most common type of lung cancer. “His postoperative recovery allows him to carry out his normal daily activities completely on his own,” said a medical update signed by Leo’s personal physician Dr. Luigi Carbone and the head of thoracic surgery at Gemelli, Dr. Stefano Margaritora.

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LSU, Ogden partner on ‘Prosperity Institute’ led to that? It’s a lack of Ogden’s vision, and we’re trying Business school What’s education.” to carry this forward,” Crook said. At the meeting, the Board of Su- “We recognize that there’s an opinitiative to promote pervisors approved the request to portunity here to share many of the establish the LSU Prosperity In- important things that are going on, capitalism stitute, which will be housed in the and we feel like maybe there’s been

BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

LSU will launch a new research and educational initiative in the business school focused on teaching young people about capitalism, an effort led by Louisiana developer and major university donor Roger Ogden. “In the most recent polling, it is really, truly, shocking,” Ogden said at a board meeting Friday. “Sixtynine percent of people under the age of 39 think socialism is OK.

E.J. Ourso College of Business and study the “institutions, policies, and economic systems that contribute to economic growth, innovation, opportunity, and improved quality of life,” the resolution said. LSU Chancellor Jim Dalton said Ogden made a “major gift” to start the institute, although the dollar amount was not disclosed. Business school dean Russell Crook said the new institute will conduct research, teach, offer study abroad opportunities and operate a fellows program. “This was really inspired by Mr.

a little bit of a misunderstanding, so our goal is to bring an evidencebased approach.” The institute could potentially partner with Louisiana Economic Development, the Board of Regents and banking and real estate industries, according to the resolution. Academic centers focused on capitalism have popped up at universities in the past couple decades, with institutes dedicated to the study and advancement of free

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LSU donor Roger ogden, center, shakes hands during the LSU Board of ä See PARTNER, page 2B Supervisors meeting at the University Administration building on Friday.

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Michael Marchand, owner of Marchand Finish Painting, paints over the cream color of the iconic Frostop Root Beer sign while restoring it outside the restaurant on Tuesday. Marchand said he was painting the sign for free as a way to show his appreciation to the restaurant he’s been coming to since childhood.

Man may have been dead before welfare checks More details released in homicide of 92-year-old BY OLIVIA TEES Staff writer

Larry Salisbury was possibly already dead when police ofﬁcers responded to a pair of welfare checks at the 92-year-old man’s Baton Rouge home, according to arrest records for his son, who has been jailed in the beating death. Bruce Salisbury, 45, was arrested Tuesday night and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a count of ﬁrst-degree murder. Officers responded to Larry Salisbury’s home around 6:30 p.m. Monday, where they found the man beaten to death with severe head trauma. An autopsy revealed he had multiple skull fractures,

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U.S. Senate candidates hold differing views on Iran war Davis, Letlow race heating up

BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer

Jamie Davis, a farmer who is the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, told 300 people at a Veterans for Davis rally Thursday night that President Donald Trump started the Iran war “without a plan.” Davis also criticized H H H his Republican opponent in the Senate race, U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, for voting against congressional resolutions to end the war, at an event held before an enthusiastic crowd at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Davis made his remarks only days before the early voting period begins on Tuesday, in advance of the Nov. 3 election. In a low-proﬁle campaign without ﬁreworks so far, Davis painted a clear contrast with Letlow, who has Trump’s strong backing. In a recent interview, Let-

low was asked whether Trump had erred in attacking Iran. “I don’t have the intelligence that the president has,” Letlow replied. “I Davis trust that he was acting on behalf of America.” Her comments tracked with what she said in May while speaking before a business group in St. H H H Tammany Parish. “If American lives were not at risk, he would not have taken the action that he did,” she told the North Shore Business Council. “It was bold and decisive.” At Thursday night’s event, former Gov. John Bel Edwards, a West Point grad who spent eight years in the Army, warmed up the crowd for Davis by describing Letlow as a “rubber stamp” for Trump in the House. Speaking as if he were Letlow talking to Trump, Edwards said, “You want to keep ﬁghting in Iran? I’ll support that, even

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though you really can’t tell us why you did it to begin with, what you hope to accomplish, what your strategy is to win, when it Letlow will end.” Following Edwards on the stage, Davis told the crowd that everyone is paying the price for the Iran war in the form of more costly groceries and fuel. “Multiple times, the House of Representatives cleared a resolution to end the war, with votes of support from Republicans and Democrats,” Davis said. “My opponent voted for continuing the war each time. And let me be clear: My ﬁght is not with the troops. It never will be. They kept their oath. My ﬁght is with those who started a war without a plan.” Davis didn’t name Trump, but the crowd’s boisterous response made it clear that it wasn’t necessary.

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A rare “fire weather watch” has been issued for Saturday in the Baton Rouge area by the National Weather Service, as a cold front moved in Friday bringing very dry air and low relative humidity — and gusty north winds. “The combination of gusty winds, ongoing drought conditions, ample dry fuel and very dry air will allow any fire that develops to spread quickly,” the weather agency said Friday morning. Hazardous conditions are expected from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. “Outdoor burning is not recommended,” the weather service said. The agency said a fire weather watch is issued when wind and low humidity, combined with dry fuels like grass, leaves or tree branches, make it more likely for fires to catch and burn. A separate weather alert — a wind advisory — was issued for the Baton Rouge area beginning at 4 p.m. Friday and continuing through 3 p.m. Saturday. North winds of 20 to 25 mph are predicted throughout that time period, with frequent gusts of 30 to 35 mph possible, the National Weather Service said. “Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects,” the service said. “Tree limbs could blow down and a few power outages may result.” Temperatures are expected to drop to around 55 degrees by Saturday morning in the Baton Rouge area. Predictions for the rest of the weekend are a high near 73 degrees, with a low around 51 on Saturday and a high near 75 degrees with a low of 53 on Sunday. Calm winds are expected Sunday through early next week. Highs in the upper 70s and low to mid-80s are predicted Monday through Wednesday, with low temperatures each night around 56 degrees, the weather service said in its seven-day forecast. Email Ellyn Couvillion at ecouvillion@theadvocate. com.

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LSU students protest at board meeting Four removed following criticisms

BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

Campus police ejected four protesters from the LSU Board of Supervisors meeting Friday morning after they attempted to speak during the public comment period about the reorganization of university cultural centers and LSU’s handling of an investigation into an allegation of rape against football player Damien Shanklin. LSU junior Ziad Eissa, a member of the university’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, was led out of the meeting by police after the board found his comments did not relate to the matter at hand. At the time of the student’s remarks, the board was discussing the employment agreement of men’s basketball head coach Will Wade. “It’s not that we don’t want to listen to him, but there’s a time and place, and right now is not the place,” board chair Lee Mallett said. “This kind of stuff is not going to be tolerated, not as long as I’m chair.” The police removed Eissa and three other protesters, who were chanting “shame on you” as the interactions between Eissa and board members escalated. Outside the administration building,

around 20 students stood shouting with signs containing slogans like “restore our cultural centers” and “expel Damien now.” Eissa said after he was removed from the meeting that the organization was protesting the overturning of Shanklin’s suspension. The suspension was ordered after an LSU hearing panel determined that Shanklin was responsible for a rape that allegedly occurred Oct. 18, 2025. Attorneys for Shanklin say that the second-year defensive end maintains his innocence as a criminal investigation moves forward. The students also railed against a reorganization on the Baton Rouge campus that moved the African American Cultural Center and the Women’s Center under Student Affairs. “This is a dangerous time on LSU’s campus,” Eissa said. “There’s a lot of sexual assault cases happening, and for the university to not want to hear the concerns of the students about this, it’s just very worrying. I fear for the safety of students on this campus and of women on this campus.” LSU spokesperson Meg Casper Sunstrom said the students were only removed from the meeting and not issued citations. She said the Shanklin case is an active criminal investigation, and the services provided by the cultural centers are still available under Student Affairs.

Arrest made in fatal Byron Street shooting A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a man on Byron Street Saturday evening, Baton Rouge Police said. Darren Cooks, 28, was arrested Thursday and booked into East Baton Rouge CRIME prison on BLOTTER Parish a count of firststaff degree murder, reports police said in a news release. Jaymirus Stewart, 29, was found by police at around 5 p.m. Saturday in the 6000 block of Byron Street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a local hospital, but died from his injuries. Stewart was outside a vehicle, making a transaction with a passenger inside, when the vehicle sped off and shots were fired from inside the car, surveillance video showed, according to the affidavit. Stewart fell from the vehicle and attempted to run away, but collapsed near a home. U.S. Marshals spotted Cooks in a vehicle on Thursday and pursued him, but Cooks stopped the car and fled on foot into a house. Cooks hid in the attic but officers were able to take him into custody.

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A protester points to the University Administration building while leading a chant during the LSU Board of Supervisors meeting on Friday.

Protester Margo Wilson records an LSU police officer after being escorted out of the LSU Board of Supervisors meeting on Friday.

Get medieval with it at 13th annual Maker Faire Daylong activities at Main Library

BY JOY HOLDEN Staff writer

The time has come for the East Baton Rouge Parish Library’s 13th annual Maker Faire, featuring 62 vendors and their wares, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, at the Main Library, 7711 Goodwood Blvd. in Baton Rouge.

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continued from page 1B markets at Clemson University, the University of Kentucky and Oklahoma State University, for example. Ogden said the initiative is needed at LSU because his generation has done a “lousy job” passing down the “secret sauce” to national prosperity — what he identiﬁed as labor, capital and free markets.

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continued from page 1B brain bleeding, facial fractures, a crushed larynx, multiple bone fractures and a spine fracture, according to Bruce Salisbury’s arrest warrant. Larry Salisbury’s body was no longer in rigor mortis by the time the Coroner’s Ofﬁce responded to the scene, meaning he had been dead for 24 to 36 hours, accord-

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continued from page 1B Letlow, in her recent interview, said constituents “seem to understand that we can’t allow Iran to have nuclear weapons or the capability to make nuclear weapons. We all don’t want to see this drag on for years and years. We’d like to see it come to a conclusion pretty shortly.” But Davis, in a separate interview, noted that Trump said last year he had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear bomb making facilities and that he had decimated Iran’s military in the open days of the war this year. “So if they have been decimated, why are we still ﬁghting?” Davis asked. “If there’s no chance of them having a weapon of mass destruction, why are we still ﬁghting? If everything he’s going to do has been accomplished, why are we still over there?”

This year’s theme is a throwback to the Middle Ages: “Getting Medieval With It.” From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, the free event is a venue for these “makers” to showcase their hobbies, experiments and projects. The Maker Movement is a global initiative “rooted in the DIY culture of the mid-20th century” that celebrates creativity, innovation and handson learning. Several maker faire events will happen around the

world in the fall. Throughout the day, families in Baton Rouge will be able to move from activity to maker to explore the different vendors — including booths with jewelry, crochet, woodworking, art, handmade journals, 3D printing, pottery and more. Events and activities include face painting, a Maypole experience, the Bayou Tapestry, operate trebuchets, a stained glass demonstration, a dulcimer performance

and discussion, mead making, creating medieval miniature landscapes, illuminated manuscript creation, fire breathing, a harp performance and chain-mail making. Multiple food trucks will be onsite. For the full schedule, visit ebrpl.com/events-classes. For more, visit batonrouge.makerfaire.com.

Capitalism, “when compared to other major economic systems throughout history, no matter whatever nation in the world has adopted them, by far creates the greatest prosperity for the greatest number all through the socioeconomic level,” Ogden said. “I don’t believe that a lot of the younger generation, and really a lot of our media and journalists, understand that.” Ogden, a real estate developer, has previously served as chair of the LSU Board of Supervisors. He is known for co-founding and lead-

ing Stirling Properties for 20 years, managing a $200 million portfolio of shopping centers, according to his biography on the Greater New Orleans Foundation website. He also founded the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. In 2014, he donated $12 million to the LSU honors college, which was renamed to the Roger Hadﬁeld Ogden Honors College. Economics professor Areendam Chanda will serve as director of the new Prosperity Institute. Chanda’s research specializes in long-term

economic growth, according to his faculty proﬁle. “For a long time, I’ve been teaching the importance of markets and the role of trade and deregulation,” Chanda said. “This is an incredible opportunity to carry this message forward and talk to a larger student body and do other things in addition to teaching to get students to appreciate the importance of markets.” The Prosperity Institute will now go to the Board of Regents for state-level approval as a new academic institute.

A man was arrested for intentionally setting a Livingston mobile home on fire and the resulting blaze spreading to a neighboring mobile home, the Louisiana State Fire Marshal said. Anthony Delatte Watts, 56, of Walker, was arrested and booked into Livingston Parish Detention Center on Thursday on a count of aggravated arson. His bond is currently set at $100,000. Livingston Parish Fire District 4 responded to a fire at 6:19 p.m. Monday, in the 17000 block of Olive Drive in Livingston. Fire marshals said the fire was intentionally set at a mobile home but spread to a neighboring home, where two residents escaped unharmed. After an investigation, fire marshals identified Watts as a suspect and obtained a warrant. The investigation remains ongoing.

ing to the warrant. That indicates that Larry Salisbury could have been dead by the time the police responded to two welfare checks at the home the day before. Neighbors called police shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday because they heard Bruce Salisbury smashing a window on his father’s car, the warrant states. Ofﬁcers responded to the Archery Drive home at 3:45 a.m., where Bruce Salisbury told them he had smashed the window in anger after his father took away his car keys. Officers left

about 4 a.m. and said they did not observe anyone else in the home, the warrant states. Police responded to the home again at 9:50 a.m. Monday in response to another welfare check where the neighbor told police Bruce Salisbury had said his father was dead. Ofﬁcers did not get a response from anyone inside the residence on that visit, the warrant said. About nine hours later on Monday, police executed a search warrant at the home where Larry

Salisbury was found dead. Police began looking for Bruce Salisbury to question him about his father’s death. At 10:20 a.m. Tuesday, officers attempted to stop a vehicle on Sherwood Forest Boulevard that they suspected was being driven by Bruce Salisbury. Salisbury led police on a high-speed pursuit, hitting speeds of up to 100 mph before crashing on Greenwell Street. He was taken into custody. Bruce Salisbury had a protective order against him after he

was arrested for domestic abuse battery against his father on July 24. According to court documents, Salisbury, who was living with his father at the Archery Drive residence at the time, had beaten the elderly man and given him two black eyes. As part of the conditions of Bruce Salisbury’s bail, the court issued a yearlong protective order upon his release from jail on July 31. Bruce Salisbury’s next court appearance is scheduled for Feb. 15.

Police: Man arrested for setting home on fire

Email Joy Holden at joy. holden@theadvocate.com.

Protection your loved ones deserve ... At the World War II Museum, Davis criticized the Trump administration for keeping the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Middle East for so long. “We watched a carrier come home after nearly a year at sea, with the sailors sick and worn down,” Davis said. “No hot water. Bad food. Short on soap.” He continued: “Five months ago, my opponent said she was happy that the President had negotiated an end to the war and things would become affordable again. My opponent hasn’t been straight with Louisianans about the cost of this war.” Before he began his prepared speech, Davis called Gary Crockett onto the stage, which was lined with veterans. Davis noted that Crockett was a veteran — he spent 24 years in the Navy — and had been his opponent in the Democratic primary. Also standing beside Davis was Nick Albares, an-

other opponent in the Democratic primary, who is now his policy adviser. Letlow has not secured the support of either of her Republican primary opponents, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy or state Treasurer John Fleming. Email Tyler Bridges at tbridges@theadvocate. com.

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son-Barker and his wife, Donna; and his grandchildren, Stephen Barker, Sophie Barker and Ella Barker. A memorial service will be held on October 19, 2026, at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East, 11000 Florida Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Visitation will take place from noon until 2:00 p.m., followed by the memorial service at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to Broadmoor United Methodist Church, 10230 Mollylea Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and/or The Hospice of Baton Rouge, 8591 United Plaza Boulevard, Suite 200, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with donations designated for The Butterfly Wing.

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William Alsey Barker, Jr., 80, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, passed away on October 11, 2026. He was born on August 28, 1946, in Raleigh, North Carolina, to William Alsey Barker, Sr., and Myrtle Smith Barker. William was a member of Broadmoor United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge. He graduated from Clemson University in 1968 with a degree in electrical engineering and enjoyed a 35-year career as an electrical engineer with IBM. Above all, William will be remembered for his love and devotion to his family. He is survived by his loving wife, Barbara Spears Barker; his sisters, Anne Gibbs and Sandra Moore, and her husband, John; his brother, Kenneth Barker, and his wife, Debbie; his sons, Wayne Barker and his wife, Holly, and Michael Wilker-

Myrick, William Benjamin

William Benjamin Myrick, Jr., 79, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, passed away on October 13, 2026 He was born on March 24, 1947 in Baton Rouge to William Benjamin Myrick, Sr., and Maudye Horton Myrick. William dedicated his professional career to caring for others as a respiratory therapist at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. His work reflected a commitment to helping patients and providing care when it was needed most. He is survived by his two sons, William Myrick III and Allen Myrick, and four grandchildren, Cooper Myrick, Boyd Myrick, Corbin Myrick, and Lulu Myrick. He was preceded in death by Joan Myrick. William will be remembered by his family and loved ones, who will cherish his memory and the time they shared with him.

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China moves to curb tech exports

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HONG KONG — China on Friday said it plans to restrict or ban exports of 40 technologies that span artiﬁcial intelligence, chips and solar power as its technology race with countries including the United States intensiﬁes. The Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology jointly published a draft document with the proposed updates for China’s catalog of technologies subjected to export bans or restrictions. A spokesperson from the commerce ministry said in a statement that the move was “necessary” and

over AI safety and governance and on the setting up of a notiﬁcation mechanism between the two superpowers for AI incidents that could threaten national security. Twenty-three AI technologies, from advanced large models to agents, are included on Friday’s list, according to the Chinese ministries. U.S.-led restrictions have curbed the export of some advanced technologies to China over the past years, with the country blocked from accessing the world’s most cutting-edge AI chips and the advanced chipmaking machines that make them. Exports of core technologies of AI large models trained using sensitive national data would be

national defense and critical information infrastructure. “The Chinese government is implementing such necessary measures with the aims of reinforcing the security bottom line, preventing misuse and abuse, and ensuring that AI remains under human control,” the commerce ministry’s statement said. Meanwhile, exports of AI models with parameter counts of 2 trillion or above, or with certain worldleading capabilities, could be restricted. An AI model’s parameter count is a key metric that reﬂects its learning capacity. Chinese AI models including Moonshot’s Kimi K3 and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8-Max are among those

gies, including for some AI processing chips and memory chips, are also included in the proposed export restrictions. The move “can be seen as a response to Western countries posting sovereignty requirements on AI, robotics, telecommunications, and other key technologies,” said Lian Jye Su, a chief analyst at technology research and advisory group Omdia. The aim would be to better regulate access to the Chinese technologies, he believes. The U.S. Commerce Department in June had asked Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from using some of its most powerful AI models, citing national security concerns. The restrictions were later lifted.

Warsh says price stability is key but shies away from signals about rates Fed chair says surge in AI is ‘consequential change’

BY ELAINE KURTENBACH AP business writer

BANGKOK — Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said Friday he won’t prejudge what the U.S. central bank will do about interest rates at its upcoming meetings in October and December. The Fed increased its key interest rate by a quarter-point to about 3.9% in September, its first increase in three years, and stubbornly elevated U.S. inflation will likely lead it to hike that rate again in coming months to slow spending and help cool price pressures. But Warsh offered no fresh signals during a “fireside chat” with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at a meeting of financial leaders in Bangkok. “At the Federal Reserve, we made very clear that we would deliver price stability, and we removed a dose of accommodation about a month ago,” Warsh said. “I don’t prejudge meetings. I don’t believe in saying now what I might do at the meetings that we have in the balance of this year.” The Fed’s September rate hike defied U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated calls for the Fed to cut rates. The president criticized the Fed’s rate-setting committee, though he still expressed support for Warsh, whom he appointed earlier this year. The global surge in prices is a key concern of central bankers and financial leaders meeting in Bangkok. According to minutes released from the most recent meeting, most Fed officials expect that another interest rate increase will likely be needed this year. That would raise borrowing costs for mortgages, car loans, and credit cards over time. Warsh said the surge in investment driven

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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, left, and U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh greet after speaking at the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday. by the craze for artificial intelligence is one of the factors behind higher inflation and the Fed’s task force on issues related to AI will meet Nov. 16. “I’d say the advent of this new technology is probably the most consequential change to the U.S. and the global economy in my lifetime to this point,” he said. Unlike military conflict and other shocks that are driving prices higher, Warsh said he believes AI will bring “huge benefit” to the world economy in time. For Fed economists who struggle to foresee

the future using data that lags behind today’s realities, AI could prove a vital tool, he said. “We torture data with old fashioned models to try to find out what’s underlying inflation trends. Not so long from now, it won’t be torture. We will have access at the fingertips of central banks to all the information in the world, and we’ll be able to use new analytical tools to distill that data,” he said. AP economics writer Christopher Rugaber in Washington and AP journalist Haruka Nuga in Bangkok contributed to this story.

IMF-World Bank meetings focus on risks, potential beneﬁts of AI ‘Formula 1 at night without brakes’ BY ELAINE KURTENBACH

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BANGKOK — Guardrails are urgently needed to contain potential risks from the boom in artiﬁcial intelligence, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Friday, likening the technology to a Formula 1 race car that might go off the track and run people over. “We are racing, and the question is how do we put barriers? So if a car was to ﬂy out it doesn’t kill people,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said. “I have high respect for the industry. I think what you’re doing is incredibly important for humanity. You may give us the biggest gift, but if the car runs over people, that gift may not be so worthwhile,” she said while speaking on a panel on the impact of AI on the world economy along with experts including Anthropic co-founder and head of policy Jack Clark. Clark is among technology industry leaders pushing for faster action on regulating AI. In a blog post last month, the rival to Open-

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Protesters march to a meeting venue during a demonstration against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday. AI proposed that the world’s top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning the technology is improving so quickly there’s a risk humans would lose control. “I think it’s worse than you describe. I think it’s Formula 1 at night without maybe brakes in the cars,” Clark said. “And it’s remark-

able to me that the toys I buy for my children are regulated more than the literal superintelligence I work on at my day job.” He added that the effort to build policy frameworks to regulate AI is underway. About 10% of jobs might be transformed or newly created, while work involving repetitive tasks will be gone, Georgieva said.

The third category will be service sector jobs generated by people who benefit from the investment boom. “The net impact is positive,” she said, though she added that “services don’t pay a lot.” “So you get young people who normally would have gone into professional routine jobs now serving coffee in Starbucks. And that is not what I think young people in the world aspire for,” she said. Tiff Macklem, the governor of the Bank of Canada, compared that to the effects on employment from more open trade, which has generated great global wealth and raised millions out of poverty. But many millions also lost their livelihoods as manufacturers moved jobs to China and other developing countries. He said “in aggregate there is an overall benefit,” but acknowledged that in both trade and technology “there will be winners and losers.” “You have to find a way to help the losers,” Macklem said. “Without a system to help them cope with the loss you get a backlash.” Dozens of people marched in Bangkok on Thursday and Friday in peaceful protests, seeking to draw attention to growing inequality and other frustrations.

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Looking under the hood of the latest polls

Polls are flooding election coverage. But buried beneath the latest publicized numbers are fascinating findings that rarely make headlines. As usual, we start with President Donald Trump. The latest Pew Research poll drew plenty of media attention by putting Trump’s job approval rating at just 30%. But an average of six other polls conducted around the same time (Sept. 28 to Oct. 5) showed his approval rating considerably higher at 39.7%. That’s still not good for Trump, but it’s not as dismal as Pew’s number. The lesson? Whether you’re a Democrat or Ron Republican, don’t jump too quick for joy — or Faucheux panic — over a single national poll showing your side doing surprisingly well or badly. Look at the polling averages and follow the trends. They tell a fuller story. Diving deeper: n More on Trump: Polling from the Economist/YouGov shows that 26% of voters who cast ballots for Trump in 2024 now think worse of him. Whether and how much of this 26% either doesn’t vote, or votes for Democrats, will decide the close races. The poll also finds that most Republicans now say they preferred Trump’s positions as a candidate over his current positions as president, 54% to 30% margin. New surveys, additionally, show that in four key states that Trump carried for president all three times — Texas, Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina — his approval ratings have fallen to between 41% and 44%. It’s hard to grab any coattails when the numbers are that low. n It’s the economy, again: Among independents, the voters who often swing close elections, only 16% rate the economy as excellent or good while 80% say it’s fair or poor. Furthermore, 64% of independents think it’s getting worse, compared to just 11% who think it’s getting better. (Economist poll) n A pox on both their houses: Big majorities dislike both parties; 58% of voters view the Democratic Party unfavorably, while 61% say the same about the Republican Party. (Pew poll) n Back to basics: After “inflation/affordability” (45%), the issue ranking second in importance to voters personally is “restoring basic American values of merit and competence” (12%). That’s followed by crime (9%), immigration (8%), climate change (5%), abortion (5%), the Iran war (4%), tariffs (3%) and guns (2%). (Harvard/Harris poll) n Death penalty: 52% support it, while 31% oppose it. For the method used: 47% favor lethal injection, 34% select firing squads, 21% pick electrocution and 17% favor hanging. Firing squads are preferred by 47% of Republicans, 37% of independents and 17% of Democrats. Only 18% of all adults polled favor live public executions. (Economist poll) n Slow down: A whopping 71% of U.S. adults think artificial intelligence is advancing too quickly. Women (76%), liberals (84%) and Democrats (82%) are especially alarmed. Among those most likely to vote in November, 44% trust Democrats to handle AI, compared with 35% who trust Republicans. (Economist poll) n A rose by any other name: Only 13% think renaming “artificial intelligence” as “super intelligence” is a good idea. (Economist poll) n Say what? Donald Trump’s unfavorable rating, 53%, is higher than the unfavorable rating of the Democratic Socialists of America, 44%. (Harvard/Harris poll) n Tuckered out: Pundit Tucker Carlson’s unfavorable rating among U.S. voters, at 40%, is now higher than the negative ratings of two world leaders he frequently attacks: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with a 38% unfavorable rating, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with a 31% unfavorable rating. (Harvard/Harris poll) n Democrats for 2028: Kamala Harris continues to lead her party’s presidential field with 30%, followed by Gavin Newsom (15%), Pete Buttigieg (9%), Jon Ossoff (8%), Mark Kelly (5%), Josh Shapiro (5%) and Andy Beshear (3%). (Financial Times poll) n Republicans for 2028: JD Vance leads the GOP presidential field with 38%, followed by Marco Rubio (24%), Ron DeSantis (9%), Donald Trump Jr. (7%) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (4%). (Financial Times poll) n Running again: Two former presidential candidates are running for governor this year. Democrat Amy Klobuchar leads by nine points in two recent Minnesota polls. In Ohio, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is in a tough battle; two polls show him slightly ahead, but other surveys have his Democratic opponent leading by bigger margins. Ron Faucheux is a nonpartisan political analyst, pollster and writer based in Louisiana.

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The better individuals do, the better off we all are

To Dems, no one’s above the law except illegal immigrants Among people having a discussion (argument?) about President Donald Trump, a favorite thing for Democrats to say is, “No one is above the law.” Of course, they are referencing the lawfare waged against Trump in the past, his past convictions, etc. They intend to continue it when they get back into power in D.C. — they have said so repeatedly. Please see the front-page article Oct. 13, “Senate candidates Davis, Letlow both support closed border.” Jamie Davis said, “If we have a person who is illegal and they have been living a model life, they should be given an opportunity. Did they break the law? Yes, they did. If you come to this country illegally, you broke the law. But I want America and Louisiana to remember one thing: People who look like me and look like the people we deem Caucasians, none of us was here.” So, using Davis’ logic, some people should be above the law.

In his guest column in the newspaper, David Thomas warns that the Democratic Party is moving toward socialism (“Why today’s socialist movement is woefully misguided,” Oct. 9). While democratic socialists have gained some inﬂuence, most elected Democrats do not embrace their agenda. Thomas also seems to confuse socialism with government programs that beneﬁt society. Would he object to public education, interstate highways, Social Security or Medicare simply because government is involved? Our own history tells us that capitalism hasn’t always provided equal opportunity. Native Americans, enslaved Africans, victims of Jim Crow, Japanese Americans during World War II and generations of immigrants have faced barriers that kept them from participating fully in our economy. And isn’t it ironic that the Trump administration has taken ownership interests in private companies and sought control over natural resources in other countries? Some of these actions could just as easily be characterized as socialist. I don’t believe anyone is entitled to equal economic results. But everyone should have a fair chance to reach their potential. Good schools, job training, food assistance and efforts to eliminate discrimination aren’t simply handouts. They help people become productive, independent members of society. When we fail to give people that chance, we don’t just hurt those individuals. We lose their talents, their productivity and everything they might have contributed to our economy. The better individuals do, the better off we all are.

His argument centers on being compassionate and the fact that Native Americans were defeated by newcomers. What a crock of bull. Throughout human history, newcomers to any territory have defeated the people currently living there and taken over the land and the society. So, which is it? “No one” is above the law or “some people” are above the law? If it were a Democratic president rounding up and deporting illegal immigrants, I suspect that most Democrats would be in favor of it. Most of us, including progressives, have doors with locks on our houses so we can control who enters our home and protect our property. Today’s Democratic Party, which has been taken over by communists (socialists? Hah!) have not been offering their homes to illegal immigrants, have they? Where is their compassion?

JIM STEPHENS Slidell

Self-deportation process a horror show The letter by Joseph Molyneux regarding detainees and selfdeportation was rife with misinformation (if not just lies). I know because I recently helped a friend self-deport. It was a horror show from start to finish. Let’s start with the fact that my friend (Colombian) was in the United States legally with a duly filed asylum application, a work permit, a job, a Social Security number and a date set for a hearing. He had no criminal record or any missed immigration hearings. Due process would never have allowed him to be arrested in the first place. Once arrested, due process would have afforded him the ability to get a bond (which I was willing to pay for). That was denied for no reason. Speaking of due process, it is a meaningless term if the person is taken off to a jail hundreds of miles from the place of arrest, family and attorneys. It is worse

than meaningless; it is a cruel hoax which your author and the criminal in the White House get to espouse. The reality is being snatched off the street (like my friend) and trucked off to a remote jail with no access to your phone, your computer or your family, except for a brief phone call. You don’t get to collect your computer, etc., or say goodbye to your wife and child (my friend’s situation), get your clothes or pay critical bills. You don’t even get sent to your home city in the country you are sent to. Every step appears to be intended to be as vicious as possible. My friend was just dumped at an airport halfway across the country from where his family lived. My friend who “self deported” was held for weeks, as are most people in this sick “self-deportation” process.

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THINKING Kiffin gave Tiger Stadium’s visiting locker room a makeover. There’s a science behind his colorful idea. BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer

A brush, two paint rollers and a plastic Sherwin-Williams bag sat in the middle of the floor. Non-adhesive masking paper protected the purple carpet from paint stains, and blue painter’s tape held the beige paper in place. The unmistakable scent of fresh paint filled the air. The visiting locker room at Tiger Stadium — just days before LSU’s matchup against Mississippi State on Saturday (11 a.m., ESPN) — was undergoing a Barbie-style makeover. Lane Kiffin was transforming these cramped quarters into a pink wonderland. The walls. The lockers. Everything but the bathroom, ceiling and floor was turning into Regina George’s Wednesday outfit in the movie “Mean Girls.” Pink. “I told you guys when I got here,” Kiffin said in August. “My job is not for other schools, other people, media or any of that. My job is for the people that hired me, what they want me to do and the players in this room.” ä See LSU, page 2C

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BROADCAST INFORMATION Mississippi State at LSU 11 a.m. Saturday, Tiger Stadium TV: ESPN | Line: LSU by 16½ Radio: WDGL-FM, 98.1; WWL-AM, 870; WWL-FM, 105.3; KLWB-FM, 103.7

TEAM SCHEDULES Mississippi State

LSU Date Opponent 9.5 Clemson 9.12 La. Tech 9.19 at Ole Miss 9.26 Texas A&M 10.3 McNeese 10.10 at Kentucky 10.17 Mississippi State 10.24 at Auburn 11.7 Alabama 11.14 Texas 11.21 at Tennessee 11.28 at Arkansas

Time/TV W, 51-10 W, 45-14 L, 32-24 W, 35-6 W, 63-14 L, 35-34 (OT) 11 a.m./ESPN 11 a.m./TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

Date 9.5 9.12 9.19 9.26 10.3 10.17 10.24 10.31 11.7 11.14 11.21 11.27

Opponent UL-Monroe at Minnesota at South Carolina Missouri Alabama at LSU Oklahoma at Texas Vanderbilt Auburn Tennessee Tech at Ole Miss

Time/TV W, 62-13 W, 38-13 W, 41-34 W, 31-24 L, 56-23 11 a.m./ESPN 2:30 p.m./TBD TBD TBD TBD Noon/SECN+ 11 a.m./ABC

DEPTH CHARTS LSU

Mississippi State

OFFENSE

WIDE RECEIVER

6 WINSTON WATKINS 83 Corey Barber

WIDE RECEIVER

3 EUGENE WILSON 1 Jayce Brown

WIDE RECEIVER

4 JACKSON HARRIS 88 Malik Elzy

LEFT TACKLE

77 JORDAN SEATON 65 Sean Thompkins

LEFT GUARD

50 WILLIAM SATTERWHITE 67 Bo Bordelon

CENTER

61 BRAELIN MOORE 50 William Satterwhite

RIGHT GUARD

55 ALIOU BAH 70 Devin Harper

RIGHT TACKLE

75 WESTON DAVIS 69 Darrin Strey

TIGHT END

44 ZACH GRACE 14 Roman Mothershed

QUARTERBACK

10 SAM LEAVITT 11 Landen Clark

RUNNING BACK

13 DILIN JONES 22 Harlem Berry

5-10 5-11

OFFENSE

182 183

So. Fr.

5-11 5-11

190 175

Jr. Sr.

6-2 6-2

202 217

Jr. Jr.

6-5 6-5

307 308

Jr. Jr.

6-3 6-6

293 305

So. Sr.

6-2 6-3

301 293

Sr. So.

6-5 6-4

327 312

Sr. So.

6-6 6-7

315 314

So. Fr.

6-2 6-5

236 212

Jr. Jr.

6-2 6-0

216 195

Jr. So.

5-11 5-10

211 193

So. Sr.

6-4 6-5

244 285

Sr. Fr.

6-3 6-3 6-6

296 339 297

Jr. Fr. Jr.

6-1 6-3

279 286

Fr. Jr.

6-5 6-3

246 252

Jr. Jr.

6-0 6-3

227 228

Jr. Fr.

6-2 6-1

225 227

Sr. So.

6-3 6-3

208 218

Sr. So.

6-4 6-1

189 162

So. So.

5-11 6-0

164 188

Jr. Jr.

6-1 6-2

175 213

Fr. Sr.

6-0 6-1

206 175

Jr. Fr.

WIDE RECEIVER

3 ANTHONY EVANS 81 Zion Crumpton

WIDE RECEIVER

13 SANFRISCO MAGEE 0 Gracen Harris

WIDE RECEIVER

7 ZION RAGINS 2 Marquis Johnson

LEFT TACKLE

58 MILES MCVAY 54 Blake Steen

LEFT GUARD

78 DJ CHESTER 62 Jamari Freeman

CENTER

72 CANON BOONE 79 Dalton Toothman

RIGHT GUARD

50 LJ PRUDHOMME 77 TJ Lockhart

RIGHT TACKLE

51 J. SHUMPERT-PERKINS 71 Saquon Miles

TIGHT END

87 SAM WEST 88 Joeseph Skipworth

QUARTERBACK

1 KAMARIO TAYLOR 15 Billy Puckett

RUNNING BACK

24 FLUFF BOTHWELL 6 Kolin Wilson

DEFENSE

DEFENSIVE TACKLE 90 STEPHIYLAN GREEN 88 Richard Anderson 96 Dominick McKinley

DEFENSIVE TACKLE 99 DEUCE GERALDS 47 Malik Blocton

DEFENSIVE END 29 JORDAN ROSS 97 Dylan Carpenter

LINEBACKER 42 DAVHON KEYS 35 Zach Weeks

LINEBACKER 6 TJ DOTTERY 24 Tylen Singleton

STAR 2 TY BENEFIELD 31 CJ Jimcoily

CORNERBACK 5 DJ PICKETT 21 Michael Turner

CORNERBACK 11 PJ WOODLAND 8 Ja’Keem Jackson

SAFETY 28 Jhase Thomas 13 Faheem Delane

SAFETY 0 TAMARCUS COOLEY 28 Jhase Thomas

80 SCOTT STARZYK

PUNTER

90 GRANT CHADWICK 99 Hayden Craig

LONG SNAPPER

43 SILAS HALL 39 Mack Mulhern

KICK RETURNER 22 Harlem Berry

PUNT RETURNER

3 EUGENE WILSON 1 Jayce Brown

Sr. Fr.

6-2 5-11

200 175

So. Fr.

5-8 5-11

170 190

So. Sr.

6-6 6-6

335 340

Jr. Sr.

6-6 6-4

315 310

Jr. Sr.

6-4 6-5

325 320

Sr. Fr.

6-3 6-5

330 350

Fr. So.

6-5 6-5

340 320

Jr. Jr.

6-4 6-5

250 225

Jr. Fr.

6-4 6-0

230 180

So. Fr.

5-10 5-9

230 190

Jr. Fr.

DEFENSIVE END 4 AMAREE WILLIAMS 13 LaKendrick James

6-4 6-2

240 250

Jr. Jr.

6-4 6-2

295 320

Jr. Sr.

6-4 6-5

315 310

Sr. So.

6-5 6-6

295 280

Sr. Sr.

6-2 6-3

230 240

So. Jr.

6-2 6-1

235 240

Jr. Fr.

5-11 6-1

200 185

Sr. Jr.

6-1 6-0

200 205

Jr. So.

6-4 6-1

205 190

Sr. So.

6-1 6-0

195 195

Sr. Sr.

6-0 5-11

220 195

Sr. Sr.

DEFENSIVE TACKLE 42 DJ REED 35 Kalvin Dinkins

DEFENSIVE TACKLE 9 JARAY BLEDSOE 14 Dealyn Evans

DEFENSIVE END 43 WILL WHITSON 97 Jayson Jenkins

LINEBACKER 11 TYLER LOCKHART 16 Derion Gullette

LINEBACKER 0 FATT FOREST 32 AJ Rice

NICKEL 15 MARCUS WILLIAMS 21 Dre Riley

CORNERBACK 20 JETT JEFFERSON 24 Quentin Taylor

CORNERBACK 1 KELLEY JONES 8 Kaylib Singleton

SAFETY 5 JARDIN GILBERT 28 Tanner Johnson

SAFETY 2 ISAAC SMITH 3 Kendel Dolby

SPECIAL TEAMS KICKER

190 180

DEFENSE

DEFENSIVE END 1 PRINCEWILL UMANMIELEN 55 Lamar Brown

5-11 6-1

SPECIAL TEAMS

5-9

175

So.

6-5 6-1

208 211

Jr. Fr.

PUNTER

6-3 6-1

213 224

So. Fr.

LONG SNAPPER

5-10

193

Sr.

5-11 5-11

190 175

Jr. Sr.

KICKER 80 KYLE FERRIE 8 ETHAN PULLIAM 46 KYLE RUSHING

6-1

205

Sr.

6-1

190

Jr.

6-1

200

Fr.

5-11

190

Sr.

5-11

190

Sr.

KICK RETURNER 2 MARQUIS JOHNSON

PUNT RETURNER 3 ANTHONY EVANS

COACHES Lane Kiffin was 5-1 against Mississippi State while coaching at ole Miss, losing 24-22 in 2022.

Jeff Lebby was 7-18 in his first two seasons coaching Mississippi State, but he’s 4-1 in 2026.

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Painting of the visitors’ locker room wraps up on Wednesday in Tiger Stadium.

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continued from page 1c When Mississippi State walks into the visiting locker room Saturday, it’ll be the first team to experience the entire dressing room doused in pink. The walls were painted pink before LSU’s Week 4 matchup with Texas A&M, but this weekend the lockers themselves will sport the color for the first time. Kiffin isn’t the first coach to use the pink visiting locker-room trick. Iowa first came up with the idea in 1979, when then-coach Hayden Fry started a tradition that still stands today. Colorado State also colored its visiting locker room pink in the 1980s. Kiffin painted the visiting changing room in Oxford, Mississippi, that color after reading what Iowa had done and learning from a study on how colors could affect the mind “before a competitive match.” He didn’t specify which study he read, but the idea that color can affect a person’s mood, behavior or physiology isn’t far-fetched, at least according to Alaina Bruce, a licensed interior designer at Ritter Maher Architects. “You can look at the tone of color and the intensity of color,” Bruce said, “and then when you put that into a built environment, which is what I do every day, then you really can control an emotional response. Which is crazy to think about.” Blues and greens, for example, are frequently used in health care buildings because they create calming atmospheres that correlate with nature. Food brands often use red in their logos, since studies show the color triggers hunger. Bruce doesn’t use pink often in her line of work, though she said it’s become trendy lately to paint certain spaces pink, such as a reception room or bathroom. But since pink, depending on the shade, is typically a calming color, Bruce believes it could affect an athlete’s aggression before a game. “There’s a science to back it up that (softer colors) lower blood pressure, heart rate, all of these things,” Bruce said. “And when you put this nontraditional color in a locker room or (use it in) a nontraditional application, the goal is to create an uncomfortable setting for the opposing team.” At least one study suggests Bruce’s theory may be sound. In 1979, psychologist Alexander Schauss

Painting of the visitors’ locker room wraps up on Wednesday in Tiger Stadium. persuaded the U.S. Naval Correctional Center in Seattle to paint one of its seclusion rooms pink to test whether a specific shade of the color — Baker-Miller Pink, named after the officers who allowed Schauss to conduct the study — could reduce aggression in inmates. After a 156-day period in which inmates’ assault rates were tracked before and after they’d been placed in the pink cell, Schauss found that their aggression was reduced after spending time in the room. “Confinees only required a maximum of 15 minutes of exposure (in the pink room) to ensure that the potential for violent or aggressive behavior had been reduced,” Schauss wrote. “Further, it was surprisingly discovered that the effects of color linger on for at least another 30 minutes after removal from the cell.” Schauss’ findings gained popularity in Switzerland, where 30 jail cells, as of 2013, had been painted pink to reduce inmates’ aggression. The country also has four police drunk tanks that are colored pink, specifically in the town of Bienne.

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LSU 34, MISSISSIPPI STATE 27 This score is highly variable depending on whether Kamario Taylor plays, or if he’s close to healthy. If he’s hobbled, Taylor should be easier to corral, and this is an offensive line the Tigers defensive line should post some wins against. Mississippi State ranks 109th nationally in sacks allowed at 2.6 per game. If Princewill Umanmielen and friends can apply pressure after a quiet outing at Kentucky, LSU should bounce back. LSU 35, MISSISSIPPI STATE 21 odd circumstances around this one. Mississippi State is ranked higher than LSU in the polls, but LSU is a two-touchdown favorite. The Tigers are at home, too, but the kickoff is at 11 a.m. Most folks seem to think Kamario Taylor won’t play, which is obviously a huge factor here, but it feels like whoever starts at quarterback for the Bulldogs will have trouble keeping pace with LSU. The State defense doesn’t scare anybody.

LSU 38, MISSISSIPPI STATE 16 I’m not showing this much confidence in the Tigers because of the visitors’ pink locker room. The pick is based on State quarterback Kamario Taylor being limited or unable to play because of his foot injury. I don’t think any backup QB the Bulldogs turn to will be exceptionally productive against a riled-up LSU defense. If Taylor plays, I’ll still take LSU but in a much closer game, something like 34-23.

LSU 38, MISSISSIPPI STATE 20 hard to feel good picking this game, which hinges so heavily on the health of two players. Without Kamario Taylor and Fluff Bothwell, the Bulldogs don’t stand much of a chance of winning in Tiger Stadium, even if it’s a day game. If both players are healthy, this score will be very wrong, but I’m skeptical that the off week was enough to heal Taylor’s turf toe. That injury is more serious than it sounds.

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“It really seems to work,” a police spokesperArkansas, just to play in a stadium without a visiting locker room. son told The Telegraph in 2013. “They quieted “We just sat out on the field like high school down and go to sleep much more quickly in teams,” he said. a pink room.” Florida coach Jon Sumrall also wouldn’t Whether LSU can put its foes to sleep in its complain about the visiting locker-room ameown pink room remains to be seen, but the football findings from this colorful experinities in the SEC. “As long as there’s a toilet in each one of ment across the country are promising. them,” Sumrall said, “we’ve got a chance.” LSU is 2-0 and outscoring opponents — Still, Golding appreciates Ole Miss’ pink Texas A&M and McNeese State — 98-20 since locker room and acknowledges the studies implementing the pink visiting locker room. suggesting that color affects mood. Ole Miss is 17-1 at home since the start of the “That was kind of like that when I got here,” 2024 season and has won 14 straight games Golding said regarding the locker room, “but in Oxford. Iowa’s home record since 1979 is we’ll take any advantage we can get.” 207-89-3. For Kiffin, that’s the Against LSU, Texas name of the game — conA&M missed 14 tackles and McNeese missed 14 stantly searching for an more, according to Pro advantage to get any leg Football Focus. A reup on the competition. Whether it’s trying to rosduced sense of aggression could have contributed to ter NFL rookies after they those mistakes, but not all were cut in training camp, Southeastern Conference inviting the band to a precoaches are believers. season scrimmage to pre“I don’t know if it’s the pare for the home opener color of the locker room,” or painting the visiting Ole Miss coach Pete Goldlocker room pink, he has stopped at nothing looking ing said. “You’ve got to go for angles. on the road, and you got to Even if it’s ripped fight the crowd.” straight from Elle Woods’ Other SEC coaches also closet in “Legally Blonde.” downplayed the adverse “I think we did it two effects of getting ready for years ago (at Ole Miss) a game in a visiting locker and we never lost a home room, regardless of its colgame, and we haven’t lost or. They said SEC changing a home game since,” Kiffin rooms are typically nicer said. “Maybe it works.” than those in lower-level conferences, and other exEmail Koki Riley ternal factors such as the crowd and travel make road at koki.riley@ ALAINA BRUcE, theadvocate.com. For games harder. Interior designer at more LSU sports updates, Georgia coach Kirby Ritter Maher Architects Smart, when he was a Disign up for our newsletter at theadvocate.com/ vision II coach, rode an 18lsunewsletter hour bus to Arkadelphia,

You can look at the tone of color and the intensity of color and then when you put that into a built environment, which is what I do every day, then you really can control an emotional response. Which is crazy to think about.”

OFFENSIVE LEADERS LSU

Mississippi State

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482 259 208 166 99 35

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Winston Watkins Jackson Harris Trey’Dez Green Eugene Wilson Corey Barber Jr. Jayce Brown Phillip Wright Tre’ Brown Tyree Holloway

29 21 14 20 8 8 3 4 2

416 371 222 215 98 89 70 61 37

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40 16 13 11 9 7 5

574 259 218 184 96 58 50

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TJ Dottery 42 Ty Beneﬁeld 26 Princewill Umanmielen 26 Davhon Keys 24 Whit Weeks 23 PJ Woodland 19 Jhase Thomas 16 DJ Pickett 16 Tamarcus Cooley 15 Deuce Geralds 15 Jordan Ross 14 Stephiylan Green 11 Malik Blocton 10

22 11 14 14 10 11 10 14 11 10 5 4 4

20 15 12 10 13 8 6 2 4 5 9 7 6

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TEAM STATS OFFENSE PER GAME Yards gained: 524.9

OFFENSE PER GAME Yards gained: 487.0

Plays: 81.0

Plays: 71.2

PASS 311.2

RUSH 213.7

PASS 35.8

RUSH 45.2

Turnovers: 1.66

PASS 309.2

RUSH 177.8

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RUSH 37.4

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INTERCEPTIONS 1.33

FUMBLES 0.33

INTERCEPTIONS 0.80

FUMBLES 0.60

DEFENSE PER GAME Yards allowed: 250.7

DEFENSE PER GAME Yards allowed: 379.6

PASS 176.2

PASS 260.0

RUSH 74.5

Turnovers forced: 1.33

Turnovers forced: 0.80

INTERCEPTIONS 1.00

FUMBLES 0.33

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FUMBLES 0.40

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE State Mississippi St. (4-1) at LSU (4-2), 11 a.m. McNeese St. (2-4) at Northwestern St. (0-6), noon Grambling (4-2) at Alabama A&M (5-2), 2 p.m. Stephen F. Austin (6-0) at Nicholls (2-4), 3 p.m. Troy (3-2) at UL (4-2), 4 p.m. Lamar (5-1) at Southeastern Louisiana (3-3), 4 p.m. Louisiana Tech (3-2) at UL-Monroe (0-5), 7 p.m. Idle: Southern

Top 25 Saturday’s games

No. 1 Georgia (6-0) vs. Auburn (3-2), 2:30 p.m. No. 2 Notre Dame (6-0) at No. 8 BYU (5-0), 6:30 p.m. No. 3 Miami (5-0) vs. Florida St. (3-3), 6 p.m. No. 4 Ohio St. (5-1) at No. 5 Indiana (6-0), 11 a.m. No. 6 Alabama (5-1) at No. 14 Tennessee (5-1), 2:30 p.m. No. 7 Texas (4-1) vs. Florida (4-2), 11 a.m. No. 9 Ole Miss (4-1) vs. No. 13 Missouri (5-1), 2:30 p.m. No. 10 Texas Tech (5-0) vs. Arizona St. (3-2), 2:30 p.m. No. 11 Utah (5-0) at Colorado (2-3), 9:15 p.m. No. 12 UCLA (5-0) vs. Wisconsin (4-1), 6:30 p.m. No. 15 Kentucky (5-1) at Oklahoma (3-2), 6:30 p.m. No. 16 Mississippi St. (4-1) at No. 22 LSU (4-2), 11 a.m. No. 18 Oklahoma St. (4-1) at No. 20 Houston (5-1), 6:30 p.m. No. 21 Wake Forest (5-1) at California (3-3), 9:30 p.m. No. 24 SMU (4-1) vs. Virginia (4-2), 11 a.m. No. 25 Northwestern (4-1) at Michigan St. (2-4), 11 a.m.

Nation Tuesday’s games

SOUTH Middle Tennessee 33, Delaware 30 Jacksonville St. 27, FIU 24

Wednesday’s games

MIDWEST Missouri St. 24, Kennesaw St. 21 SOUTHWEST W. Kentucky 16, Sam Houston St. 3

Thursday’s games

SOUTH UAB 30, East Carolina 17 Georgia Southern 23, Old Dominion 15 SOUTHWEST Texas State 66, Colorado St. 27

Friday’s games

EAST Columbia (3-1) at Penn (2-2), n. SOUTH Memphis (5-1) at Tulane (2-3), n. Appalachian St. (3-2) at Coastal Carolina (2-4), n. MIDWEST Washington (3-3) at Purdue (3-3), n.

Saturday’s games

EAST CCSU (2-3) at Mercyhurst (1-5), 11 a.m. Duquesne (1-4) at Stonehill (2-4), 11 a.m. Rhode Island (3-3) at Yale (3-1), 11 a.m. FAU (4-1) at Army (3-2), 11 a.m. Brown (2-2) at Princeton (3-1), 11 a.m. Cincinnati (4-1) at West Virginia (3-3), 11 a.m. New Haven (1-5) at Robert Morris (3-3), 11 a.m. Hampton (1-5) at Sacred Heart (2-4), 11 a.m. Pittsburgh (5-1) at Boston College (2-3), 11 a.m. Rutgers (1-4) at Maryland (2-4), 11:30 a.m. Bryant (4-2) at Maine (1-5), noon Merrimack (2-4) at Dartmouth (1-3), noon Holy Cross (2-4) at Harvard (F4-0), noon Monmouth (NJ) (4-2) at New Hampshire (2-5), noon Charlotte (0-6) at Temple (2-4), noon Georgetown (1-4) at Colgate (4-2), noon UMass (4-2) at Buffalo (3-3), noon Lehigh (6-0) at Cornell (2-2), 1 p.m.

Albany (NY) (3-3) at Stony Brook (4-2), 1:30 p.m. Lafayette (1-4) at Bucknell (1-5), 2 p.m. Villanova (2-4) at Fordham (2-5), 2:30 p.m. Morehouse (0-1) at Howard (2-4), 2:30 p.m. LIU Brooklyn (2-5) at Wagner (1-5), 4 p.m. Louisville (3-3) at Syracuse (2-3), 6:30 p.m. SOUTH Charleston Southern (3-3) at Clemson (3-2), 11 a.m. Georgia St. (4-1) at James Madison (6-0), 11 a.m. Chicago State (1-5) at NC A&T (2-5), 11 a.m. Morehead St. (1-5) at Davidson (2-5), noon McNeese St. (2-4) at Northwestern St. (0-6), noon VMI (0-6) at Wofford (4-3), 12:30 p.m. Presbyterian (3-3) at Stetson (1-5), 1 p.m. Austin Peay (5-2) at West Georgia (1-5), 1 p.m. West Alabama (0-0) at West Florida (3-2), 1 p.m. E. Kentucky (2-4) at Tennessee Tech (5-1), 1:30 p.m. Bethune-Cookman (3-3) at MVSU (3-4), 2 p.m. Gardner-Webb (2-5) at UT Martin (2-4), 2 p.m. Florida A&M (2-4) at Jackson St. (5-1), 2 p.m. Grambling St. (4-2) at Alabama A&M (5-2), 2 p.m. Georgia Tech (2-3) at Virginia Tech (4-2), 2:30 p.m. North Carolina (3-2) at Duke (4-1), 2:30 p.m. Towson (0-7) at Campbell (5-1), 2:30 p.m. Stephen F. Austin (6-0) at Nicholls (2-4), 3 p.m. Troy (3-2) at Louisiana-Lafayette (4-2), 4 p.m. South Dakota (5-2) at Murray St. (1-5), 4 p.m. Lamar (5-1) at SE Louisiana (3-3), 4 p.m. Morgan St. (5-1) at Tennessee St. (1-5), 5:30 p.m. Arkansas (2-4) at Vanderbilt (3-3), 6 p.m. Arkansas St. (2-4) at Southern Miss. (1-4), 6 p.m. Kent St. (2-4) at South Florida (4-2), 6 p.m. Mercer (5-2) at Samford (1-5), 6 p.m. Abilene Christian (3-4) at North Alabama (4-2), 6 p.m. Louisiana Tech (3-2) at Louisiana-Monroe (0-5), 7 p.m. MIDWEST Kansas (2-3) at Kansas St. (3-2), 11 a.m. Ball St. (1-5) at Bowling Green (2-4), 11 a.m. Dayton (4-1) at Butler (5-1), noon

Marist (3-3) at Drake (2-4), noon W. Michigan (4-2) at Cent. Michigan (3-3), 12:30 p.m. S. Dakota St. (5-1) at North Dakota (5-2), 1 p.m. W. Illinois (3-3) at SE Missouri (3-3), 2 p.m. Lindenwood (Mo.) (1-4) at E. Illinois (2-4), 2 p.m. Toledo (4-2) at E. Michigan (4-3), 2:30 p.m. Penn St. (3-3) at Michigan (3-2), 2:30 p.m. Akron (1-5) at Miami (Ohio) (3-3), 2:30 p.m. Illinois St. (4-2) at S. Illinois (3-4), 3 p.m. N. Iowa (3-2) at Youngstown St. (5-2), 5 p.m. Nevada (2-3) at N. Dakota St. (5-1), 6 p.m. SOUTHWEST The Citadel (2-4) at Texas A&M (3-3), noon Alabama St. (3-3) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (3-2), 2 p.m. Alcorn St. (4-3) at Prairie View (2-5), 2 p.m. Tulsa (3-3) at Rice (1-5), 3:30 p.m. Cent. Arkansas (2-4) at Tarleton St. (6-0), 6 p.m. TCU (2-3) at Baylor (4-1), 6 p.m. UT Rio Grande Valley (3-3) at Incarnate Word (2-4), 6 p.m. East Texas A&M (2-4) at Houston Christian (3-3), 6 p.m. Navy (2-3) at UTSA (5-1), 7 p.m. San Jose St. (3-3) at UTEP (1-5), 8 p.m. FAR WEST Idaho (1-5) at Montana (5-2), 2 p.m. Idaho St. (4-2) at Weber St. (4-3), 2 p.m. N. Illinois (0-5) at Wyoming (3-3), 2:30 p.m. UNLV (4-2) at Air Force (4-1), 2:30 p.m. Valparaiso (3-3) at San Diego (2-4), 3 p.m. Washington St. (1-5) at Oregon St. (4-2), 5 p.m. Portland St. (2-4) at N. Arizona (5-2), 6 p.m. Montana St. (5-1) at E. Washington (2-5), 6 p.m. Elon (4-3) at Stanford (2-4), 6:30 p.m. Cal Poly (4-3) at N. Colorado (2-5), 7 p.m. UC Davis (4-2) at S. Utah (2-4), 7 p.m. Ohio (4-2) at Sacramento St. (1-5), 9 p.m. Fresno St. (4-2) at San Diego St. (2-4), 9:30 p.m. New Mexico (4-1) at Hawaii (1-5), 9:30 p.m. Nebraska (5-1) at Oregon (3-2), 10 p.m.

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THINGS TO WATCH IN WEEK 7 Who, what and where to keep an eye on in this week’s games around the nation

FAMILIARITY FOR OLE MISS, MIZZOU

No. 9 ole Miss and No. 13 Missouri each field statistical leaders that began their careers at the opposing school.The reunion of four showcase performers — Austin Simmons, cayden Lee and chris Graves of Missouri, and Kewan Lacy of ole Miss — serves as a major storyline on Saturday. Simmons is 107-of165 passing for 1,434 yards with 14 touchdowns. Lee has 42 receptions for 616 yards and five TDs. Lacy has been the ole Miss leading rusher for two seasons after starting his career at Missouri.

RISING IRISH FACE BYU’S TOUGH ‘D’

No. 2 Notre Dame has unleashed plenty of offensive firepower this season. But it has not faced a defense quite like No. 8 BYU’s — yet. These two units will take center stage in Saturday’s clash of unbeatens. So far, nobody has really been able to slow down an offense that ranks fourth in the FBS at 43.4 points per game. The cougars have been among the stingiest defenses in the nation, entering the game seventh nationally in total defense while allowing just 13.4 points.

REMATCH FOR BUCKEYES, HOOSIERS

No. 4 ohio State and No. 5 Indiana match up in the only top-five contest Saturday.The Buckeyes and hoosiers will be ready to grind things out to grab the inside track to a Big Ten title game berth in this rematch of last season’s league championship game.While Bo Jackson and Ja’Kobi Jackson have played well enough to help the Buckeyes average 165.7 yards rushing per game, the running game has been the telltale sign of success. ohio State has been outrushed in each of its past three losses, including last year’s 13-10 loss to the hoosiers. — Associated Press

SEC RATINGS BY KoKI RILEY 1. GEORGIA Record: 6-0, 4-0 Previous ranking: 3 Last week: beat Alabama 20-17 This week: vs.Auburn, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN) 2. ALABAMA Record: 5-1, 3-1 Previous ranking: 2 Last week: lost to Georgia 20-17 This week: at Tennessee, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ABc) 3. OLE MISS Record: 4-1, 2-1 Previous ranking: 4 Last week: beat vanderbilt 52-17 This week: vs. Missouri, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (SEc Network) 4. MISSISSIPPI STATE Record: 4-1, 2-1 Previous ranking: 8 Last week: off This week: at LSU, 11 a.m. Saturday (ESPN) 5. MISSOURI Record: 5-1, 2-1 Previous ranking: 6 Last week: beat Texas A&M 27-6 This week: at ole Miss, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (SEc Network) 6. TEXAS Record: 4-1, 1-1 SEc Previous ranking: 1 Last week: lost to oklahoma 27-24 This week: vs. Florida, 11 a.m. Saturday (ABc)

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LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt, left, throws a pass on oct. 3 at Tiger Stadium.

Bar is win or else for LSU The “WIN!” bar, a piece of the old goalpost that stood in Tiger Stadium for 30 years, is an artifact of LSU lore and college football tradition. Players touch it for good luck as they run out of the chute from the LSU locker room and into the seething cauldron that is Death Valley. It is such a meaningful, literal touchstone, edible replicas of it have been created, and a Scott Rabalais real metal reproduction (not edible) hangs in the College Football Hall of Fame. Saturday, as the Tigers tap the “WIN!” bar and head out onto the field to take on Mississippi State, they had better be prepared to back up that action with another action. If you follow football, you know what Lane Kiffin’s old boss — and later yet another in a long line of his detractors — late Raiders owner Al Davis was famous for saying: “Just win, baby.” Saturday, that phrase deserves an addendum for LSU: “Just win, baby … or else.” With four home wins balanced against a one-touchdown loss at Ole Miss and a one-point overtime comeuppance this past Saturday at Kentucky, the Tigers have put themselves in a fix. A tight spot. A peculiar circumstance. No. 22-ranked LSU must beat No. 16 Mississippi State in their 11 a.m. game on ESPN or the Tigers’ season is, essentially, over. A loss would drop LSU to 4-3 overall and more meaningfully than that, 1-3 in the Southeastern Conference. In the current “make it or else” world of the 12-team College Football Playoff, there is no more margin for error. Maybe this will be the year a 9-3 team makes the CFP, but LSU can’t bank on that. The Tigers must win. Then win and win

and win, probably needing to run the table on their final six games to get into the playoff. The Kentucky loss left LSU with virtually no contingency. Next year there will probably be a 24-team CFP field (ugh), but for now, it’s make it into that precious dozen or months of effort and preparation and practice are a wasted collective effort. There is good news for LSU amid all this all-or-nothing talk. The Tigers have played great at home, winning by an average score of 49-11, albeit against a cast of characters that include underperforming Clemson and Texas A&M. And, perhaps more relevant than that, Mississippi State is likely operating at a talent deficit. Mad dogs may come out with Englishmen in the midday sun, but some of the best Bulldogs who come out to fight the Fighting Tigers in this one could well be wearing walking boots. State quarterback Kamario Taylor leads the SEC in total offense (321.8 yards per game), total touchdowns (18) and passing touchdowns (17). But he’s been questionable all week with what is believed to be turf toe, a name that doesn’t do the painful injury (spraining or tearing of ligaments attaching the big toe to the foot) justice. “It might have a silly name,” former NFL star turned broadcaster Jason Kelce said. “Ain’t nothing silly about it.” Taylor, who said he grew up a Tiger fan in Mississippi but was put off when LSU tried to recruit him as a safety, went down two weeks ago against Alabama, the Bulldogs’ last game. Add to that an unspecified foot/ankle injury to top tailback Fluff Bothwell — pair him with LSU’s Roman Mothershed and you could start a list of AllAmerican caliber college football names — and State has major problems. Despite all that, Mississippi State comes in ranked ahead of LSU for the first time since 2000 and just the eighth time in their

117 prior meetings, most ever between LSU and any opponent. But if Taylor and Bothwell aren’t roaming the Bulldogs’ backfield, that dog won’t hunt an upset of the Tigers by a long shot. Unless … Look, you, me and the guys who painted the Tiger Stadium visitors’ locker room pink know that LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt has to stop … turning … over … the … bleeping … ball. If he doesn’t, he could give a short-handed State team reason for hope with short fields or, as in the Louisiana Tech game, a pick-six. Leavitt has committed nine turnovers through six games: eight interceptions and a fumble. He is the only FBS quarterback who has thrown at least one pick this season in every one of his games. Maybe some of it is truly bad luck — tipped passes, passes that should have been caught, etc. And Leavitt definitely has some strong stats in his column: He averages 8.65 yards per pass attempt and has 17 total touchdowns (10 passing, seven rushing), just one behind Taylor’s SEC-leading total. But LSU does not need to give State any reason to hope for an upset via any gift turnovers. The Tigers must be ruthless, like Grand Moff Tarkin in “Star Wars” (as movie villains go, it’s a name on par with turf toe), willing to “crush the rebellion with one swift stroke.” Throughout their history, State has always been there for LSU when LSU needed a win. The Tigers have dominated the series on the field 78-36-3, and since 1992 are 28-4 against the Bulldogs. At the end of Saturday, that streak better be 29-4. For LSU, any other prospect is too bitter to contemplate. It may just knock the “WIN!” bar off its perch.

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TV HIGHLIGHTS 11 a.m. Florida at Texas ABc 11 a.m. char. Southern at clemson AccN 11 a.m. FAU at Army cBSSN 11 a.m. virginia at SMU cW 11 a.m. Mississippi St. at LSU ESPN 11 a.m. Pitt at Boston college ESPN2 11 a.m. Georgia St. at JMU ESPNU 11 a.m. ohio St. at Indiana FoX 11 a.m. Kansas at Kansas St. FS1 11 a.m. N’western at Michigan St. NBcSN 11 a.m. cincinnati at West virginia TNT 11:30 a.m. Rutgers at Maryland BTN 2:30 p.m. Alabama at Tennessee ABc

Georgia Tech at virginia Tech AccN Penn St. at Michigan cBS UNLv at Air Force cBSSN N. Illinois at Wyoming cW Auburn at Georgia ESPN North carolina at Duke ESPN2 Arizona St. at Texas Tech FoX Missouri at ole Miss SEcN Illinois St. at S. Illinois ESPNU Washington St. at oregon St. USA Nevada at N. Dakota St. cBSSN Florida St. at Miami ESPN Arkansas at vanderbilt ESPN2

TcU at Baylor FS1 Notre Dame at BYU ABc Louisville at Syracuse AccN oklahoma St. at houston FoX Wisconsin at UcLA NBc Kentucky at oklahoma SEcN Navy at UTSA ESPNU Utah at colorado ESPN Fresno St. at San Diego St. cBSSN Wake Forest at california ESPN2 New Mexico at hawaii FS1 Nebraska at oregon FoX

7. LSU Record: 4-2, 1-2 Previous ranking: 5 Last week: lost to Kentucky 35-34 in oT This week: vs. Mississippi State, 11 a.m. Saturday (ESPN) 8. KENTUCKY Record: 5-1, 3-1 Previous ranking: 10 Last week: beat LSU 35-34 in oT This week: at oklahoma, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (SEc Network) 9. TENNESSEE Record: 5-1, 2-1 Previous ranking: 9 Last week: beat Arkansas 24-17 This week: vs.Alabama, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ABc) 10. FLORIDA Record: 4-2, 2-2 Previous ranking: 7 Last week: lost to South carolina 38-19 This week: at Texas, 11 a.m. Saturday (ABc) 11. OKLAHOMA Record: 3-2, 1-1 Previous ranking: 12 Last week: beat Texas 27-24 This week: vs. Kentucky, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (SEc Network) 12. SOUTH CAROLINA Record: 3-3, 1-3 Previous ranking: 14 Last week: beat Florida 38-19 This week: off 13. AUBURN Record: 3-2, 1-2 Previous ranking: 11 Last week: off This week: at Georgia, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN) 14. TEXAS A&M Record: 3-3, 1-3 Previous ranking: 14 Last week: lost to Missouri 27-6 This week: vs.The citadel, noon Saturday (SEc Network+) 15. VANDERBILT Record: 3-3, 0-3 Previous ranking: 13 Last week: lost to ole Miss 52-17 This week: vs.Arkansas, 6 p.m. Saturday (ESPN2) 16. ARKANSAS Record: 2-4, 0-3 Previous ranking: 16 Last week: lost to Tennessee 24-17 This week: at vanderbilt, 6 p.m. Saturday (ESPN2)

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Saints general manager Mickey Loomis speaks during a news conference on Jan. 7 at the Saints headquarters in Metairie as coach Kellen Moore looks on.

Losses looming over Loomis No one needs Kellen Moore and the New Orleans Saints to rally this season more than Mickey Loomis. As the Saints’ losses mount, so does the pressure on the longtime general manager. He’s become a lightning rod for fan frustration, and after gaining a temporary restraining order thanks to Tyler Shough’s emergence last season, he’s once again centered squarely in their crosshairs.

Right now, things are not looking good. The Saints are 1-4 as they prepare for an important twogame road trip to New York and Paris. They are coming off embarrassing home losses to the Falcons and Vikings and ﬁnd themselves in a rut deeper than a New Orleans sinkhole. Only 14 teams in the last 50 years have made the playoffs after starting 1-4. That gives the Saints a 5% chance.

Jeff Duncan The good news is the Saints have been here before. They have started 1-4 an incredible 13 times in club history. The bad news is they’ve failed to make the playoffs in each of

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why Saints fans should have confidence in him to pick the right coach, he confidently said, “Because we’ve done it before.” And while the selection of Payton was undoubtedly the best move Loomis ever made, it’s starting to look less like the rule and more like the exception. The more that Moore’s team struggles on the field, the more

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WNBA FINALS

Dream, Valkyries: Defense will reign

BY JON BLAU and ALYSE PFEIL

BY JANIE McCAULEY AP sportswriter

Staff writers

LSU athletic director Verge Ausberry expressed support Friday for the College Football Playoff’s pending expansion from 12 to 24 teams. Ausberry told the LSU board of supervisors during its regularly scheduled meeting that Southeastern Conference schools are disadvantaged in the current 12-team CFP because strength of schedule isn’t weighed heavily enough by the selection committee. The SEC requires its schools to play nine conference games while also scheduling a nonconference matchup with a Power Four school. The Big Ten doesn’t require its teams to play a Power Four team out of conference. “For the last three years, they won the national championship in football, and they have not played a Power Four ... school,” Ausberry told the board. “That’s why we feel that it helps us. It helps us financially. “The first two games would be on campuses. So you could have two playoff games on your campus here. Then there’d be a quarterfinal game, a semifinal game, then a championship game. So we feel that’s why the 24 was best for us.” According to reports, the move to 24 teams in the CFP would result in the elimination of conference championship games. Ausberry acknowledged there was a “back and forth” on how far to expand beyond the current 12team format. Doubling the field should, theoretically, allow SEC schools to snatch more playoff bids despite scheduling differences. “It was at 14 at one time. It was at 16 at one time,” Ausberry said. “We said, you know what, they don’t take the strength of conference into play (with fewer CFP slots). And we thought taking the strength of conference, in the SEC, was more beneficial to us.” LSU coach Lane Kiffin has expressed similar mis-

those prior instances. With an extra 17th game, it’s easier to recover now, but history and the odds are working against them. If Moore fails, so does Loomis. Their fates are inextricably entwined. Moore was Loomis’ handpicked coach, the guy he likened to Sean Payton, the one he turned to after the Dennis Allen debacle. In January 2025 when Loomis was asked

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LSU athletic director verge Ausberry watches an LSU basketball game against oklahoma on Feb. 28 at the Pete Maravich Assembly center.

“There’s a lot of good teams we think in the SEC that can miss out.” Ausberry referred to last year’s playoff, which didn’t feature 9-3 Texas or 10-2 Vanderbilt. The Longhorns lost a regular-season opener, 14-7, to Ohio State. “They got left out of it,” Ausberry said. “I think (24 teams) gives more opportunity for our teams, the teams we play, and the schedule we play … and I also think it’ll help us also schedule bigger games against other opponents like the Notre Dames or the Ohio States or the Michigans. “Because now you don’t have to worry about, OK, you lose a game, you might not make the playoffs. So now it affords you to play those tougher and bigger games.” The CFP has yet to ofﬁcially announce it has agreed with ESPN on an expansion to 24 teams, but it’s been widely reported that a deal is nearing completion. Ausberry conﬁrmed the expanded playoff should start next football season. “All indications we’re getting is 2027. That’s what we’re getting from the conference and everyone else,” Ausberry said. “So that’s where we got that from.”

SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State forward Kayla Thornton knows every basket in the WNBA Finals will be tough to come by, given how much the Valkyries and the Atlanta Dream take pride in making stops. The league’s two best defensive teams are about to square off for a championship in a best-of-seven series that could feature low scores. The Valkyries host Game 1 on Saturday with their raucous “Ballhalla” home crowd to back them on the biggest stage this second-year franchise has reached. “We’re the top two in the league,” Thornton said, “so I think it comes down to just the details and who wants it more.” Dream star Angel Reese loves to get involved in every play and wreak havoc, whether by forcing jump balls or making steals. The Dream has four of the top seven players in steals this postseason, led by Jordin Canada and Rhyne Howard at 2.2 per game. Gabby Williams of Golden State is averaging 1.7 steals in the playoffs, while Reese averages 1.6 steals. Atlanta is chasing its ﬁrst championship in franchise history after losing in the Finals three times in four years from 2010-13. Atlanta lost in the first round the past three seasons but enters this series on a 10-game winning streak

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dating to the final game before the break for the women’s FIBA World Cup. The Dream swept Washington and New York in the playoffs. “Nobody thought that we would make it to the Finals and we’re doing that, we’re achieving that,” Howard said. “We set out goals long before this year and it’s finally coming into fruition.” Dream forward Allisha Gray took part in a light practice Friday and will be a game-time decision for Game 1 on Saturday after missing the last two games of the semifinal series with an injured left ring finger. “We’re just waiting to see how my finger reacts to just the pace and intensity of the practice, and then we’ll know,” Gray said. Coach Karl Smesko said he’s hopeful Gray will play at some point in the series. Gray led the team in scoring in the regular season at 19 points per game and is the best outside shooter for Atlanta with 3.1 3-pointers per game. “It’s definitely hard because you want to be out there and compete with your teammates,” she said. “But I’ll say it just gave me time to rest my body and get healthy.”

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Chaos turns league upside down SWAC POWER RANKINGS

BY TOYLOY BROWN III Staff writer

Some weeks can become mundane in the course of a long football season. The top dawgs and bottom feeders of the league can stay in their respective spots as all remains in order. This was not the case during Week 6 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The games embodied the sports cliché that they are not won on paper as upsets became the norm. Here are The Advocate’s Week 7 SWAC football power rankings to attempt to make sense of a week that made little sense.

downs on the ground.

9. Southern Record: 3-4, 1-2 Previous ranking: 12 Last week: 28-14 win at Prairie View This week: Bye Extra points: The Jaguars spent one week in last place in the power rankings before earning a gutsy road win over Prairie View. Redshirt junior safety Herman Brister earned SWAC Defensive Player of the Week honors after he ﬁnished with 10 tackles and two interceptions for 56 yards, including a game-sealing pick-six. Southern has a bye before facing Texas Southern on the road.

1. Grambling Record: 4-2, 2-1 Previous ranking: 3 Last week: 45-38 win vs. Jackson State This week: 2 p.m. at Alabama A&M Extra points: Junior quarterback Jacobe Robinson earned SWAC Newcomer of the Week honors after he completed 17 of 21 passes for 212 yards, four touchdowns and another rushing touchdown. Grambling takes the top spot as Jackson State quarterback Jared Lockhart’s health is in question. The test for No. 1 comes immediately as it hits the road to take on Alabama A&M.

2. Jackson State Record: 5-1, 2-1 Previous ranking: 1 Last week: 45-38 loss at Grambling This week: 2 p.m. vs. Florida A&M Extra points: The Tigers lost their third straight game against Grambling this past weekend, but the larger concern is the health of quarterback Jared Lockhart, who “tweaked his lower back,” coach TC Taylor said on Monday’s SWAC media call. Lockhart, the thirdleading passer in the conference, saw a doctor on Monday.

3. Alabama A&M Record: 5-2, 2-1 Previous ranking: 2 Last week: 55-17 win vs. BethuneCookman This week: 2 p.m. vs. Grambling Extra points: Alabama A&M took care of business in rainy conditions against Bethune-Cookman. Redshirt junior Jarel Williams continued his pace as the secondleading receiver in the SWAC as he pulled down four catches for 133 yards receiving and two touchdowns against Bethune-Cookman. Next up is Grambling, a program the Bulldogs have beaten in three of the last four matchups.

4. Alcorn State Record: 4-3, 2-1 Previous ranking: 6 Last week: 63-7 win vs. Arkansas Baptist This week: 2 p.m. at Prairie View Extra points: If Grambling-Ala-

10. Prairie View Record: 2-5, 2-2 Previous ranking: 5 Last week: 28-14 loss vs. Southern This week: 2 p.m. vs. Alcorn State Extra points: The Panthers’ slump PhoTo BY ThoMAS B. ShEA continues as quarterback Tevin Southern wide receiver Damien henderson, left, takes off on a 69-yard Carter threw three interceptions in the loss to Southern. Head coach touchdown reception against Prairie view last Saturday at Panther Tremaine Jackson announced staff Stadium in Prairie view, Texas. Southern recorded its first conference win changes after the loss. Offensive of the season 28-14. coordinator Christopher Buckner and defensive backs coach Darbama A&M is the biggest SWAC ference. Now on a two-game win- ren Garrigan were dismissed, and game of the week, then Prairie ning streak, UAPB faces Alabama running backs coach Clifford Fedd View-Alcorn State is the most in- State, which is on a two-game los- became the new offensive coorditeresting one. It’s Prairie View’s ing streak. The Golden Lions have nator. The shifted staff makes its homecoming, and as Alcorn rises lost six of the last seven matchups debut this week for homecoming against Alcorn State. in the rankings, Prairie View has against the Hornets. plummeted. Braves quarterback 11. Florida A&M Jaylon Tolbert is the second-lead- 7. Alabama State Record: 2-4, 1-1 Record: 3-3, 1-2 ing FCS passer with 2,005 yards. Previous ranking: 11 Previous ranking: 4 This week, he faces the Panthers, Last week: 28-27 win at Alabama Last week: 28-27 loss vs. Florida who have the No. 6 pass defense in State A&M the SWAC. This week: 2 p.m. at Jackson State This week: 2 p.m. at Arkansas-Pine 5. Bethune-Cookman Extra points: The Rattlers earned Bluff Extra points: The Hornets lost on a their first conference win under Record: 3-3, 1-1 blocked field goal attempt on Oct. 9 head coach Quinn Gray, as redPrevious ranking: 7 Last week: 55-17 loss at Alabama with one of college football’s most- shirt sophomore wide receiver discussed highlights of the week Armand Burris pulled down four A&M This week: 2 p.m. at Mississippi against Florida A&M. Suddenly, catches for 216 yards and two Alabama State finds itself at the touchdowns. His two touchdowns Valley State Extra points: A week after turning bottom of the SWAC East division were the scores that gave FAMU heads by upsetting Alabama State, standings. The passing offense has the win, and the performance the Wildcats came crashing back suffered without starting quarter- earned him SWAC Offensive Playdown as they surrendered 335 back Andrew Body during the two- er of the Week honors. rushing yards and 504 yards of to- game losing streak. 12. Texas Southern tal offense to Alabama A&M. Sud8. Mississippi Valley State Record: 1-5, 0-3 denly, this week’s matchup against Previous ranking: 10 Mississippi Valley State is more Record: 3-4, 2-1 Last week: 38-34 loss vs. Missisinteresting as the Delta Devils Previous ranking: 9 have won back-to-back conference Last week: 38-34 win at Texas sippi Valley State games. Bethune-Cookman has won Southern This week: Bye four straight games against Valley. This week: 2 p.m. vs. BethuneExtra points: The Tigers have the Cookman worst defense in the SWAC, giv6. Arkansas-Pine Bluff Extra points: Don’t look now, but the ing up an average of 46.7 points Delta Devils are in third place in per game. Texas Southern gave up Record: 3-2, 1-1 the SWAC East division after back- 436 yards of total offense to MisPrevious ranking: 8 to-back wins. This is the first time sissippi Valley State. The Tigers Last week: Bye This week: 2 p.m. vs. Alabama State Mississippi Valley State has won now have a bye before hosting Extra points: The Golden Lions are three games before November in Southern for homecoming. The Tibeneficiaries of the SWAC’s chaos 20 years. Last game, quarterback gers have won three of the last five as they move up two slots during a Josh Brown threw for 266 yards games against the Jaguars. Senior bye week. UAPB has the No. 5 of- and two touchdowns while adding running back Athean Renfro is the fense and No. 6 defense in the con- another 100 yards and three touch- SWAC’s fourth-leading rusher.

Reese trusted coach Smesko to change shot BY TIM REYNOLDS AP basketball writer

Angel Reese can laugh about it now. She wasn’t laughing when it happened. The scene was an Atlanta Dream practice, earlier this season. Dream coach Karl Smesko — who came to the WNBA after a college background based on getting teams to shoot layups, 3-pointers, free throws and nothing else — stopped a drill and wouldn’t resume play until Reese made back-to-back shots from 3-point range. Reese was part embarrassed, part furious. Teammates cheered, and after a couple misses, Reese got the consecutive makes. Practice resumed. Smesko’s calculated risk was this: If Reese could step out of her comfort zone and handle pressure before her teammates in that moment, then she surely would be able to do the same in arenas with thousands of people

the start of her pro career, is now playing with renewed offensive confidence for a Dream team that opens the WNBA Finals against the Golden State Valkyries on Saturday. “Now it’s so easy, my confidence is through the roof,” Reese said. “When I shoot them, it just feels like practice.” Let’s be clear: Reese isn’t a knockdown shooter quite yet. She shot 19% from beyond the arc in the regular season. Smesko told her changing the shot would be difficult and the numbers proved him right. AP PhoTo BY DANIEL vARNADo He also told her that she would see improvement by the All-Star Atlanta Dream forward Angel break, and again, he was right. Reese sets up for a foul shot in the playoffs, albeit with against the New York Liberty during a Now small sample size, she’s shootGame 2 of the WNBA semifinals ing 39% from deep. And in the on oct. 7 in Atlanta. semifinals against New York, she hit four 3s in a three-game series watching. Sure enough, he was where the average Atlanta win right — and Reese, whose pen- margin was a mere five points. chant for missed layups has Every little bit mattered. “Start with the reality: This drawn waves of criticism over

wouldn’t have worked unless she was open to making signiﬁcant changes in her shot,” Smesko said. “Because of the labor agreement not happening until a couple of weeks before the season, we didn’t get a chance to work together until then. We needed a realistic plan.” Who’s willing to make drastic changes to her shot two weeks before a game is going to be played? I think a lot of people probably would have just waited for another offseason, but we decided to do it anyway.” Reese was dominant offensively in the three-game sweep of the Liberty: 20.7 points per game on 48% shooting from the ﬁeld and 89% from the foul line. She and Smesko work together constantly on the shot. They have a plan to keep doing so going into next season. And it shouldn’t surprise anyone if the league’s defensive player of the year turns into a legitimate, consistent 3-point threat in 2027.

Ravens QB Jackson ruled out for 2nd straight week

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Lamar Jackson is out again this weekend because of an ankle injury. This year, there’s no doubt who his primary backup is. Tyler Huntley will have another chance to shine in relief of Jackson after the two-time MVP quarterback was ruled out for Sunday’s game at Cleveland. Huntley won both his starts for the Ravens a season ago, and he also led Baltimore to an overtime win at Atlanta last weekend. The Ravens ruled out Jackson, center Cam Jurgens (concussion), tight end Matthew Hibner (hand) and defensive tackle Broderick Washington (ankle) for this weekend. When Jackson was hurt in Week 4 last season, the Ravens started Cooper Rush and lost their next two games, falling to 1-5.

Bucks move home opener to avoid World Series conflict

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks are going to have an afternoon tipoff for their Oct. 23 home opener with the Chicago Bulls to avoid a direct conﬂict with Game 1 of the World Series, which is taking place in Milwaukee that evening. The Bucks announced Friday their home opener would take place at 3 p.m. rather than 7 p.m. The Milwaukee Brewers will be hosting either the Cleveland Guardians or Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of the World Series that night. The Brewers had earned home-field advantage throughout the playoffs by having the best regular-season record in the major leagues, and they clinched their ﬁrst World Series berth since 1982 on Thursday by completing an NL Championship Series sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Jodar to face Medvedev in Shanghai Masters semis

SHANGHAI — Rafael Jodar became the youngest semifinalist in Shanghai Masters history on Friday and will next meet Daniil Medvedev. The 20-year-old Spaniard rallied to a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win against Casper Ruud, while Medvedev overcame American Tommy Paul 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. It was the fourth straight match at the ATP Masters 1000 event in which Jodar had mounted a comeback from losing the first set. Jodar powered to victory in 2 hours 20 minutes by breaking Ruud’s serve five times in the second and third sets. Medvedev, a former Shanghai Masters champion, looked in trouble when losing the second set but recovered to claim victory in 2 hours 9 minutes.

Djokovic accepts wild-card invite to Swiss Indoors

BASEL, Switzerland — Novak Djokovic will bid for a 103rd career title after being handed a wild-card entry for the Swiss Indoors in Basel on Friday. The 24-time major champion last played at the tournament in 2009. The ATP tour announced his participation in a post on X, along with the words “17 years on ...” Play begins at the ATP 500 event on Oct. 26. The 39-year-old Serb won the China Open this month, and needs one more title to tie Roger Federer on the all-time list. American Jimmy Connors leads with 109 in the Open era. The wild-card invite comes after the Six Kings Slam, an exhibition tournament in Saudi Arabia, was postponed until late December.

Southern Nazarene safety has died after injury in game

BETHANY, Okla. — Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma announced on Thursday that sophomore safety Tyler Ulrich has died ﬁve days after suffering what the school called a “traumatic injury” during a game against Ouachita Baptist. Ulrich was 21. The Division II private school based in Bethany, Oklahoma, did not reveal the cause of death or the nature of Ulrich’s injury. “It is with heavy hearts that we share the loss of our SNU football player, Tyler Ulrich,” the SNU Athletics said in a post on its X account. “This loss is deeply felt across our campus. Our hearts are with his family, friends, teammates, and everyone who knew him,” the post read. “We ask that you join us in lifting them up in prayer.”

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WR Olave back at Saints practice but questionable for N.Y. SAINTS NOTEBOOK

BY LUKE JOHNSON and MATTHEW PARAS Staff writers

Chris Olave returned to the practice ﬁeld Friday, but he still carries an injury designation ahead of Sunday against the New York Giants. Olave is listed as questionable after missing a pair of practices this week with an illness. He was limited in Friday’s practice. “Any time you come off a sickness, you’ve just got to get back into things,” coach Kellen Moore said. “I thought he did some good things out there.” Linebacker Kaden Elliss (calf) and edge defender Anfernee Jennings (knee) will miss their third consecutive game with their respective injuries. Elliss has not practiced since the Saints’ loss to the Las Vegas Raiders. Moore said Elliss will “potentially” travel with the team to Paris. “After the (Raiders) game, it became something more,” Moore said. “Sometimes these things just take a little time, you’ve just got to navigate it week to week. He’s do-

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continued from page 5c fans distrust Loomis’ ability to lead the Saints out of the abyss. Loomis received a mulligan after Allen was dismissed in 2024. Even in an organization as insular and hidebound as the Saints, it would be a surprise if he were given the opportunity to hire a fourth head coach. That would be harder to sell to Saints fans than those ridiculous $16 Michelob Ultras. Loomis is embedded into the organizational hierarchy deeper than any other GM in the league. He’s such an established member of the inner circle that he’s one of the executors of the Benson estate. Only a year ago, Saints owner Gayle Benson dismissed questions about Loomis’ job security, saying calls to ﬁre him were “ridiculous.” “(He) does a great job,” Benson said in November. “Mickey’s been one of the top NFL general managers.

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continued from page 5c The Valkyries are the fastest expansion team to reach the WNBA Finals by getting there in the second seasons, one year faster than Atlanta did in 2010. They did it by eliminating the reigning champion Las Vegas Aces in the semiﬁnals. Other expansion teams have had quick success like Golden State. The NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights reached the Stanley Cup Final in their inaugural season in 2017-18, and the Chicago Fire won the Major League Soccer title in its ﬁrst season in 1998. But the Valkyries have a chance to set a record. The fastest expansion champion in the modern era for the WNBA, NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB was the Milwau-

ing everything he can, and when he’s ready, he’ll be ready to rock and roll.” Running back Alvin Kamara (back), defensive lineman Nathan Shepherd (illness), defensive back Lorenzo Styles (knee) and long snapper Zach Wood (calf) are all questionable for Sunday. Wood has been on injured reserve, but he’s been a full participant in practice this week.

Cordial visit Saints owner Gayle Benson attended practice Friday, hugging Moore days after she delivered a critical speech that panned the team’s 1-4 start as “unacceptable.” Benson rolled up on a golf cart, with quarterback Tyler Shough and defensive end Cam Jordan coming over to greet her. After that, she got out to interact with Moore and the two exchanged pleasantries for about 30 seconds. The interaction ended with a hug before Benson went back to the cart. Benson’s visit came after her speech in which she called on Moore and the Saints to “prepare better, execute consistently and

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Saints wide receiver chris olave runs with the ball against the Minnesota vikings on Sunday at the caesars Superdome. olave missed two practices this week with an illness but returned to practice on Friday. correct the mistakes that are costing us games.” The comments put focus — if not pressure — on Moore’s job status, though the coach indicated he had no problem with the criticism. Moore said Benson pops into practice occasionally and the two see each other throughout the week. He said that Friday wasn’t the ﬁrst time that he had seen her since her speech. “It’s always good to see Mrs. B,”

He’s a great guy.” Nevertheless, it’s becoming more and more difficult to, ahem, look beyond the results. The Saints have missed the playoffs for five consecutive years and will need an improbable rally to turnaround this year to avoid making it six straight. That would make it the longest playoff drought since 1993-99, when the Saints missed the postseason for seven consecutive seasons. That skid led to a complete housecleaning of the front office and coaching staff by owner Tom Benson. Will Gayle Benson be willing to do the same? She seemed to say as much earlier this week. “I am committed to making the decisions necessary to improve this team,” Benson said at the Greater New Orleans Quarterback Club. ”As the owner, the responsibility does start with me. I will not make excuses, and I will not accept this level of performance as our standard.” Unfortunately, this kind of season has been the standard for the Saints under

Loomis without Payton and Drew Brees. In his eight-plus seasons as GM before and after the Payton-Brees era, his Saints teams are a combined 56-71 for a .440 winning percentage. In that span, they have never made the playoffs. This season would make it 0 for 9. Loomis has tried several things to right the ship. He’s changed head coaches, signed and drafted different franchise quarterbacks, and hired former GMs such as Dave Ziegler, Randy Mueller and Thomas Dimitroff as sounding boards and outside voices. So far, none of it has worked well enough to get the Saints back on track. The Saints pride themselves on their continuity. They like to compare themselves to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the league’s model for small-market success and stability. The Steelers have employed only four head coaches and general managers in the last half century. The Carolina Panthers, meanwhile, have run through four head coaches

kee Bucks, who won the NBA Finals in their third season in 1970-71. The magnitude of the moment doesn’t seem to bother Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase, who was on Becky Hammon’s Las Vegas staff when the Aces won back-toback titles in 2022 and 2023. Nakase served as an assistant for the champion U.S. team in last month’s FIBA World Cup in Berlin. “It’s not just me. I don’t feel alone in this at all,” she said. “I feel like this is going to be a collective effort about us putting all of our high IQs together.” The Valkyries have plenty of championship-tested players who can offer some insight. Thornton won it all with the Liberty in 2024. Kiah Stokes earned rings with the Aces under Nakase in 2022 and 2023, then another last year. Cecilia Zandalasini won a title with

Minnesota in 2017. The Dream has three players who have won WNBA titles with DeWanna Bonner doing it in 2009 and 2014 with Phoenix; Canada in 2018 and 2020 with Seattle; and Shatori WalkerKimbrough in 2019 with Washington. Many of Golden State’s stars have been cast off by other teams, giving them more reason to want to show what they can do. “A lot of people on our team have just felt undervalued or unappreciated or if you’re not the main star on your team you kind of get overlooked,” Golden State center Kiah Stokes said. “A lot of players have that mindset so coming to a team where it’s kind of like a clean slate, Natalie, she’s not going to BS you. If you don’t do your job, you’re not going to play.”

Moore said. “She’s always been Alan Herron in a corresponding move. Throughout the week, the Saints great and she’s always supportive.” vehemently denied the idea that Price returns they released Price as a way of Not long after he fumbled the sending a message to the team opening kickoff of the second half about accountability. Price has been with the team in a loss to the Minnesota Vikings, the Saints waived defensive back since last season, but he made his Jayden Price. On Friday, he was back NFL debut with the Saints this seawith the club. son, playing exclusively on special New Orleans brought Price back teams. He’s handled 10 kick reon the practice squad, releasing turns while averaging 22.8 yards undrafted rookie offensive tackle per return.

and three general managers in the eight-plus seasons since owner David Tepper took control. In that span, they have one division title and a playoff appearance to show for it, and that was last season when they “won” the woeful NFC South at 8-9. If the Saints were enjoying similar success to the Steelers, it would be easier to accept the comparisons. In the 24 seasons since 2002, the Steelers have suffered just one losing season, have made the playoffs 16 times and won two Super Bowls.

The Saints have failed to make the playoffs and have suffered losing seasons in three of the last four years while competing in the worst division in football. They — along with the Colts, Falcons and Jets — are one of four teams to not make the playoffs since 2020. Loomis has maintained his characteristically low proﬁle throughout the start of the season, but he is scheduled to speak to reporters next week in Paris. Benson was spot on when she said, “There’s a great deal of football ahead of us,

but our response must show up on the field. Words will not restore our fans’ confidence. Our performance must do that.” Moore and the Saints still have time to turn things around. It’s only Week 6, and the NFC South is as mediocre as ever. It’s too early to bury the Saints. But the hole will get deeper and the odds longer if they lose to the Giants on Sunday in New York. If that happens, the postgame flight to Paris will be a long one. And the leash on Moore and Loomis will get shorter.

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THE VARSITY ZONE WEEK 7 FOOTBALL REPORT Thursday’s scores Acadiana Renaissance 43, McMain 8 Albany 28, Loranger 20 Alexandria 48, Pineville 10 Amite 42, Independence 6 Baker 37, Belaire 6 Brother Martin 36, John Curtis Christian 28 Captain Shreve 40, Natchitoches Central 27 Crowley 26, Mamou 12 DeRidder 31, South Beauregard 21 Easton 22, East Jefferson 6 Grand Lake 49, Merryville 12 H.L. Bourgeois 53, General Trass (Lake Providence) 2 Higgins 21, Haynes Academy 6 Jennings 48, Westlake 7 Lafayette Christian Academy 43, Franklin 6 Lake Arthur 42, Kinder 0 Lake Charles College Prep 39, Sterlington 38 Oakdale 28, Elton 24 Ouachita Christian 65, Lincoln Preparatory School 12 Patrick Taylor 27, Landry/Walker 26 Plaquemine 55, Tara 0 Rayne 26, LaGrange 0 Sacred Heart 49, North Central 14 South Terrebonne 37, Assumption 29 Sumner 48, Bogalusa 12

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Madison Prep quarterback Jacobe Shannon sprints to the end zone as Brusly middle linebacker Ryan Diamond gives chase on Friday at Memorial Stadium. Shannon accounted for three TDs in Madison Prep’s 53-20 win.

CHARGING ON Madison Prep rolls past Brusly, stays unbeaten in 6-4A

BY CHRIS CHAPPLE contributing writer

Madison Prep Academy freshman quarterback Jacobe Shannon rushed for two touchdowns and passed for another to help lead the Chargers to a 53-20 victory over Brusly on Friday night at Memorial Stadium. Madison Prep, ranked sixth in Class 4A, had four players make interceptions in Chris Barber, Levaar Knighten, Jakobe Sanders and Landon Johnson. Madison Prep (5-2, 4-0 in District 6-4A) scored on three straight possessions in the second quarter to take a 26-7 halftime lead and added two scores to open the second half to pull ahead 40-7. Brusly (2-5, 1-3) scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter as the two teams combined for 32 points. “We played well as a team tonight, but we’ve just got to ﬁnish better at the end,” MPA coach Landry Williams said. “Hats off to Brusly for competing to the end. Our defense really responded with the four interceptions. We have a few things to clean up. My guys are working hard.” “Madison Prep is a good football team and we knew we couldn’t make mistakes,” Brusly coach Hoff Schooler said. “We talked to them at halftime, and we played better in the second half.” Shannon opened the scoring with a 17-yard run. Brusly tied it at 7-7 as Jamar McDowell caught an 8-yard TD from Payton Mason with 1:40 left in the ﬁrst quarter. That drive was set up by a 5-yard punt that Brusly took over at the MPA 10-yard line. MPA scored on three straight possessions. Shannon scored on a 9-yard run, Shannon tossed a 28yard TD pass to Landon Johnson and Harlem Turner scored on a 5-yard run with 3:40 left in the second quarter.

Brusly linebacker Justin Pierson tackles Madison Prep running back harlem Turner on Friday night. Madison Prep 53, Brusly 20 BHS MPA First downs 12 24 Rushes-yards 15-18 44-348 Passing yards 239 118 Passes CAI 14-36-4 8-19-0 Punts avg 3-24 3-20.3 Fumbles-lost 1-0 2-0 Penalties-yards 11-82 11-93 Brusly 7 0 0 13 — 20 Madison Prep 7 19 8 19 — 53 MPA — Jacobe Shannon 17 run (Mason Olinde kick) BHS — Jamar McDowell 9 pass from Payton Mason (Revinder Mendez kick) MPA — Shannon 9 run (Olinde kick) MPA — Landon Johnson 28 pass from Shannon (kick failed) MPA — Harlem Turner 5 run (pass failed) MPA — J’on Proﬁt 3 run (Adonnice Skinner pass from Shannon) MPA — Turner 17 run (pass failed) BHS — Tremon Lemar 11 pass from Mason (kick failed) MPA — Jakobe Sanders 22 run (kick blocked) BHS — McDowell 68 pass from Mason (Mendez kick) MPA — Roy Hawkins 11 run (Olinde kick)

Turner added a 17-yard rushing TD with 7:48 left in the fourth quarter. J’on Proﬁt had a 3-yard scoring running. Mason had two scoring TD passes in the fourth quarter. He connected with Tremon Lemar for

11 yards with 6:12 left and with 68 yards with Jamar McDowell with 3:38 remaining. Brusly recovered an onside kick in the fourth quarter. Shannon completed 8 of 19 passes for 118 yards. Landon Johnson had six catches for 98 yards. Shannon also rushed seven times for 72 yards. Profit led the Chargers in rushing with 128 yards on 18 carries. Turner added 74 yards on 10 carries. Mason completed 14 of 36 passes for 239 yards with three TDs and four interceptions. Cam Carter had four catches for 63 yards. Lemar had four catches for 65 yards. McDowell had five catches for 115 yards. Both teams battled windy conditions at the game. Madison Prep’s team tent was swept by the wind from the field into the stands. Brusly also had a 6-yard punt. Madison Prep had won its first three district games by a 159-0 margin.

ALCS Game 4 rained out Rays, Guardians to resume series Saturday night

Catholic-Poine Coupee 51, Varnado 14 Catholic High 70, Zachary 38 St. Amant 27, Denham Springs 21 St. Michael 42, McKinley 0 Capitol at East Iberville Broadmoor at Scotlandville Ascension Christian 31, White Castle 20 East Ascension 49, Live Oak 24 Madison Prep 53, Brusly 20 West Feliciana 49, Port Allen 0 Southern Lab at North Iberville Istrouma 12, Glen Oaks 6 Kaplan 27, Parkview Baptist 6 University 66, Collegiate Baton Rouge 0 Opelousas 33, Livonia 0 Woodlawn 46, Liberty 14 Dunham 35, Donaldsonville 6 East Feliciana 50, Helix Mentorship 6 Dutchtown 20, Tioga 16 Prairieville 26, Walker 7 Lutcher 35, St. James 20 West Feliciana 49, Port Allen 0 Episcopal 42, Slaughter Charter 8 Northeast at Springﬁeld Ascension Catholic 26, St. Martin’s Episcopal 21 Capitol at East Iberville Kentwood 53, Central Private 0

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Academy 8 Union Parish 27, Richwood 6 University 66, Collegiate Baton Rouge 0 Vandebilt Catholic 46, Berwick 0 Vidalia 18, Rayville 8 Vinton 42, DeQuincy 3 Welsh 56, Washington-Marion 13 West Feliciana 49, Port Allen 0 West Monroe 49, Ouachita Parish 0 West St. Mary 26, Delcambre 22 Westminster Christian (LAF) 48, Central Catholic 7 Willow School 43, Discovery 0 Wossman 54, West Ouachita 51

Catholic 70, Zachary 38 Team Catholic Zachary First Downs 14 19 Yards Rushing 31-409 42-292 Yards Passing 275 205 Passes (C-A-HI) 11-16 13-27-3 Punts-avg. 2-37.5 3-131 Fumbles-lost 1-0 1-1 Penalties-yards 11-90 9-75 SCORING SUMMARY Catholic 20 29 21 0 —70 Zachary 7 24 7 0 —38 CHS: Jayden Miles 25 run (Graham Nassif kick) ZHS: Jeremey Patton 28 run (Evan Lopez kick) CHS: Camden Estep 16 pass to Jude Chamberlain (Nassif kick) CHS: Miles 75 run (Nassif kick no good) ZHS: Patton 1 run (Lopez kick) CHS: Miles 2 run (Estep pass failed) ZHS: Patton 25 run (Lopez kick) CHS: Estep 21 pass to Chamberlain (Nassif kick) ZHS: Patton 52 run (Lopez kick) CHS: Nassif 42 ﬁeld goal CHS: Greg Williams 77 run (Nassif kick) CHS: Miles 10 run (Huckleberry Finley pass failed) ZHS: Lopez 21 ﬁeld goal ZHS: Patton 3 run (Lopez kick) CHS: Miles 49 run (Nassif kick) CHS: Miles 14 run (Nassif kick) CHS: Williams 21 run (Nassif kick)

Dutchtown 20, Tioga 16 Team Tioga DHS First Downs 12 11 Yards Rushing 259 164 Yards Passing 17 95 Passes (C-A-HI) 3-11-2 5-13-1 Punts-avg. 4-30.3 5-35.4 Fumbles-lost 1-1 2-1 Penalties-yards 9-80 5-53 SCORING SUMMARY Tioga 3 7 6 0 —16 Dutchtown 0 14 0 6 —20 THS: Ethan Bridges 22 FG DHS: Ethan Odom 2 run (Cade Foley kick) DHS: Brock Black 8 run (Foley kick) THS: Jackson Tarver 1 run (Bridges kick) THS: David Garret 28 pass from Ronnie Stevens (kick blocked) DHS: Derrick Walker-Vice 28 pass from Odom (run failed)

Baker 37, Belaire 6 Team Belaire Baker First Downs 8 18 Yards Rushing 26-60 24-152 Yards Passing 68 161 Passes (C-A-HI) 9-20-1 13-20-1 Punts-avg. 4-108 n/a Fumbles-lost 2-0 3-2 Penalties-yards 18-160 3-40 SCORING SUMMARY Belaire 0 6 0 0 —6 Baker 6 23 8 0 —37 BAK: Steve Claiborne 8 pass to Mordakye Singleton (Claiborne pass failed) BEL: Keontre Brothers 3 run (John Kinchen run failed) BAK: Jessie Green 1 run (Green run) BAK: Claiborne 32 pass to Orlando Scott (Green run) BAK: Claiborne 28 pass to Scott (Victor Lobo kick) BAK: Damion Jones 9 run (Green run)

St. Amant 27, Denham Springs 21 Team SAHS DSHS First Downs 20 11 Yards Rushing 36-162 29-82 Yards Passing 121 84 Passes (C-A-HI) 9-13-0 7-15-1 Punts-avg. 2-36.5 4-41.8 Fumbles-lost 3-2 0-0 Penalties-yards 14-153 10-85 SCORING SUMMARY St. Amant 0 7 20 0 —27 Denham Springs 7 7 0 7 —21 DSHS: Jaylen Williams 21 pass from Braylon Collins (Joseph Herrara kick) DSHS: Jeremy Williams 5 pass from Collins (Herrera kick) SAHS: Jourden Hickerson 7 run (Paxton LeBlanc kick) SAHS: Hickerson 1 run (LeBlanc kick) SAHS: Kayden Thodile 31 pass from Brock Koontz (kick failed) SAHS: Dreyden Talbot 13 run (LeBlanc kick) DSHS: Andre Adams 25 run (Herrera kick)

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Associated Press CLEVELAND — Game 4 of the American League Championship Series was postponed because of rain Friday night. The Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians will resume their series Saturday at 7 p.m., with Game 5 on Sunday at Progressive Field and Game 6 in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Monday if necessary. The Guardians have a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series after Petey Halpin’s two-run homer propelled them to a 3-2 victory in Game 3 on Thursday. It is the ﬁrst time an ALCS game has been postponed

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Fans wait in the rain before Game 4 of the ALcS between the Guardians and the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday in cleveland. since 2019, when the New York Yankees hosted the Houston Astros. Cleveland had planned a bullpen game for Friday, with Shawn Armstrong being the opener. Guardians manager Stephen Vogt could change plans and go with Foster Griffin on Saturday. The left-hander started Game 1 on Monday and allowed two runs in ﬁve innings.

Tampa Bay was slated to go with Nick Martinez. The teams might play the ﬁnal four games without a day off, culminating in a potential Game 7 on Tuesday. That could be welcome news for the Milwaukee Brewers, who have a week off before they open the World Series at home on Oct. 23 against the Cleveland-Tampa Bay winner.

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Thursday’s Games

Denver 17, Seattle 14, OT

Sunday’s Games

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

Monday’s Games

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

Late Thursday Denver 17, Seattle 14, OT

Seattle 3 0 0 11 0 — 14 Denver 0 14 0 0 3 — 17 First Quarter Sea—FG Myers 55, 6:31. Second Quarter Den—Dobbins 4 run (Lutz kick), 12:52. Den—Harvey 1 run (Lutz kick), 5:15. Fourth Quarter Sea—Holani 1 run (Shaheed pass from Darnold), 5:41. Sea—FG Myers 34, :03. First Overtime Den—FG Lutz 53, 4:53.

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

Friday, Oct. 16: Game 4: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, ppd. Saturday, Oct. 17: Game 4: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18: Game 5: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 4 p.m. x-Monday, Oct. 19: Game 6: Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. x-Tuesday, Oct. 20: Game 7: Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

National League Milwaukee 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0

Sunday, Oct. 11: Game 1: Milwaukee 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 1 Monday, Oct. 12: Game 2: Milwaukee 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 4 Wednesday, Oct. 14: Game 3: Milwaukee 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 2 Thursday, Oct. 15: Game 4: Milwaukee 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 4

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Tennis WTA Dongfeng Voyah Wuhan Open Results Friday

At Optics Valley International Tennis Centre Wuhan, China Purse: $4,088,211 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Results Friday from Dongfeng Voyah Wuhan Open at Optics Valley International Tennis Centre (seedings in parentheses):

Women’s Singles

Quarterﬁnals Sonay Kartal, Britain, def. Elina Svitolina (5), Ukraine, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. Maja Chwalinska (16), Poland, def. Maria Sakkari, Greece, 6-0, 3-6, 7-5.

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Quarterback carson Wentz is sacked by Denver Broncos outside linebacker Jonathon cooper during the first half of a game on Jan. 5, 2025, in Denver.

Cooper back for Broncos, but NFL’s conduct review not over BY ARNIE STAPLETON AP pro football writer

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos pass rusher Jonathon Cooper was removed Friday from the commissioner’s exempt list, which had kept him out of the team’s ﬁrst six games. He’ll be eligible to play in the Broncos’ next game at Arizona on Oct. 25. The league said its review of Cooper’s conduct for potential violation of its personal conduct policy after a pair of domestic violence arrests in June remains ongoing and is unaffected by Cooper’s status change. Cooper faces numerous charges, including one of felony strangulation of his thengirlfriend. His trial has been scheduled for March 2-4. “Playing in the NFL and representing the Denver Broncos is a privilege I do not take for granted,” Cooper posted on Instagram shortly after his reinstatement. “I’m grateful to ownership, my teammates, coaches and everyone in the organization for their support as well as Commis-

sioner (Roger) Goodell and the league for the opportunity to return. “Over the last several months, I’ve spent a lot of time working to better myself. That work will continue,” Cooper added. “My focus is on being the best person, father, teammate and member of this community I can be. I will show that commitment through my actions every day.” Cooper was placed on the exempt list on Aug. 30 and missed Denver’s first six games. The Broncos are coming off a 17-14 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night that improved their record to 4-2. Cooper, 28, was arrested on June 4 following an argument and physical confrontation with his thengirlfriend that eventually resulted in a felony charge of strangulation. He was arrested again a week later after violating a protection order by trying to contact the woman, according to the arrest afﬁdavit. If Cooper is ultimately suspended by the league, his six-week absence would

essentially be time already served up to six games. But he would have to repay any game checks he received while on the exempt list because suspended players can’t be paid. If any suspension exceeds six games, he’d have to miss more games. Cooper, who’s making $12 million this season, had been allowed to attend meetings and work out at team headquarters but was ineligible to practice during his time on the exempt list. He can resume practicing under a one-week roster exemption when the team returns from a long weekend next week. Cooper’s replacement in the starting lineup, Jonah Ellis, appeared to suffer a potentially serious injury in the final minute of regulation Thursday night when he was rushing Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold. Ellis’ right leg bent back awkwardly on the play and he hopped to the sideline, never putting any weight on his right leg. The Broncos have provided no updates on the status of Ellis, who had one of ﬁve sacks of Darnold on Thursday night.

Women’s Doubles

Quarterﬁnals Nicole Melichar-Martinez, United States, and Cristina Bucsa (5), Spain, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Jelena Ostapenko (4), Latvia, walkover.

Transactions BASKETBALL

(Best-of-5)

No. 2 Golden State vs. No. 4 Atlanta

Saturday, October 17: Atlanta at Golden State, 2:30 p.m. Monday, October 19: Atlanta at Golden State, 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 21: Golden State at Atlanta, 7 p.m. Saturday, October 24: Golden State at Atlanta, noon x-Monday, October 26: Atlanta at Golden State, TBA x-Thursday, October 29: Golden State at Atlanta, TBA x-Saturday, October 31: Atlanta at Golden State, TBA

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

American League

(TBS, TruTV, HBO Max)

Cleveland 2, Tampa Bay 1

Monday, Oct. 12: Game 1: Cleveland 7, Tampa Bay 3 Tuesday, Oct. 13: Game 2: Tampa Bay 3, Cleveland 1 Thursday, Oct. 15: Game 3: Cleveland 3, Tampa Bay 2

National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS — Re-signed G Payton Pritchard to a veteran extension. CHARLOTTE HORNETS — Waived G Pat Connaughton.

FOOTBALL

National Football League NFL — Removed Denver OLB Jonathon Cooper and Green Bay RB Josh Jacobs from the commissioner’s exempt list. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Activated RB Trevor Etienne from injured reserve. DETROIT LIONS — Placed LB Devin White, OL Ben Bartch and WR Tom Kennedy on injured reserve. INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released WR Darius Slayton. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed CB Jayden Price to the practice squad. Released OT Alan Herron from the practice squad. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Placed RB Will Shipley on injured reserve. Signed QB Joe Milton to the active roster.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Placed F Oskar Back on injured reserve. FLORIDA PANTHERS — Loaned G Cooper Black to Charlotte (AHL). MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned D Carson Lambos to Iowa (AHL).

SATURDAY’S STATE COLLEGE CAPSULES McNeese State at Northwestern State WHEN: Noon Saturday WHERE: Turpin Stadium (15, 971), Nachitoches ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: McNeese 2-4, 1-2 Southland; NW State 0-6, 0-3 LATEST LINE: McNeese by 211/2 (551/2) SERIES: McNeese leads 52-22-1 LAST MEETING: McNeese won 50-3 in 2025. NOTES: McNeese, coming off an open date after a 63-14 loss to LSU, got a standout performace from Jamaal Levi against the Tigers. Levi scored on a 43-yard screen pass and added a TD on a 64-yard reverse run. ... Demons QB Zach Wilcke has thrown for 816 yards with seven TDs and two interceptions. ... NW State has allowed an average of 50.5 points per game. ... The Demons’ 17-game losing streak is the longest in Division I college football (FCS and FBS). ... Jake Strong is expected to start at QB for the Cowboys.

Grambling at Alabama A&M

WHEN: 2 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Louis Crews Stadium (21,000), Huntsville, Ala. ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: Grambling 4-2, 2-1 SWAC; Alabama A&M 5-2, 2-1 LATEST LINE: Alabama A&M by 61/2 (571/2) SERIES: Grambling leads 23-9 LAST MEETING: Grambling won 13-10 in 2025. NOTES: It’s a key SWAC matchup between the Bulldogs and Tigers, ranked third and fourth respectively in the Black College football poll. ... The Tigers haven’t won at Alabama A&M since 2016. ... It’s homecoming for the Bulldogs, who are undefeated at home this season. ... Grambling is receiving votes in the FCS Stats Perform poll. ... QB Cornelious Brown (1,741 yards, 16 TDs, four interceptions) leads the A&M offense.

Stephen F. Austin at Nicholls State

WHEN: 3 p.m. Saturday WHERE: John L. Guidry Stadium (12,800), Thibodaux ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: Nicholls 2-4, 1-2 Southland; SFA 6-0, x-x LATEST LINE: SFA by 221/2 (501/2) SERIES: SFA leads 27-11 LAST MEETING: SFA won 34-7 in 2025. NOTES: The third-ranked Lumberjacks are 6-0 for the ﬁrst time since 1995. SFA is riding a 16-game regularseason win streak, including 11 straight in the SLC. ... Both teams are coming off open dates. ... Through three Southland games, Nicholls is averaging just 17 points per game. A big problem has been red

zone inefﬁciency. In the Colonels’ SLC losses to Lamar and HCU, they were a combined 7 of 30 on third down and 1 of 6 on fourth down.

Troy at UL WHEN: 4 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium (30,000), Lafayette ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: Troy 3-2, 1-0 Sun Belt; UL 4-2, 1-1 LATEST LINE: UL by 31/2 (491/2) SERIES: UL leads 12-11 LAST MEETING: Troy won 35-23 in 2025. NOTES: Cajuns QB Lunch Winﬁeld leads the SBC with eight rushing TDs. The former Lutcher star also ranks 10th nationally by completing 71% of his passes. ... UL ranks sixth nationally in red zone offense, scoring (23 of 24) 98.8% of the time. ... Troy relies on a running game that averages 220.4 yards per game (20th in FBS) and 34:23 in time of possession (fourth in FBS). ... The Trojans are 0-2 on the road this season.

Lamar at Southeastern Louisiana

WHEN: 4 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Strawberry Stadium (7,480), Hammond ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: Lamar 5-1, 3-0 Southland; SLU 3-3, 1-2 LATEST LINE: Lamar by 41/2 (49) SERIES: SLU leads 14-6 LAST MEETING: Lamar won 14-12 in 2025. NOTES: It’s homecoming weekend for the Lions, who need a win to stay in contention for the FCS playoffs and the SLC title hunt. ... The eighth-ranked Cardinals are riding a four-game win streak and are tied atop the SLC standings with Stephen F. Austin. ... SLU will try to rebound from a 16-3 loss at UTRGV.

Louisiana Tech at UL-Monroe

WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday WHERE: St. Francis Stadium (27, 617), Monroe ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: Tech 3-2, 1-0 Sun Belt; ULM 0-5, 0-1 LATEST LINE: Tech by 141/2 (551/2) SERIES: Tech leads 30-13 LAST MEETING: Tech won 42-19 in 2000. NOTES: The schools, which are 35 miles apart, will meet for the 44th time Saturday but the ﬁrst time since 2000. ... The Bulldogs have won eight straight games in the series. ... Tech is coming off its ﬁrst Sun Belt victory after scoring two late touchdowns to stun UL 32-31. ... The winless Warhawks are coming off an open date. ... ULM has 17 players who have already earned a degree. Open date: Southern

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Dutchtown stops Tioga at 2 to preserve win BY RICH LOUP

contributing writer The blustery conditions of the first cold front of the fall provided the backdrop for what Dutchtown coach Guy Mistretta called “a weird game.” His Griffins survived heavy winds and a Tioga scoring threat that fell 2 yards short on the final play as Dutchtown claimed a 20-16 nondistrict home victory Friday night. Ethan Odom’s 28-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Walker-Vice with 5:22 to go in the fourth quarter handed the Class 5A Griffins (6-1) a lead their defense made stand up. “The weather really played havoc on both teams,” Mistretta said. “Passing was tough to come by. In the kicking game, you’re thinking about the wind (on) every punt and every (extra point) or field goal. Proud of our guys (and) both teams. What a fight, all the way to the end. Gutsy performance from both sides.” Class 4A Tioga (5-2) started its last drive from its own 35 and marched to the Dutchtown 6, aided by a pass interference penalty with seven seconds to go. But an illegal formation penalty backed up the Indians to the 11, and Jackson Tarver was tackled at the 2 to end the game. “We played as hard as we could,” Tioga coach Dan Christman said. “They have a good program, a class program. It was a hard-fought game.” Tioga trailed 14-10 at halftime but took a 16-14 lead on a 28-yard pass from Ronnie Stevens to David Garrett with eight minutes to go in the third quarter. Tioga held that lead into the fourth quarter and drove deep into Dutchtown territory with a chance to extend its advantage.

But the drive stalled when CJ Thomas recovered a fumble for Dutchtown at the 20 with 10:15 to go. Defense was the name of the game all evening. The teams played a run-oriented first quarter. Tioga’s Garrett caught a fumble that popped in the air and raced 48 yards to the Dutchtown 1. But two penalties and two plays stuffed by Dutchtown at the goal line forced Tioga to settle for Ethan Bridges’ 22-yard field goal and a 3-0 lead with 40 seconds to go in the first quarter. The offenses warmed up in the second quarter. Marcello Rizzuto’s interception at the Tioga 10 turned back another Tioga scoring threat in the second quarter. Dutchtown responded with a 90-yard touchdown drive. A 34-yard pass from Odom to Landon Ruffns paved the way for Odom’s 2-yard touchdown run. Cade Foley booted the extra point for a 7-3 edge with 6:50 remaining in the first half. The Griffins boosted their advantage to 14-3 with 2:54 remaining in the first half when Brock Black, part of Dutchtown’s two-quarterback rotation, scored on an 8-yard quarterback keeper after a 35-yard Hayden Becnel run. Tioga answered on the ensuing drive. Bryson Faul’s 62-yard run on the first play of the series set up a 1-yard Tarver scoring plunge. Bridges’ extra point cut the Indians’ deficit to 14-10 with 1:45 to go before halftime. After a Dutchtown series ended with a turnover on downs at its own 38 with 15 seconds to go in the first half, Tioga had a shot to score again. But Terron Reese intercepted a pass at the Griffins 8 on the final play of the first half.

Big third quarter lifts St. Amant over Denham Springs BY WILLIAM WEATHERS

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Considering the ground St. Amant has covered over the past two weeks, a one-score deficit at halftime wasn’t enough to bother the Gators. A three-game losing streak, including a double-overtime loss to their arch-rival in the district opener, could have threatened to upset the remainder of the Gators’ season. Instead of a deeper slide, St. Amant has managed to pull into a tie for second place in District 5-5A following Friday’s 27-21 win over Denham Springs at Yellow Jacket Stadium. “This was a crucial win,” St. Amant coach David Oliver said. “Now we’re 4-3, so we’re above .500 with three games remaining, and they’re all district games. That was a good win for us on the road.” St. Amant (4-3, 2-1 in District 5-5A) used a stretch of 27 unanswered points to overcome a seven-point deficit at halftime. The Gators scored on their final possession of the first half to trail 14-7 at halftime and outscored the Yellow Jackets 20-0 in the third quarter, opening up a 27-14 lead on Dreyden Talbot’s 13-yard run with 45 seconds left in the quarter. “I thought the third quarter was the big turning point,” Oliver said. “We got off to a slow start, we’re down 14-0, and we came back. At the end of the game, it came down to the end like it usually does with St. Amant-Denham. We made one more play than they did.” Senior running back Jourden Hickerson rushed 10 times for

101 of his 147 yards in the second half to go over the 1,000yard mark (1,040) for the season. He scored on a pair of runs of 7 and 1 yards that bridged the second and third quarters. Part of that second-half surge included quarterback Brock Koontz finding Hayden Thodile for a 31-yard touchdown at the 7:29 mark of the third quarter. Denham Springs (5-2, 2-2) had its four-game win streak snapped. The Yellow Jackets accounted for the final score on reserve quarterback Andre Adams’ 25-yard run with 8:08 to play. Their final drive ended on Kyler Rock’s fourth-down sack of Adams with 41 seconds left. “We came out in the third quarter and we just weren’t dialed in,” Denham Springs coach Brett Beard, whose team was outgained 210-69 in the second half. “Against teams like this, you have to play complete games. We have to play 48 minutes.” Hickerson concluded a drive with a 7-yard run to slice into Denham Springs’ 14-0 lead with 41 seconds left until halftime. Denham Springs jumped out to a 14-0 lead, the result of a 49yard drive and its defense setting up a 7-yard drive following Cameron Moore’s fumble recovery and 11-yard return. Quarterback Braylon Collins threw the first of his two first-half touchdown passes, a 21-yard TD pass to Jaylen Williams, followed by a 5-yard TD to Jeremy Williams two plays after Moore’s fumble recovery. “I was excited that our kids played hard,” Oliver said. “I wish we could play for 48 minutes, but we’re still growing into that. Maybe next week.”

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catholic running back Jayden Miles looks to stiff-arm Zachary defensive back Alex Williams in the second quarter on Friday in Zachary. catholic won 70-38.

MILES APART catholic running back too much for Zachary to handle in shootout

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Catholic running back Jayden Miles was ready to make a statement against Zachary. Two years ago, Miles scored seven touchdowns against the Broncos at Zachary. He nearly repeated his historic 2024 performance, torching Zachary for 205 yards rushing and six touchdowns on just 10 carries Friday. Miles’ big game helped Catholic (4-3) win 7038 against Zachary at Zachary High. The Bears rolled up 684 yards of offense in the win, which was their third straight. “Consistency is just the word that jumps out to me,” Catholic coach Hudson Fuller said about Miles. “A big part of our bounce back this season is his personal response.” The senior running back knew he could have a huge game against Zachary. “On the bus, I was getting goosebumps,” Miles said. “I’m like, ‘This is going to be a big one for us.’ ” Catholic quarterback Camden Estep completed 10 of 14 passes for 271 yards and two touchdowns. Jude Chamberlain caught five passes for 135 yards. He also caught both touchdown passes. The game became a shootout in the first half after Catholic took a 20-7 lead early. Miles opened the scoring with a 25-yard run. After Zachary’s Jeremey Patton answered with a 28yard touchdown run, Catholic scored on consecutive possessions. Estep found Chamberlain, who dragged a defender into the end zone for a 16-yard score. Miles later found a hole for a 75-yard touchdown run. Zachary (4-3) and Catholic traded scores in the second quarter. Patton scored from 1 yard out to trim the deficit to six points. Estep found Chamberlain over the top for a 63-yard gain that set up a 2-yard Miles touchdown run. Patton added two rushing scores in the quarter from 25 and 52 yards out. Estep threaded the needle on a 21-yard score to Chamberlain, and Graham Nassif hit a field goal to help Catholic hold a 33-28 lead.

Zachary running back Jeremey Patton, left, races away from a catholic defender in the first quarter on Friday. Two turnovers late in the first half helped Catholic begin to pull away. Zachary quarterback Jacori Platt threw a pick to Howard Beach. On the first play of the ensuing drive, Greg Williams found space along the sideline and ripped off a 77-yard touchdown run. Zachary fumbled a handoff on the next drive, which led to a 10-yard rushing touchdown by Miles. The Bears led 49-31 at the half. The teams combined for 53 points in the second quarter alone. Patton scored from 3 yards out to start the third quarter, but the score would be Zachary’s last. He finished with five rushing touchdowns in the loss. Miles scored a 49-yard rushing touchdown after a failed onside kick. The Broncos tried to keep up, but Platt had a pass tipped into the hands of a Catholic defender to end the drive in Bears’ territory. Miles scored a 14-yard touchdown on the ensuing drive. Williams added a 21-yard touchdown late in the third to make it 70-38 after a Zachary turnover on downs. “To me, just did a great job of staying persistent throughout the game,” Fuller said. “Riding the wave a little bit there and finishing out there.”

Prairieville runs past Walker

BY CHARLES SALZER contributing writer

Prairieville scored two touchdowns in the final minute of the ﬁrst half, creating all the separation it would need in a 26-7 win at Walker on Friday night. Prairieville took advantage of a botched punt and an interception to turn a 12-7 lead into a 26-7 halftime advantage. Neither team scored in the second half, which allowed the Hurricanes (3-4, 1-3) to pick up their ﬁrst District 5-5A win of the season. “We’ve been playing pretty well all year,” Prairieville coach Mike Schmitt said. “We lost a couple of (district) games by three points, but they were games we had a chance to win. This week we focused on taking care of the little things. We still had a ton of penalties, but we didn’t turn the ball over much, and defensively we really played a great game tonight.” Walker (4-3, 1-3) picked up its score on an 83-yard pass from Jayce Evans to Brashad London. That pulled the Wildcats to with-

in 12-7 midway through the second quarter, but they ended the half with only three ﬁrst downs. Walker didn’t put together a sustained drive until the third quarter. Walker ﬁnished the game with eight first downs and 229 yards of total offense. On a windy night that affected the passing of both teams, Evans completed 3 of 15 passes and was intercepted twice. He was also sacked three times by Prairieville senior Daniel Williams. Prairieville turned in a big night on the ground with 365 yards rushing. Running back Courtnei Payne ran for 114 yards on just seven carries, and quarterback Skylar Kelly rushed for 103 yards. Through the air, Kelly was 5 of 17 for 51 yards with no interceptions. “Offensively, we didn’t do a whole lot,” Walker coach Chris Harrell said. “We put our defense in some bad situations as far as field position. They were on the field a lot in the first half, but I thought we came out much better in the second half. We had some

fourth-down stops, but it just was too late.” In the first half, Walker stayed close and looked to be in good position after it held Prairieville on downs inside the WHS 10. Instead, a botched punt attempt and an interception led to two Hurricanes touchdowns in the last two minutes of the half. The sequence started when Payne broke free for a 71-yard run. The play gave Prairieville a first-and-goal situation, but the Wildcats held on downs. Walker stalled after picking up one first down, and punter Brodie Marino didn’t get off his kick on fourth down. From there, Prairieville needed only two downs to score on Payne’s 8-yard run. After the kickoff, Prairieville got the ball back on Stantyn Delapasse’s interception, and it capped off a quick, 49-yard drive on Kelly’s 17-yard touchdown pass to Chance Jackson. Prairieville scored twice in the first quarter. Payne had a 4-yard TD run at the end of the Hurricanes’ first possession, and Kale Daigle’s 2-yard run made it 12-0.

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Ogden Park Prowl returns to showcase community BY JOY HOLDEN Staff writer

When Blythe E. Johnson attended the Ogden Park Prowl in 2019, she and her husband were convinced to move to the Mid City neighborhood from Shenandoah. She said they knew they wanted to be part of the diverse and artistic community. The neighborhood is gearing up for this year’s Ogden Park Prowl, scheduled for 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 24 on the eight blocks between Ogden Drive and Acadian Thruway, speciﬁcally the cross streets of Bedford, Hearthstone, Beverly and Wilshire. The free Mid City neighborhood festival near Government Street includes a collection of open houses and yards featuring artists, entertainment and food. The Prowl was a standing neighborhood party during the 2010s, but it ended during the pandemic. Last year, Johnson and other Mid City volunteers resurrected the Prowl. “I’m really excited it’s back,” Johnson said. “As soon as we wrapped up last year, we had vendors and neighbors asking if we were going to continue it. I’m hoping it continues to grow and become what it used to be.” Johnson spearheaded the block festival last year, but this year, she is assisting Justin Lemoine, the deputy assistant secretary for the Louisiana Ofﬁce of Cultural Development, who is taking over. “My favorite thing about this is that it’s organized by residents of the neighborhood,” Lemoine said. “Some are artists, some are not. It’s all people that are just genuinely interested in the community-building aspect of putting on a street festival like this.” The event is not a money maker, Lemoine said, but an event to build community. All of the money goes into putting on the free festival. Lemoine, who is a landscape architect by trade, is part of Mid City Merchants and has helped

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Who is BARTENDER OF THE MONTH in BR? Cast your vote What constitutes a great bartender? You tell us. Nominate your favorite local bartender for the October bartender of the month. Think of the barkeeps at speakeasies, neighborhood bars or downtown restaurants and watering holes. Who comes to mind? What’s their specialty? Why do they stand out? To nominate, email madison.scott@ theadvocate.com by 4 p.m. Oct. 19 with the bartender’s name, where they work and why they deserve it. Include your name and phone number. The features team may follow up with questions.

The current LSU homecoming crown is designed by Lee Michaels.

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The Story Doesn’t. As LSU gets a new homecoming queen, take a look back since 1960

BY JAN RISHER Staff writer

LSU homecoming queens may only wear the crown for one night in Tiger Stadium, but in other ways it stays with them for years to come. We surveyed former LSU homecoming queens to ask what the title meant then and what it means now. Their answers came back with the weather still in them. Meghan O’Hara Higgins, who now lives in Norfolk, Virginia, was crowned in 2005, the fall after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. When the announcer called her name, it didn’t register. “It was not until Brad Golson, the newly crowned king, put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Meghan, that is you — you are homecoming queen!’ that I realized what had happened,” she said. In 1992, a downpour hit just as Elizabeth “Liz” Harris Tremblay heard her name. That same year, she noticed the crown had been soldered back together more than

“It was a true honor to leave that gift behind for a university that enriched my life,” she said. The crown that replaced hers is being replaced, too. Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry, the Baton Rouge company that made the current crown in 2014, began working with the LSU Foundation in 2024 on a new crown and scepter, said Sara Whittaker, the foundation’s vice president of communications and marketing. Scott Berg, president of Lee Michaels, said the company wanted to become a bigger part of LSU traditions and the company thought that designing and making the homecrown and scepter was a Andree Braud Leddy was crowned coming perfect ﬁt. LSU homecoming queen in The new set is scheduled to debut october 1993. at homecoming in 2027. Until then, the foundation has turned the curonce. Tremblay, who now lives in rent crown and scepter into a funLafayette, designed a T-shirt to draising prize. The winning college raise money for a new crown and on campus gets to keep the crown worked with a New Orleans Mardi and scepter for a while. Gras designer to make it. Victoria Cooper, queen in 1998, She graduated before it was ﬁnä See QUEENS, page 3D ished.

Local Tex-Mex restaurant closes one location A lighting technician works on the neon sign at the Lee Drive location of Los Reyes Mexican Grill. STAFF FILE PhoTo BY JohN BALLANcE

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Local Tex Mex restaurant Los Reyes just closed one of its locations on Lee Drive in Baton Rouge, according to a social media post from Monday. Located at 1072 W. Lee Drive, Los Reyes announced on Monday that it has closed doors permanently after three years of operation. The post encouraged

customers to visit the original location, which ﬁrst opened in 2017 at 11333 Coursey Blvd. “The memories aren’t going anywhere — and neither are the margaritas,” the post stated. The menu serves staples such as fajitas, enchiladas, quesadillas, dips, nachos and more. Some dishes fuse cuisines like the gyro tacos, gyro fajitas and

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RELIGION BRIEFS FROM STAFF REPORTS

Usher anniversary at Freeman Baptist

Freeman Baptist Church, 4628 La. 955, Ethel, will celebrate its usher anniversary at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Michael Otkins, pastor of Sherman Baptist Church, Magnolia, Mississippi. The public is invited.

District 6 debate at Shiloh Baptist Prophetic Voices, a Baton Rouge coalition of concerned clergy and church

groups, will host a Congressional debate for candidates vying for the District 6 seat. The debate will start at 7 p.m. Monday at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church. This event will provide voters an opportunity to hear directly from the candidates, be informed and gain insight before heading to the polls in November. All qualified candidates were invited. Debate moderators will be Dezmion Barrow, Destiny Beasley and Johnny Jones. The event is free and open to the public. Live stream is available through Shiloh

Missionary Baptist Church’s Vimeo, YouTube and Facebook.

Celebration at Nathaniel Baptist Nathaniel Baptist Church, 5032 Highway 33 South, Centreville, Mississippi, will host its Family & Friends Day celebration at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. Special guests will be the Rev. Ronald Robertson and Capitol Missionary Baptist Church of Baton Rouge. The Rev. Robert L. Scott Jr., pastor-teacher, and the Nathaniel Baptist Church family invite all to attend.

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 2026. There are 75 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 17, 1989, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck northern California, killing 63 people and causing up to $10 billion worth of damage. Also on this date: In 1777, British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, New York, in a turning point of the Revolutionary War. In 1931, mobster Al Capone was convicted in Chicago of income tax evasion; he would be sentenced to 11 years in prison, ﬁned $50,000 and ordered to pay back taxes. Capone was released in 1939. In 1933, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Ger-

many. In 1967, Puyi, the last emperor of China, died in Beijing at age 61. In 1973, Arab members of OPEC, or the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Counties, cut oil exports to the United States and other nations supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War and imposed a full embargo in December. In 1979, Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1989, Game 3 of the World Series was canceled when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck Northern California just 30 minutes before the game was scheduled to begin at Candlestick Park in San Francisco; it would eventually be played 10 days later. In 2024, Israel announced its forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of

2023’s Hamas-led attack on southern Israel in which militants abducted 251 people and killed some 1,200 others, prompting Israel’s retaliatory war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in the small coastal strip. Today’s birthdays: Singer Gary Puckett is 84. Actormusician Michael McKean is 79. Former astronaut Mae Jemison is 70. Country singer Alan Jackson is 68. Film director Rob Marshall is 66. Animator-ﬁlmmaker Mike Judge is 64. Reggae singer Ziggy Marley is 58. Musician Wyclef Jean is 57. Golf Hall of Famer Ernie Els is 57. Singer Chris Kirkpatrick (’N Sync) is 55. Rapper Eminem is 54. Actor Matthew Macfadyen is 52. Former race car driver Kimi Raikkonen is 47. Actor Felicity Jones is 43. Queen Naija is 31. Actor Erin Kellyman is 28.

Dear Miss Manners: A friend Dear Miss Manners: I rerecently reserved a table ceived a card indicating for 5 p.m. to celebrate her that a donation had been husband’s birthday. When made to a charity in my we arrived at 4:50 p.m., the name. The amount of the donation was not speciﬁed. hostess told us our table was not ready. We underThis came from a relative with whom relastood, but noticed that other patrons tions have recently without reservabeen frosty, so I don’t know what to tions appeared to be make of this or how seated more quickto respond. ly. We were ﬁnally As I see it, the doseated at 5:15 p.m. Judith We were excited nor gets a tax writeMartin for the evening, off and I get put on MISS but the service that the mailing list of MANNERS followed made the yet another charity. experience disapSince I am not the recipient of anything, is a pointing. Our waitress thank-you note in order? seemed overwhelmed. Gentle reader: Judging from We never received water, your tone, Miss Manners chips or even silverware gathers that the relationwhen the food arrived, ship is not so frosty — and and several items from the charity not so offensive our order were missing. My friend’s drink never — that the relative set it up out of vengeance. If you came at all, and we had to repeatedly remind the are feeling familial, you waitress about forgotten could send a note to your relative, asking if this was items. In fairness, the resdone for any particular taurant was busy, but the reason or occasion. If the frequency of the mistakes answer is to your satisfacwent beyond the occasiontion, then follow up with a al oversight. thank-you letter. But if you Before asking for the want to avoid this person check, my friend menentirely, send the inquiry tioned possibly writing a to the charity itself, saying public review about the you believe it was done in experience, as this restauerror. Ask for the name to rant is quite expensive. be changed, either to your Her husband felt that a relative’s — or to another negative review can hurt person with whom your business and preferred a relative is similarly frosty. more direct approach. He

politely told the waitress he was dissatisﬁed with the service; she apologized. In a situation involving numerous service errors, what would Miss Manners consider the most appropriate and gracious way to address the problem: speaking directly to staff, contacting management later, or simply letting it go? We did tip the young server. Gentle reader: The best option is what your friend’s husband did: speaking to the person about it politely, with no threat of punishment. Because while it may feel less directly confrontational to call in a manager or publicly shame the restaurant, both are likely to get her disciplined or ﬁred. That and not tipping her (which is likely the bulk of her already paltry pay), would not change your situation or improve her performance. But kindness, directness and discretion will no doubt make her want to do better — and be grateful for the chance. Miss Manners can only hope that others will be inspired to do as your friend’s husband did. Send questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com.

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continued from page 1D put on Hot Art Cool Nights in May and White Light Nights in November. He was also part of the group that created the Mid City Makers Market, a monthly art market, for six years. These experiences gave him a wealth of knowledge to plan and execute this year’s Ogden Park Prowl. “We have support from all the businesses in Mid City,” Lemoine said. “French Truck, Time Warp, Red Cake Events, Elsie’s Plate and Pie, Pink Elephant, Rad Dad and others. Their help allows us to keep the costs low — just $35 — for vendors to sign up, so it’s very attainable for every kind of artist.” Artists and makers must sell original work or vintage wares. They are matched with hosts who provide their yard or house for the setup. The Prowl will include 55 vendors this year, such as Alchemy Apiary & Apothecary, Amanda Farris Art, Amanda Morris, AMBA benefits, Birdhouse & Co., Capitol City Groomerie and Lux Spa, Catalyst Rouge Vintage & Curated Goods, Chloe Kindell, Emily Bailey, Evan Crocker Art, Girly Girls Bracelets and Godchild Jewelry. There’s no festival without food, and the food vendors will be out in full force on Oct. 24 for the festival,

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Los Reyes, 11333 Coursey Blvd. is open daily 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

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visitors at last year’s ogden Park Prowl chat at a vendor’s table. including Barracuda Taco Stand, Beaux Tie BBQ, Elsie’s Plate & Pie, Candace Moore, Em’s Bakery, Jeremy Krail Sourdough, Magic Vegan, Ninja Snowballs, Noble by the Pound, Puf Sweet, Rougaroux Capitol Bodega and Simple Joe Cafe. Entertainment for the Prowl includes the Louisiana Shakespeare Company, Shane Madere Jr., Katie Love, Okee Dokee Brothers, King Solomon, Tammy May Hromadka, Peter Simon and The Acousticrats. The family event will also highlight children’s activities with Beyond Gymnastics, East Baton Rouge Parish Library, Fire & Flow, Front Yard Bikes and the

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continued from page 1D still lives in Baton Rouge and has the crown she was given to keep. Her one wish, she said, is a replica of the crown that was in rotation at the time. More than the crown, she thinks about Renée Boutte Myer, who in 1991 became LSU’s first Black homecoming queen. “Knowing her showed me that becoming homecoming queen was truly possible,” Cooper said. Olivia Smith Regard, queen in 1996, also lives in Lafayette. She has had years to think about what the honor asks of the women who hold it. “The experience taught me that being seen by others is both a privilege and a responsibility,” she said. Andree Braud Leddy, who lives in Alexandria, was LSU’s homecoming queen in 1993, a year that she says “kinda got lost” because LSU had no yearbook that year. The yearbook fee, she remembers, had been left off student fees. For more than 30 years, she and homecoming king Todd Monroe were missing from LSU’s list of homecoming royalty. Monroe finally got the record corrected last year, when his daughter was on the court. For Leddy, the title kept its meaning long before the record caught up. “It is definitely something I cherish and respect because with that ‘title’ you do in a way represent LSU,” she said. Tiger Stadium has grown up around these women. When Zizi de la Houssaye was crowned in 1960, the stadium held about 67,500 people. Since 2014, it has held more than 102,000. The crowd was already bigger than de la Houssaye could take in. “I could barely recognize myself as being singled out, and voted for by more people than I knew personally,” she said. The number in the stands may change, but the moment at midfield does not. A name rings out. The stadium roars, and a young woman in a borrowed crown starts a story she will likely still be telling at 85. Four of their stories follow.

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crowned as LSU homecoming queen. It was 1991, the same night of the Edwin Edwards and David Duke gubernatorial runoff election. On the field that night, Myer felt a surreal rush of emotions. “Disbelief, excitement, appreciation, honor,” she said. Tiger Stadium is still home to this day. She’s currently the assistant dean of advocacy, collaboration and engagement at the LSU College of Human Sciences and Education. When the memory comes up in conversation, it’s usually recalled by family, friends, work colleagues and students. She said it’s hard to describe the feeling of being introduced midfield in Tiger Stadium. Her advice to this year’s homecoming court is to leave the stress behind and enjoy the moment. Myer lives Zizi de la Houssaye, 1960 by the golden rule — treating others as Sixty-six years ago, de la Houssaye you would like to be treated, with kindwas crowned the homecoming queen at ness and respect. LSU. Today — retired and enjoying time “Stay humble and kind,” Myer said, with her three children, five grandchil- “and appreciate the honor of representdren and one great-grandchild — de la ing your community.” Houssaye said that she found comfort in — Maddie Scott, features writer being chosen. She said that people didn’t necessar- Jen Hale, 1997 ily treat her differently after she was Hale was pulling double duty on Sept. named queen, but the experience taught 27, 1997 — as co-captain of the LSU her that people are innately kind, loving cheerleaders and as a member of the and generous. homecoming court. “People were always friendly to me, “So I cheered the first half of the game and I felt it more deeply after the excite- up until the five-minute mark. I sprinted into the locker room to change out of my ment of the night,” she said. One thing she keeps with her is the uniform and into my suit,” Hale said. “I memory of being in LSU’s yearbook, Gumbo. The 85-year-old in Lake Charles noted that her being homecoming queen often comes up during football season, and she sometimes reveals that she was queen. “They are all amazed and happy for me, especially now that I am 85 years old now and hardly look like a queen,” she said. “I then floor them by revealing that I was chosen Darling of LSU that year, too!” The darling is considered the most beautiful woman at LSU, she said. To the future homecoming queen, de la Houssaye says to “enjoy it to the max.” — Lauren Cheramie, features writer

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don’t really remember my name being called. I just remember my Delta Zeta sorority sisters and fellow cheerleaders going crazy. That’s when I knew I had won. It was such a special night!” Hale, also crowned Miss LSU that year, still has a small, keepsake version of her homecoming crown along with a framed photo capturing the moment. They sit on a bookcase next to her LSU football helmet and national championship football. These days, the New Orleans native, now 48, still spends a great deal of time on the football field as a sideline reporter for the NFL on Fox (16 seasons) and an NFL contributor for “Fox & Friends” (five years). Twelve years ago, she founded Sideline Pass, a nonprofit that provides scholarships for academically excellent, but financially disadvantaged middle and high school girls in the greater New Orleans area. She’s adopted her niece, Dvazny Hale, who’s a 6-year-old kindergartner. “Enjoy every second!” Hale encourages this year’s queen and court. “Take advantage of every opportunity or appearance this honor offers you. This will be a year you’ll forever treasure and forever remember.” — Judy Bergeron, features writer

Camille Faircloth Norem, 2017 Norem was crowned LSU’s homecoming queen in 2017. “When they called my name, I felt an overwhelming sense of pride and gratitude,” she said. “LSU had already given me so much during my college years, and being chosen by my fellow students to represent a university I loved so much was truly an honor.” Norem said she still has the white suit from Chatta Box Boutique that she wore on the ﬁeld that night, along with her homecoming queen sash. “My in-laws have a condo near LSU’s campus, where they’ve hosted tailgates for every home football game for over 20 years,” she said. “The condo is ﬁlled with LSU memorabilia, and we’ve joked about framing my suit and sash in a shadowbox and hanging it on the wall like a retired football jersey.” Though she didn’t feel people treated

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her differently after she was crowned, Norem remembers her hometown of Pineville being proud of her. One of her favorite stories from that night involves her boyfriend at the time, Erick, who is now her husband. He was sitting with her parents during halftime. She said that her mother still laughs about how he was more nervous than anyone waiting for the announcement. “Apparently, he was so concerned about whether I would be crowned homecoming queen that he hardly paid attention to the football game,” she said. “Considering LSU ended up losing to Troy that night, maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing.” These days, Norem spends most of her time balancing life as a chiropractor, business owner, wife and mom. She is a fourth-generation chiropractor, now owner and operator of her family’s practice, Faircloth Chiropractic Clinic, in Alexandria. She and her husband are parents to two sons, Ivan, 2, and John Roy, 8 months. “We still spend most of our fall weekends in Baton Rouge cheering on the Tigers, and it’s been so special getting to share those traditions with our children,” she said. — Robin Miller, features writer

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PARTMENT OF CONSER‐ VATION AND ENERGY, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with par‐ ticular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2026, upon the application of EXPAND OPERATING, LLC. At such hearing the Of‐ ﬁce of Permitting and Compliance will consider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders per‐ i i h f ll i

sources show that the availability of mitragynine pseudoindoxyl and MGM–15 are not isolated to a single region but have rapidly spread across the United States. Products containing mitragynine pseudoindoxyl and MGM–15 are sold on the internet. • According to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS) database, which collects drug identification results from drug cases submitted to and analyzed by Federal State and local forensic laboratories, there have recently been 19 reports of mitragynine pseudoindoxyl in Arkansas (n=15), New York (n=11), Ohio (n=1), and Wyoming (n=2). Recent monographs by the Center for Forensic Science Research and Education (CFSRE) report that mitragynine pseudoindoxyl (n=10) and MGM–15 (n=2) were detected in at least 12 drug materials. • According to data from DEA Toxicology Testing Program (DEA TOX), between February 2025–May 2026, mitragynine pseudoindoxyl has been identified in at least 56 overdose cases, of which 48 were fatal events. From February through April 2026, DEA TOX detected MGM–15 in 17 overdose cases, 16 resulting from a fatal event. • While mitragynine pseudoindoxyl and MGM–15 have already been identified in fatal toxicological screening, the pharmacological profile of MGM–16 presents a significant health risk. MGM–16 is an opioid agonist with approximately 240-times the antinociceptive potency of morphine in animal studies. Recent online surveillance of a vendor site lists MGM–16 for upcoming sale. This transition from a research grade chemical to an accessible consumer product, combined with its opioid mechanism of action, underscores its potential as a highly attractive but lethal substitute. The Louisiana State Police Crime Lab (LSPCL) and the Executive Director of the Louisiana Poison Center recently reached-out to LDH and reported the following: • Products labeled as containing mitragynine pseudoindoxyl and MGM–15 are being sold statewide, at retail locations and online. • Because they are novel substances only recently introduced into the consumer market, the LSPCL’s Toxicology Unit does not currently test for the subject substances, and testing equipment currently used by the LSPCL’s Seized Drugs Unit cannot distinguish the subject substances from mitragynine and/or 7-hydroxymitragynine. The LSPCL is therefore unable to definitively confirm the presence of the subject substances in any tested samples. However, the LSPCL can confirm that since mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine were added to Schedule I on August 1, 2025, the LSPCL has detected the presence of one or both in 17 samples tested by the Toxicology Unit and 17 samples tested by the Seized Drug Unit. • It was reported to the LSPCL that at least one recent overdose victim in Lafourche Parish, who tested positive for mitragynine and/or 7-hydroxymitragynine, had a kratom-related consumer product on his person that was labeled as containing mitragynine pseudoindoxyl. (2) The time, the location, and the manner in which interested persons may present their views thereon: Interested persons have until 4:30 p.m. on October 22, 2026, to submit a request for oral argument or presentation concerning the proposed rule, and until 4:30 p.m. on October 29, 2026, to submit data, views, comments, or arguments in writing concerning the proposed rule. Such requests or comments should be addressed to Brian R. Warren, Food and Drug Unit, Sanitarian Services Section, Office of Public Health, Mail Bin # 10, P.O. Box 4489, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4489, or faxed to (225) 342-7672. If requests or comments are to be shipped or hand-delivered, please address the information as shown above and deliver to the Bienville Building, 628 N. 4th Street - Room 166, Baton Rouge, LA 70802. If a timely request for an opportunity for oral presentation or argument is made as provided herein, then a public hearing will be held on November 5, 2026. Please call (225) 342-1342 to find out if a public hearing is being held. (3) A statement that the intended action complies with the provisions of R.S. 40:996.1 through 996.7: The intended action and rule complies with the provisions of R.S. 40:996.1 through 996.7. (4) The text of the proposed rule: Rule Pursuant to the authority granted by R.S. 40:996.1 et seq., the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health has determined that the following substances, including their possible isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers, and any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of such substances, constitute an imminent hazard to the public health, safety, and welfare, and, accordingly, are each hereby

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Public Notices Conservation p taining to the following matters relating to the Haynesville Zone, Reser‐ voir A, in the Red River Bull Bayou Field, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 1. To permit the applicant to drill, designate and utilize one cross unit hor‐ izontal well as a substi‐ tute unit well for HA RA SUO and HA RA SUVV and as an alternate unit well for HA RA SUN, ﬁve cross unit horizontal wells as alternate unit wells for HA RA SUN, HA RA SUO and HA RA SUVV, and one cross unit horizontal well as an alternate unit well for HA RA SUN and HA RA SUVV, at the locations and in the general man‐ ner shown on the plats submitted with the appli‐ i i i

Public Notices Conservation pp cation, in exception to the spacing provisions of the 109-X Series of Ofﬁce of Permitting and Com‐ pliance Orders, and in accordance with Statewide Order No. 29-S (and lieu of undrilled al‐ ternate unit wells ap‐ proved by Order No. 109X-236). 2. To permit the applicant to drill, designate and utilize one cross unit hor‐ izontal well as an alter‐ nate unit well for HA RA SUC, HA RA SUTT and HA RA SUVV, one cross unit horizontal well as an al‐ ternate unit well for HA RA SUC, HA RA SUD, HA RA SUTT and HA RA SUVV, and one cross unit horizontal well as an al‐ ternate unit well for HA

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RA SUC, HA RA SUD, HA RA SUG, HA RA SUTT, HA RA SUVV, and HA RA SU76, at the locations and in the general man‐ ner shown on the plats submitted with the appli‐ cation, in exception to the spacing provisions of the 109-X Series of Or‐ ders, and in accordance with Statewide Order No. 29-S (and lieu of un‐ drilled alternate unit wells approved by Order No. 109-X-195). 3. To ﬁnd that the pro‐ posed cross unit wells are necessary to efﬁ‐ ciently and economically drain a portion of the Haynesville Zone, Reser‐ voir A, underlying HA RA SUC, HA RA SUD, HA RA SUG, HA RA SUN, HA RA

declared to be a “dangerous substance”: I. Methyl (E)-2-((1’ S, 6’ S, 7’S)-6’-ethyl-4-methoxy-3oxo-3’,5’,6’,7’,8’,8 a ‘-hexahydro-2’ H -spiro[indoline-2,1’indolizine]-7’-yl)-3-methoxyacrylate (commonly known as mitragynine pseudoindoxyl). II. Methyl (E)-2-((2 S, 3 S, 7 aS, 12 aR, 12 bS)-3-ethyl-7 a -hydroxy8-methoxy-1,2,3,4,6,7,7 a, 12,12 a, 12 b -decahydroindolo[2,3a]quinolizin-2-yl)-3-methoxyacrylate (commonly known as MGM-15; also known as dihydro-7-hydroxymitragynine). III. Methyl (E)-2-((2 S, 3 S, 7 aS, 12 aR, 12b S)-3-ethyl-9fluoro-7 a -hydroxy-8-methoxy-1,2,3,4,6,7,7 a, 12,12 a, 12 b -decahydroindolo[2,3- a]quinolizin-2-yl)-3-methoxyacrylate (commonly known as MGM-16; also known as 9-fluorodihydro-7-hydroxymitragynine; or 10-fluoro-dihydro-7hydroxymitragynine (depending on numbering convention)). (hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as “the subject substances”) A “dangerous substance stop order”, as defined in R.S. 40:996.2, prohibiting the sale, distribution, manufacture, or dispensing of the above-listed dangerous substances, is hereby issued and declared. Since nomenclature of the substances listed above are not internationally standardized, compounds of the listed structures, regardless of numerical designation of atomic positions, are covered by and included in said “dangerous substance stop order”. The secretary’s finding that the above-listed substances are each a “dangerous substance”, and the issuance herein of a “dangerous substance stop order” concerning said substances, is based upon the following findings and determinations, made after the secretary’s consideration of the factors set forth in R.S: 40:996.3(B): 1. The substances have a high potential for abuse. Because the subject substances have no legitimate medicinal use and are highly potent drugs to which severe physical ailments have been attributed, any use thereof constitutes abuse. 2. The substances have no current medical use in treatment in the United States. After consulting with the state health officer, the secretary has determined that the subject substances have no accepted medical use in the United States. 3. There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the substances under medical supervision. The subject substances have no accepted medical use. Moreover, neither the secretary nor the state health officer is aware of any scientific studies concerning the potency of the subject substances. Use of the subject substances even under medical supervision would therefore be unsafe and unacceptable. 4. There is an imminent hazard to the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Louisiana requiring the substances to be declared dangerous substances and the issuance of a dangerous substances stop order as authorized by the provisions of this Section. Based upon the findings and conclusions set forth herein and in the associated Notice of Intent, the subject substances represent an imminent hazard to the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Louisiana, requiring the subject substances to be declared dangerous substances and the issuance of a dangerous substances stop order. The above-listed rule shall, unless a legislative oversight hearing is conducted and the rule is found unacceptable by the legislative oversight committee and the governor does not disapprove of the action taken by the legislative oversight committee, become effective on November 16, 2026, and remain in effect through the sixtieth day after final adjournment of the 2027 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature. Bruce D. Greenstein Secretary

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86 A

SCOTLANDVILLE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL

86 B

SCOTLANDVILLE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL

9147 ELM GROVE GARDEN DR

87 A

TWIN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

819 TRAMMEL AVE

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87 B

TWIN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

819 TRAMMEL AVE

FIRE STATION - GOVERNMENT STREET

555 GOVERNMENT ST

LABELLE AIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

12255 TAMS DR

2 A

MELROSE ELEMENTARY

1348 VALCOUR DR

BREC - FOREST PARK COMMUNITY REC. CENTER

13900 S HARRELLS FERRY RD

2 B

MELROSE ELEMENTARY

1348 VALCOUR DR

90 A

BREC - FOREST PARK COMMUNITY REC. CENTER

13900 S HARRELLS FERRY RD

SOUTH BLVD

802 MAYFLOWER ST

90 B

BREC - FOREST PARK COMMUNITY REC. CENTER

13900 S HARRELLS FERRY RD

NEW ST JOHN MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

1455 SOUTH ST

91 A

EBR READINESS MIDDLE SCHOOL

10337 ELM GROVE GARDEN

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3014 ALASKA ST

91 B

EBR READINESS MIDDLE SCHOOL

10337 ELM GROVE GARDEN

5 B

BREC - ALASKA STREET RECREATION CENTER

3014 ALASKA ST

92 A

EBR READINESS MIDDLE SCHOOL

10337 ELM GROVE GARDEN

GREATER NEW BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH

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92 B

EBR READINESS MIDDLE SCHOOL

10337 ELM GROVE GARDEN

DUFROCQ SCHOOL

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GLEN OAKS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

5656 LANIER DR

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855 HEARTHSTONE DR

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1246 ROSENWALD RD

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1020 MARLBROOK DR

95 A

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12 A

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7600 BOONE AVE

98 A

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5660 PARKFOREST DR

14 A

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4451 FAIRFIELDS AVE

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5660 PARKFOREST DR

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100 A

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163 SOUTHERN UNIV PL (CAMPUS)

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101 A

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101 B

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102

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103 A

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4101 PLAZA TOWER DR

103 B

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4101 PLAZA TOWER DR

104 A

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104 B

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105

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3445 FAIRFIELDS AVE

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1555 MADISON AVE

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12121 TAMS DR

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5249 MAPLE DR

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3730 WINBOURNE AVE.

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32 A

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4142 GUS YOUNG AVE

32 B

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4142 GUS YOUNG AVE

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34 A

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6550 SEVENOAKS AVE

34 B

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6550 SEVENOAKS AVE

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5620 CLAYCUT RD

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37 A

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241 EDISON ST

37 B

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241 EDISON ST

38 A

DUFROCQ SCHOOL

330 S 19TH ST

38 B

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330 S 19TH ST

WESTDALE HEIGHTS MAGNET SCHOOL

2000 COLLEGE DR

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855 HEARTHSTONE DR

41 A

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1823 STANFORD AVE

41 B

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1823 STANFORD AVE

42 A

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2050 HOOD AVE

42 B

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2050 HOOD AVE

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280 SUNSET BLVD

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45 DALRYMPLE DR (LSU CAMPUS)

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408 E POLK ST

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45 DALRYMPLE DR (LSU CAMPUS)

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7600 BOONE AVE

47 B

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48 B

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49 A

LASALLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

8000 LASALLE AVE

49 B

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8000 LASALLE AVE

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6125 WINBOURNE AVE

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950 LORRI BURGESS AVE

52 A

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9650 GOODWOOD BLVD

52 B

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9650 GOODWOOD BLVD

53 A

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10100 GOODWOOD BLVD

53 B

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10100 GOODWOOD BLVD

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55 A

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12000 GOODWOOD BLVD

55 B

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12000 GOODWOOD BLVD

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1676 GLASGOW AVE

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6201 FLORIDA BLVD

58 A

INTERDENOMINATIONAL FAITH ASSEMBLY CHURCH

5050 GREENWELL ST

58 B

INTERDENOMINATIONAL FAITH ASSEMBLY CHURCH

5050 GREENWELL ST

FLAIM MAGNET SCHOOL

4510 BAWELL ST

60 A

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1020 MARLBROOK DR

60 B

SHERWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL

1020 MARLBROOK DR

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4503 WINBOURNE AVE

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6125 WINBOURNE AVE

63 A

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1645 N FOSTER DR

63 B

EBR READINESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

1645 N FOSTER DR

WESTDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL

5620 CLAYCUT RD

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2000 COLLEGE DR

66 A

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7122 PERKINS RD

66 B

BREC - PERKINS RD COMMUNITY PARK

7122 PERKINS RD

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1150 SOUTH 12TH ST

69 A

HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

280 SUNSET BLVD

69 B

HIGHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

280 SUNSET BLVD

70 A

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10717 ELAIN AVE

70 B

PARK FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

10717 ELAIN AVE

71 A

TWIN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

819 TRAMMEL AVE

71 B

TWIN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

819 TRAMMEL AVE

72 A

CEDARCREST-SOUTHMOOR ELEM SCHOOL

10187 TWIN CEDARS AVE

72 B

CEDARCREST-SOUTHMOOR ELEM SCHOOL

10187 TWIN CEDARS AVE

73 A

UNIVERSITY VIEW ACADEMY

3113 VALLEY CREEK DR

73 B

UNIVERSITY VIEW ACADEMY

3113 VALLEY CREEK DR

74 A

TARA HIGH SCHOOL

9002 WHITEHALL AVE

74 B

TARA HIGH SCHOOL

9002 WHITEHALL AVE

75 A

MAGNOLIA WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

760 MAXINE DR

75 B

MAGNOLIA WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

760 MAXINE DR

FIRE STATION - BRIGHTSIDE

3150 BRIGHTSIDE DR

77 A

ST MARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

6217 GLEN OAKS DR

77 B

ST MARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

6217 GLEN OAKS DR

78 A

PARK FOREST MIDDLE SCHOOL

3760 ALETHA DR

78 B

PARK FOREST MIDDLE SCHOOL

3760 ALETHA DR

LASALLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

8000 LASALLE AVE

80 A

BREC - DRUSILLA LN PARK RECREATION CENTER

2546 DRUSILLA LANE

80 B

BREC - DRUSILLA LN PARK RECREATION CENTER

2546 DRUSILLA LANE

81 A

BREC- FLANNERY RD PARK RECREATION CENTER

801 S FLANNERY RD

81 B

BREC- FLANNERY RD PARK RECREATION CENTER

801 S FLANNERY RD

82 A

PARK FOREST MIDDLE SCHOOL

3760 ALETHA DR

82 B

PARK FOREST MIDDLE SCHOOL

3760 ALETHA DR

83 A

NORTHDALE ACADEMY

10755 CLETUS DR

83 B

NORTHDALE ACADEMY

10755 CLETUS DR

BREC- CADILLAC ST PARK REC CENTER

6117 CADILLAC ST.,

85 A

BREC - HOWELL PLACE GYM

7717 HOWELL BLVD

85 B

BREC - HOWELL PLACE GYM

7717 HOWELL BLVD

106

GLASGOW MIDDLE SCHOOL

1676 GLASGOW AVE.

107

WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

444 HALFWAY TREE RD

1 A

GLEN OAKS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

5656 LANIER DR

1 B

GLEN OAKS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

5656 LANIER DR

2 A

IMPACT CHARTER SCHOOL

3750 HARDING ST

2 B

IMPACT CHARTER SCHOOL

3750 HARDING ST

BROWNSFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE STATION

6850 KENT DR

BAKER MUNICIPAL CENTER AUDITORIUM

3325 GROOM RD

ZACHARY HIGH SCHOOL

4100 BRONCO LANE

6 A

NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

13801 PRIDE PORT HUDSON RD

6 B

NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

13801 PRIDE PORT HUDSON RD

7 A

GAS UTILITY DISTRICT #1

10633 GREENWELL SPRINGS PORT HUDSON RD

7 B

GAS UTILITY DISTRICT #1

10633 GREENWELL SPRINGS PORT HUDSON RD

GAS UTILITY DISTRICT #1

10633 GREENWELL SPRINGS PORT HUDSON RD

9 A

PARK RIDGE PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY

5903 GROOM RD

9 B

PARK RIDGE PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY

5903 GROOM RD

10 A

FOSTER ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH

11333 FOSTER RD

10 B

FOSTER ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH

11333 FOSTER RD

SHARON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

6450 GUYNELL DR

12 A

BROWNFIELDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

11615 ELLEN DR

12 B

BROWNFIELDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

11615 ELLEN DR

13 A

BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

3200 GROOM RD

13 B

BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

3200 GROOM RD

14 A

NORTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL

5200 E. CENTRAL AVE

14 B

NORTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL

5200 E. CENTRAL AVE

GEO PREP BAKER SCHOOL

5300 BENTLEY DR

16 A

GLEN OAKS HIGH SCHOOL

6650 CEDAR GROVE DR

16 B

GLEN OAKS HIGH SCHOOL

6650 CEDAR GROVE DR

17 A

BAKER TOWN HALL

3325 GROOM RD

17 B

BAKER TOWN HALL

3325 GROOM RD

18 A

ZACHARY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

3775 HEMLOCK ST

18 B

ZACHARY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

3775 HEMLOCK ST

BAKER MUNICIPAL CENTER AUDITORIUM

3325 GROOM RD

BAKER HIGH SCHOOL

3200 GROOM RD

ROLLINS PLACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

4488 ROLLINS PLACE

22 A

ALTERNATIVE CENTER AT BEECHWOOD

2555 DESOTO ST

22 B

ALTERNATIVE CENTER AT BEECHWOOD

2555 DESOTO ST

23 A

MERRYDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

6700 RIO DR

23 B

MERRYDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

6700 RIO DR

BREC - ALSEN COMMUNITY PARK

601 OLD RAFE MEYER RD

25 A

PARK RIDGE ACADEMIC MAGNET SCHOOL

5905 GROOM RD

25 B

PARK RIDGE ACADEMIC MAGNET SCHOOL

5905 GROOM RD

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH

4626 RUSH DR

27 A

SHARON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

6450 GUYNELL DR

27 B

SHARON HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

6450 GUYNELL DR

NORTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL

5200 E. CNTRAL AVE

ZACHARY HIGH SCHOOL

4100 BRONCO LN

30 A

FOREST HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

7447 SUMRALL DR

30 B

FOREST HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

7447 SUMRALL DR

BAKER TOWN HALL

3325 GROOM RD

BREC - CHURCH STREET PARK

3201 CHURCH ST

GAS UTILITY DISTRICT #1

10633 GREENWELL SPRINGS PORT HUDSON RD

COPPER MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

1300 INDEPENDENCE BLVD

ROLLINS PLACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

4488 ROLLINS PLACE

36 A

LIBRARY - ZACHARY BRANCH LIBRARY

1900 CHURCH ST

36 B

LIBRARY - ZACHARY BRANCH LIBRARY

1900 CHURCH ST

BREC - CHURCH STREET PARK

3201 CHURCH ST

COPPER MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

1300 INDEPENDENCE BLVD

1 A

BREC - JACKSON COMMUNITIY PARK

12250 SULLIVAN RD

1 B

BREC - JACKSON COMMUNITIY PARK

12250 SULLIVAN RD

2 A

CORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP

9611 BLACKWATER RD

2 B

CORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP

9611 BLACKWATER RD

3 A

WOODLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH

5805 JONES CREEK RD

3 B

WOODLAWN BAPTIST CHURCH

5805 JONES CREEK RD

4 A

BREC HIGHLAND RD PARK

14024 HIGHLAND RD

4 B

BREC HIGHLAND RD PARK

14024 HIGHLAND RD

AUDUBON BATON ROUGE SCHOOL

7800 INNOVATION PARK DR

6 A

CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL GYM

12656 SULLIVAN RD

6 B

CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL GYM

12656 SULLIVAN RD

7 A

BREC - CEDAR RIDGE RECREATION CENTER

13300 CEDAR RIDGE AVE

7 B

BREC - CEDAR RIDGE RECREATION CENTER

13300 CEDAR RIDGE AVE

BREC- N SHERWOOD FOREST PARK REC CENTER

3140 N SHERWOOD FOREST BLVD

9 A

ST ALPHONSUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL

14040 GREENWELL SPRINGS RD

9 B

ST ALPHONSUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL

14040 GREENWELL SPRINGS RD

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOR

3555 JONES CREEK RD

FIRE STATION - COURSEY BLVD

11010 COURSEY BLVD

12 A

RIVER OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

950 FONTAINBLEAU DR

12 B

RIVER OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

950 FONTAINEBLEAU DR

JEFFERSON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

5601 UPTON DR

14 A

CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL GYM

12656 SULLIVAN RD

14 B

CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL GYM

12656 SULLIVAN RD

15 A

SHENANDOAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

16555 APPOMATTOX AVE

15 B

SHENANDOAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

16555 APPOMATTOX AVE

WOODLAWN MIDDLE SCHOOL

14939 TIGER BEND RD

17 A

WESTMINSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

8935 WESTMINSTER DR

17 B

WESTMINSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

8935 WESTMINSTER DR

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18 A

GREATER BR ASSOC. OF REALTORS

14101 PERKINS RD

44 A

BREC- BEN BURGE PARK

18 B

GREATER BR ASSOC. OF REALTORS

14101 PERKINS RD

44 B

BREC- BEN BURGE PARK

9350 ANTIGUA DR

19 A

NEW RISING SUN BAPTIST CHURCH

16444 HIGHLAND RD

45 A

WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL

15755 OLD JEFFERSON HWY

19 B

NEW RISING SUN BAPTIST CHURCH

16444 HIGHLAND RD

45 B

WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL

15755 OLD JEFFERSON HWY

20 A

BREC- BEN BURGE PARK

9350 ANTIGUA DR

BELLINGRATH HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

6612 AUDUSSON DR

20 B

BREC- BEN BURGE PARK

9350 ANTIGUA DR

47 A

CROSS POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

14965 AIRLINE HWY

9350 ANTIGUA DR

21 A

SOUTHEAST MIDDLE SCHOOL

15000 S HARRELLS FERRY RD

47 B

CROSS POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

14965 AIRLINE HWY

21 B

SOUTHEAST MIDDLE SCHOOL

15000 S HARRELLS FERRY RD

48 A

ST. GEORGE FIRE DEPT ADMINSTRATIVE OFFICE

14100 AIRLINE HWY

WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL

15755 OLD JEFFERSON HWY

48 B

ST. GEORGE FIRE DEPT ADMINSTRATIVE OFFICE

14100 AIRLINE HWY

23 A

WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

444 HALFWAY TREE RD

49 A

MAYFAIR LABORATORY SCHOOL

9880 HYACINTH AVE

23 B

WILDWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

444 HALFWAY TREE RD

49 B

MAYFAIR LABORATORY SCHOOL

9880 HYACINTH AVE

24 A

BREC- N. SHERWOOD FOREST PARK REC. CENTER

3140 N. SHERWOOD FOREST BLVD

50 A

LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

2888 BRIGHTSIDE DR

3140 N. SHERWOOD FOREST BLVD

50 B

LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

2888 BRIGHTSIDE DR

BREC - DRUSILLA LN PARK RECREATION CENTER

2546 DRUSILLA LANE

52 A

BREC - PERKINS RD COMMUNITY PARK

7122 PERKINS RD

52 B

BREC - PERKINS RD COMMUNITY PARK

7122 PERKINS RD

53 A

WOODLAWN MIDDLE SCHOOL

14939 TIGER BEND RD

53 B

WOODLAWN MIDDLE SCHOOL

14939 TIGER BEND RD

DPW EAST LOT

1505 CENTRAL THRUWAY

55 A

BREC MAYFAIR PARK

655 S SABINE DR

55 B

BREC MAYFAIR PARK

655 S SABINE DR

BLUEBONNET HIGHLANDS CLUBHOUSE

10557 BLUEBONNET BLVD

AUDUBON BATON ROUGE SCHOOL

7800 INNOVATION PARK DR

ZOAR BAPTIST CHURCH

11848 HOOPER RD

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOR

3555 JONES CREEK RD

60 A

JEFFERSON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

5601 UPTON RD

60 B

JEFFERSON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

5601 UPTON RD

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

10200 E. BROOKSIDE DR

GREATER BR ASSOC. OF REALTORS

14101 PERKINS RD

BLUEBONNET HIGHLANDS CLUBHOUSE

10557 BLUEBONNET BLVD

LIBRARY- BLUEBONNET REGIONAL LIBRARY

9200 BLUEBONNET BLVD

ST. JOHN’S METHODIST CHURCH

230 RENEE DR

24 B

BREC- N.SHERWOOD FOREST PARK REC. CENTER

25 A

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

10200 E BROOKSIDE DR

25 B

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

10200 E BROOKSIDE DR

26 A

BELLINGRATH HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

6612 AUDUSSON DR

26 B

BELLINGRATH HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

6612 AUDUSSON DR

27 A

CEDARCREST-SOUTHMOOR ELEM SCHOOL

10187 TWIN CEDARS AVE

27 B

CEDARCREST-SOUTHMOOR ELEM SCHOOL

10187 TWIN CEDARS AVE

28 A

FAIRWOOD BRANCH LIBRARY

12910 OLD HAMMOND HWY

28 B

FAIRWOOD BRANCH LIBRARY

12910 OLD HAMMOND HWY

29 A

WESTMINSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

8935 WESTMINSTER DR

29 B

WESTMINSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

8935 WESTMINSTER DR

30 A

TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

9352 RUSTLING OAKS DR

30 B

TANGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

9352 RUSTLING OAKS DR

31 A

WESTMINSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

8935 WESTMINSTER DR

31 B

WESTMINSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

8935 WESTMINSTER DR

EASTSIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE STATION

15094 OLD HAMMOND HWY

33 A

BREC-BARRINGER RD. PARK RECREATION CENTER

7401 BARRINGER RD

33 B

BREC-BARRINGER RD. PARK RECREATION CENTER

7401 BARRINGER RD

34 A

ST. GEORGE FIRE DEPT. ADMINSTRATIVE OFFICE

14100 AIRLINE HWY

34 B

ST. GEORGE FIRE DEPT. ADMINSTRATIVE OFFICE

14100 AIRLINE HWY

35 A

LIBRARY- BLUEBONNET REGIONAL LIBRARY

9200 BLUEBONNET BLVD

35 B

LIBRARY- BLUEBONNET REGIONAL LIBRARY

9200 BLUEBONNET BLVD

LIBRARY- BLUEBONNET REGIONAL LIBRARY

9200 BLUEBONNET BLVD

CORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP

9611 BLACKWATER RD

WOODLAWN MIDDLE SCHOOL

14939 TIGER BEND RD

JEFFERSON TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

5601 UPTON DR

40 A

BREC HIGHLAND RD PARK

14024 HIGHLAND RD

40 B

BREC HIGHLAND RD PARK

14024 HIGHLAND RD

41 A

JONES CREEK REGIONAL LIBRARY

6222 JONES CREEK RD.

41 B

JONES CREEK REGIONAL LIBRARY

6222 JONES CREEK RD.

BREC-N SHERWOOD FOREST PARK REC CENTER

3140 N SHERWOOD FOREST BLVD

43 A

SHENANDOAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

16555 APPOMATTOX AVE

43 B

SHENANDOAH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

16555 APPOMATTOX AVE

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SUO, HA RA SUTT, HA RA SUVV, and HA RA SU76, which cannot be so drained by any existing well within such units. 4. To provide that with re‐ spect to horizontal wells drilled to the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, within or to serve HA RA SUC, HA RA SUD, HA RA SUG, HA RA SUN, HA RA SUO, HA RA SUTT, HA RA SUVV, and HA RA SU76, where the horizontal portion of the well is cased and ce‐ mented back above the top of the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, the distance to any unit boundary and any offset well(s) should be calcu‐ lated based on the dis‐ tance to the nearest per‐ foration in the well and not based on the pene‐ tration point or terminus. 5. To permit the unit op‐ erator of HA RA SUC, HA RA SUD, HA RA SUG, HA RA SUN, HA RA SUO, HA RA SUTT, HA RA SUVV, and HA RA SU76, to pro‐ duce the unit allowable for each of said units from the unit well, from any alternate unit well, or from any combination thereof, at its discretion. 6. To ﬁnd that unit pro‐ duction from the pro‐ posed cross unit wells should be allocated to each of the units from which it produces in the same proportion as the perforated length of the lateral in each such unit bears to the total length of the perforated lateral as determined by an “as survey per‐ drilled” formed after the pro‐ posed cross unit wells are drilled and com‐ pleted, except that the proportion of unit pro‐ duction associated with the perforated length of lateral located within 330’ of the common unit boundary between HA RA SUC and HA RA SUG, and within 330’ of the common unit boundary between HA RA SUD and HA RA SU76, should be al‐ located equally between HA RA SUC and HA RA SUG, and equally be‐ tween HA RA SUD and HA RA SU76, and that unit production should be continue to be shared on a surface acreage basis. 7. To provide that all op‐ erations on and produc‐ tion from the perforated length of lateral located within 330’ of the com‐ mon unit boundary be‐ tween HA RA SUC and HA RA SUG and within 330’ of the common unit bound‐ ary between HA RA SUD and HA RA SU76, should be considered operations on and production from each of the separate tracts within HA RA SUC and HA RA SUG, and each of the separate tracts within HA RA SUD and HA RA SU76, under the terms of each of the mineral lease or other mineral affecting said rights tracts, regardless of the locations of the perfora‐ tions within 330’ of such common unit bound‐ aries. 8. To continue in full force and effect, except to the extent contrary herewith, the pertinent provisions the 109-X Se‐ ries of Orders and all ap‐ plicable Statewide Or‐ ders. 9. To consider such other matters as may be perti‐ nent. The Haynesville Zone was deﬁned in Order No. 109-X, effective June 25, 2008. Plats are available for in‐ spection in the Depart‐ ment of Conservation and Energy in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana. http://dnr.louisiana.gov/ conshearings All parties having inter‐ est therein shall take no‐ tice thereof. BY ORDER OF: DUSTIN H. DAVIDSON, SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY Baton Rouge, LA 10/14/26;10/17/26 S lck IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE CONTACT THE DEPARTMENT OF CON‐ SERVATION AND ENERGY AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORKING DAYS OF THE HEARING DATE. 204217 Oct. 17, 2026 1t $99.65

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PUBLIC NOTICE ---2PLEASANT HILL FIELD 26-353 thru 26-357 LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF LOUISIANA, DE‐ PARTMENT OF CONSER‐ VATION AND ENERGY, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with par‐ ticular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Revised Louisiana Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2026, upon the application of JERA UPSTREAM AMER‐ ICA, LLC. At such hearing the Of‐ fice of Permitting and Compliance will consider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders per‐ taining to the following matters relating to the Haynesville Zone, Reser‐ voir A, in the Pleasant Hill Field, Sabine Parish, Louisiana. 1. To permit the applicant to drill, designate and utilize six cross unit hori‐ zontal wells as alternate unit wells for HA RA SUY, HA RA SUFF and HA RA SUII, and five cross unit horizontal wells as alter‐ nate unit wells for HA RA SUY, HA RA SUMM and HA RA SURR, at the loca‐ tions and in the general manner shown on the plats submitted with the application, in exception to the spacing provisions of the 498-B Series of Of‐ fice of Permitting and Compliance Orders, and accordance with in Statewide Order No. 29-S (and lieu of undrilled al‐ ternate unit wells ap‐ proved by Order No. 498B-24). 2. To find that the pro‐ posed cross unit wells are necessary to effi‐ ciently and economically drain a portion of the Haynesville Zone, Reser‐ voir A, underlying HA RA SUY, HA RA SUFF, HA RA SUII, HA RA SUMM, and HA RA SURR, which can‐ not be so drained by any existing well within such units. 3. To provide that with re‐ spect to horizontal wells drilled to the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, within or to serve HA RA SUY, HA RA SUFF, HA RA SUII, HA RA SUMM, and HA RA SURR, where the horizon‐ tal portion of the well is and cemented cased back above the top of the Haynesville Zone, Reser‐ voir A, the distance to any unit boundary and any offset well(s) should be calculated based on the distance to the near‐ est perforation in the well and not based on the penetration point or terminus. 4. To permit the unit op‐ erator of HA RA SUY, HA RA SUFF, HA RA SUII, HA RA SUMM, and HA RA SURR, to produce the unit allowable for each of said units from the unit well, from any alternate unit well, or from any combination thereof, at its discretion. 5. To find that unit pro‐ duction from the pro‐ posed cross unit wells should be allocated to each of the units from which they produce in the same proportion as the perforated length of the lateral in each such unit bears to the total length of the perforated lateral as determined by an “as drilled” survey performed after the pro‐ posed cross unit wells are drilled and com‐ pleted, and that unit pro‐ duction should continue to be shared on a surface acreage basis. 6. To continue in full force and effect, except to the extent contrary herewith, the pertinent provisions of the 498-B Series of Orders, and all applicable Statewide Or‐ ders. 7. To consider such other matters as may be perti‐ nent. The Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A was defined in Order No. 498-B, effec‐ tive October 7, 2008. Plats are available for in‐ spection in the Depart‐ ment of Conservation and Energy in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana. http://dnr.louisiana.gov/ conshearings All parties having inter‐ est therein shall take no‐

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tice thereof. BY ORDER OF: DUSTIN H. DAVIDSON, SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF CON‐ SERVATION AND ENERGY Baton Rouge, LA 10/14/26;10/17/26 S lck IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE CONTACT THE DEPARTMENT OF CON‐ SERVATION AND ENERGY AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORKING DAYS OF THE HEARING DATE. 204211 Oct. 17, 2026 1t $76.50 PUBLIC NOTICE ---3ABBEVILLE FIELD 26-363 LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF LOUISIANA, DE‐ PARTMENT OF CONSER‐ VATION AND ENERGY, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with par‐ ticular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Revised Louisiana Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on THURS‐ DAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2026, upon the application of DUNN EXPLORATION COMPANY, LLC. At such hearing the De‐ partment of Conserva‐ tion and Energy will con‐ sider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders pertaining to the follow‐ ing matters relating to the 4900 Sand, Reservoir B, in the Abbeville Field, Parish, Vermilion Louisiana. 1. To permit the applicant to designate and utilize its Dale Leblanc, et al No. 1 Well as an alternate unit well for the 4900 RB SUA, said well to be at the location shown on the plat submitted with the application. 2. To permit the operator to produce the unit al‐ lowable from the existing unit well, the proposed alternate unit well, or from the combination of both wells at its option. 3. To find that the pro‐ posed alternate unit well is necessary to economi‐ cally and efficiently drain reserves from the 4900 RB SUA which cannot be economically and effi‐ ciently recovered by any existing well within such unit. 4. Except to the extent contrary herewith, the provisions of Office of Permitting and Compli‐ ance Order No. 155DDDD-1, the unit created thereby, and all applica‐ ble Statewide Orders, shall remain in full force and effect. 5. To consider such other matters as may be perti‐ nent. The 4900 Sand, Reservoir B was fully defined in Order No. 155-DDDD-1, ef‐ fective March 27, 2018. A plat is available for in‐ spection in the Depart‐ ment of Conservation and Energy in Baton Rouge and Lafayette, Louisiana. http://dnr.louisiana.gov/ conshearings All parties having inter‐ est therein shall take no‐ tice thereof. BY ORDER OF: DUSTIN H. DAVIDSON, SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY Baton Rouge, LA 10/14/26;10/17/26 L lck IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CON‐ TACT THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN FIVE (5) WORK‐ ING DAYS OF THE HEAR‐ ING DATE. 204207 Oct. 17, 2026 1t $59.35

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PUBLIC NOTICE --REVISED - 1 REDOAK LAKE AND KING HILL FIELDS 26-358 thru 26-361 LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF LOUISIANA, DE‐ PARTMENT OF CONSER‐ VATION AND ENERGY, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with par‐ ticular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Revised Louisiana Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2026, upon the application of EX‐ PAND OPERATING LLC. At such hearing the Of‐ fice of Permitting and Compliance will consider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders per‐ taining to the following matters relating to the Haynesville Zone, Reser‐ voir A, in the Redoak Lake and King Hill Fields, Red River and Natchi‐ Parishes, toches Louisiana. 1. To authorize Applicant to drill, designate and utilize one cross unit hor‐ izontal well to serve as a substitute unit well for HA RA SUK and HA RA SUW, and one cross unit horizontal well to serve as an alternate unit well for HA RA SUK, HA RA SUW, HA RA SUL, and HA RA SUR, at the locations and in the general man‐ ner shown on the plats submitted with the appli‐ cation, or at any other legal locations within such units, and to ap‐ prove exceptions to the spacing provisions of Of‐ fice of Permitting and Compliance Order No. 1243-C, effective January 6, 2009 (King Hill Field) and 948-C, effective June 2, 2009 (Redoak Lake Field), as to the common boundaries of the units which will be served by the cross unit horizontal wells, and in accordance with LAC 43:XIX.4307, et seq. (Statewide Order No. 29-S). 2. To find that each of the horizontal proposed wells is necessary to effi‐ ciently and economically drain a portion of the Haynesville Zone under‐ lying the units on which it is proposed to be drilled which cannot be efficiently and economi‐ cally drained by any ex‐ isting well on such units, will prevent waste, avoid the drilling of unneces‐ sary wells, protect cor‐ relative rights and pro‐ mote the full and effi‐ cient development of the natural resources of this state. 3. To provide that if the horizontal portion of a well is cased and ce‐ mented back above the top of the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, the distance to any unit and offset boundary well(s) will be calculated based on the distance to the nearest perforation in the well and not on the penetration point or ter‐ minus of the well in the Haynesville Zone, Reser‐ voir A. 4. To provide that pro‐ duction from the pro‐ posed wells shall be sep‐ arated and metered indi‐ vidually and that this in‐ formation shall be re‐ ported in the manner prescribed by the Office of Permitting and Com‐ pliance. 5. To provide that the unit allowables for the units to be served by the pro‐ posed wells may be pro‐ duced from the unit well, from any alternate unit well, or from any combi‐ nation of such wells serving the unit, at the discretion of the opera‐ tor. 6. To provide that pro‐ duction from a cross unit horizontal well shall be allocated to each unit penetrated by the well in the same proportion as the perforated length of the lateral in each such unit bears to the total length of the perforated lateral as determined by an “as drilled” survey performed after the well has been drilled and completed, except that the proportion of unit associated production the perforated with length of lateral located within 330’ of the com‐ mon unit boundary be‐ tween HA RA SUK and HA

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RA SUL shall be allocated equally between HA RA SUK and HA RA SUL, and the proportion of unit associated production the perforated with length of lateral within 330’ of the common unit boundary between HA RA SUW and HA RA SUR be allocated shall equally between HA RA SUW and HA RA SUR. 7. Except insofar as set forth above, to confirm and continue in full force and effect the provisions of Order No. 1243-C, ef‐ fective January 6, 2009, as amended and supple‐ mented by the 1243-C Se‐ ries of Orders and Order No. 948-C, effective June 2, 2009, as amended and supplemented by the 948-C Series of Orders, units created the thereby, and of all applic‐ able Statewide Orders. 8. To consider such other matters as may be perti‐ nent. The Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, in the King Hill Field, was defined in Order No. 1243-C, effec‐ tive January 6, 2009. The Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, in the Re‐ doak Lake Field, was de‐ fined in Order No. 948-C, effective June 2, 2009. A plat is available for in‐ spection in the Depart‐ ment of Conservation and Energy in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana. http://dnr.louisiana.gov/ conshearings All parties having inter‐ est therein shall take no‐ tice thereof. BY ORDER OF: DUSTIN H. DAVIDSON, SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF CON‐ SERVATION AND ENERGY Baton Rouge, LA 10/14/26;10/17/26 S lck IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CON‐ TACT THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORK‐ ING DAYS OF THE HEAR‐ ING DATE. 204209 Oct. 17, 2026 1t $91.65 PUBLIC NOTICE --REVISED -2RED RIVER BULL BAYOU FIELD 26-362 LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF LOUISIANA, DEPARTMENT OF CON‐ SERVATION AND ENERGY, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with par‐ ticular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Revised Louisiana Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2026, upon the application of BCF OPERATING, LLC. At such hearing the De‐ partment of Conserva‐ tion and Energy will con‐ sider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders pertaining to the follow‐ ing matters relating to the Hosston Formation, Reservoir F, in the Red River Bull Bayou Field, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. 1. To create two drilling and production units for the exploration for and production of gas and condensate from the Formation, Hosston Reservoir F, such units being shown on the plat submitted with the appli‐ cation and being desig‐ nated HOSS RF SUV and HOSS RF SUW. 2. To force pool and inte‐ all separately grate owned tracts, mineral leases and other prop‐ erty interests within the proposed units with each tract sharing in unit pro‐ duction on a surface acreage basis of partici‐ pation. 3. To designate an opera‐ tor of, and unit well for, the proposed units as may be appropriate. 4. Except to the extent contrary herewith, to ex‐ tend to the proposed ad‐ ditional units all perti‐ nent provisions of the Of‐ fice of Permitting and Compliance Order No. 109-N-17, effective May 6, 2008, and applicable id d

Public Notices Conservation pp Statewide Orders. 5. To consider such other matters as may be perti‐ nent. The Hosston Formation was previously deﬁned in Order No. 109-N, effec‐ tive November 22, 1983. A plat is available for in‐ spection in the Depart‐ ment of Conservation and Energy in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana. http://dnr.louisiana.gov/ conshearings All parties having inter‐ est therein shall take no‐ tice thereof. BY ORDER OF: DUSTIN H. DAVIDSON, SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND EN‐ ERGY Rouge, LA Baton 10/14/26;10/17/26 S lck IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CON‐ TACT THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA 70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORK‐ ING DAYS OF THE HEAR‐ ING DATE. 204216 Oct. 17, 2026 1t $59.35

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ELOS Environmental, LLC on behalf of National Water Infrastructure is requesting authorization to construct an influent pipeline, centralized wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and an ef‐ fluent force main to con‐ vey and discharge treated effluent from the newly constructed facil‐ ity located in the City of Geismar, Louisiana, within Ascension Parish. The US Army Corps of En‐ gineers (USACE) will be accepting public com‐ ments on the project until November 11, 2026. To further review or pro‐ vide comments, addi‐ tional information and plans on the proposal may be obtained at the following website:www. mvn.usace.army.mil/ missions/regulatory/ public-notices (see Ref#: MVN-2022-00246-CJT). If you have any questions, please contact Jaimie Thompson with the USACE, Regulatory Divi‐ sion at (504) 862-1489 or jaimie.l.thompson@ usace.army.mil. 203540-oct 12-nov 12-32t $3,468.52 Public Notice Notice is hereby given that St. Amant Gas Com‐ pany, Inc., which pro‐ vides natural gas distrib‐ ution services to retail customers in the parish of Ascension, has made to the application Louisiana Public Service Commission relative to adjustment of its gas service rates. Due to its current financial condi‐ tion, it is necessary for St. Amant to request this increase in rates. St. Amant Gas proposes that its monthly customer surcharge to commercial and institutional cus‐ tomers be increased by $5 per month, and that its monthly customer surcharge to residential customers be increased by $5.79. St. Amant also asks for a temporary monthly surcharge for one year of $3.80 to pay for safety mandated gas system capital projects, and a temporary monthly surcharge for one year of $1.35 for extraordinary legal expenses associ‐ ated with resolving com‐ pany ownership related issues. Persons wishing to pro‐ vide data, views, or com‐ ments relative to this ap‐ plication may contact the Louisiana Public Ser‐ vice Commission at 800256-2397 or may submit their comments in writ‐ ing to Louisiana Public Service Commission, P.O.

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Box 91154, Baton Rouge, 70821-9154, Louisiana Attn: Utilities Depart‐ ment. 204134 Oct. 17, 2026 1t $173.46 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE MAGNOLIA HOME BUILDING AND RENOVA‐ TIONS, LLC AND JEFFREY A. KLEINPETER Pursuant to an order of the 19th Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge in the matter of XK8, LLC, PRAYING FOR MONITION, Docket No. C784883, 19TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, dated October 1, 2026, it was as follows: ordered WHEREAS, XK8, LLC, by act executed by Sid J. Gautreaux, III, Sheriff and Tax Collector for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, for unpaid 2021 ad valorem taxes, as memorialized in the Tax Sale Certificate recorded the Conveyance in Records of East Baton Rouge Parish, bearing Original 896 and Bundle 13216, purchased prop‐ at tax sale; erty WHEREAS, XK8, LLC has applied to this Honorable Court for a Monition or advertisement, in confor‐ mity with LA. REV. STAT. § 47:2271, et. seq.; THERE‐ FORE, in the name of the State of Louisiana and the 19th Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, all in‐ persons are terested cited and admonished to show cause within six (6) months from the date on which this Monition is advertised, why first grounds exist for a nul‐ lity under the provisions of Chapter 5 of Subtitle III Title 47 of the of Revised Louisiana Statutes of 1950. The property affected by this monition is: ONE CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, together with all buildings and im‐ provements thereon, sit‐ uated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, and being designated as LOT 12-A on that certain map by Phillip J. made Thomas, dated June 8, entitled “MAP 2020, SHOWING THE SURVEY EXCHANGE OF AND BETWEEN PROPERTY LOTS 12 & 13, SQUARE 12 CAPITAL HEIGHTS INTO 12-A & 13-A, LOTS SQUARE 12 LOCATED IN SECTION 82, T-7-S, R-1-E, EAST BATON G.L.D. ROUGE PARISH, LA FOR MIKE & ANNIE DOIRON.” Said map recorded in the official records of East Baton Rouge Parish as Original 979 of Bundle 13032, said tract contain‐ ing approximately 0.110 Acres, more or less, and being subject to such servitudes and having such measurements and dimensions as shown on said map. The Hon. Doug Welborn Clerk of 19th Ju‐ dicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge 300 North Boule‐ vard, Baton Rouge, LA 70801. Jonah Freedman, Esq. La. Bar No. 35780, 700 Camp Street Suite 316 New Orleans, LA 70130 Counsel for XK8, LLC. 203459-oct 10-17-2t $97.20 PUBLIC NOTICE --OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE OF THE BATON ROUGE REGIONAL AIRPORT AUTHORITY FOR THE CERTIFICATION OF COMPLETION OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE BUDGET PROCESS Notice is hereby given pursuant to the Louisiana Local Govern‐ ment Budget Act, specifi‐ cally La. R.S. 39:1307(D), that the Baton Rouge Re‐ gional Airport Authority certifies that it has com‐ pleted all actions re‐ quired by La. R.S. 39:1307 concerning public partic‐ ipation in the preparation and adoption of the Au‐ thority’s 2026 Transition Period Operating Budget for the fiscal period be‐ ginning October 31, 2026, and ending December 31, 2026. The proposed budget was completed and made available for public inspection at the admin‐ i i ffi f h

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p istrative offices of the Baton Rouge Regional Airport Authority. Notice of the availability of the proposed budget and of the scheduled public hearing was published in the Authority’s official journal on September 28, 2026. The Baton Rouge Re‐ gional Airport Authority Board conducted a pub‐ lic hearing on the pro‐ posed budget on Thurs‐ day, October 8, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. in the Author‐ ity Board Room, located on the third floor of the Baton Rouge Metropoli‐ tan Airport, 9430 Jackie Cochran Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70807. Members of the public were provided an oppor‐ tunity to present com‐ ments concerning the proposed budget. Following the conclusion of the public hearing and consideration of the pub‐ lic comments received, the Baton Rouge Re‐ gional Airport Authority Board adopted the 2026 Transition Period Operat‐ ing Budget without amendments during an open public meeting held on October 8, 2026, by Resolution No. 2026-0009. A copy of the adopted budget and the budget adoption instrument is available for public in‐ spection at the adminis‐ trative office of the Baton Rouge Regional Airport Authority, 9430 Jackie Cochran Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70807, during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., exclud‐ ing holidays. 203653-oct 14-18-5t $165.35

PUBLIC NOTICE --STATE OF LOUISIANA AFFIDAVIT TO DISSOLVE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY R.S. 12:1335.1 TBC PROCUREMENT LLC is no longer doing business, owes no debts and owns no immovable property is dissolved by filing this affidavit with the of State, Secretary by the executed or member(s), if no organizer(s) interests membership been issued, have attesting to such facts. Those listed below declare that they are: (check one): ALL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ABOVE NAMED LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Member(s) or Organizer(s): TBC RETAIL HOLDINGS, LLC 4260 DESIGN CENTER DRIVE PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL, 33410 The filing of a false public with the record, knowledge of its falsity, is a crime, subjecting the filer to fine or imprisonment or both under R.S. 14:133. BY TYPING MY NAME BELOW, I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IS A TRUE AND COMPLETE STATEMENT. ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE: DON BYRD (9/25/2026) TITLE: PRESIDENT 204137 Oct. 17, 2026 1t $197.01

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice of Public Meeting Fire Protection District No. 6 (E.B.R. Parish) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Article VI, 22, of the Section Constitution Louisiana and La. R.S. 42:19.1, et seq. that a public meet‐ ing will be held on Tues‐ day, November 17, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. at the Fire Protection District No. 6 Headquarters, 7878 Prescott Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70812, to pass a resolution call‐ ing for the approval of the renewal of the levy d ll i f h

y and collection of the 10 mill, ten (10) year, ad val‐ orem property tax on property within the Dis‐ trict (the “Tax”), expiring in tax year 2027, and au‐ thorizing the calling of an election on Saturday, May 29, 2027, for submis‐ sion of the question of this millage tax renewal to the voters of the Dis‐ trict, a political subdivi‐ sion of the State of Louisiana. The Tax will be the years 2028 for through 2037 (inclusive). The revenue collected in the first tax year from this renewed millage is to be estimated $702,389.00. This Tax is dedicated entirely and exclusively to the devel‐ opment, operation, and maintenance of the fire protection facilities of the District including the cost of obtaining water for fire protection pur‐ poses and fire hydrants. A public comment period shall be afforded prior to action being taken on agenda items which re‐ quire a vote. 203978-OCT 17-1T $45.60 PUBLIC NOTICE OPPORTUNITY FOR REQUESTING A PUBLIC HEARING All interested persons are hereby advised that the East Baton Rouge Council on Aging has ap‐ plied to the Louisiana De‐ partment of Transporta‐ tion and Development for project funding under Federal Transit Adminis‐ (Section 5310 tration and/or 5311) for the fol‐ lowing: PROJECT: East Baton Rouge Council on Aging is preparing to add addi‐ tional equipment to ex‐ pand transportation ser‐ vices in the Parish. Fur‐ ther details relative to the project are available from LaShonda DoganJones, 965 N. 18th Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802, (225) 923-8000. Interested persons are advised that they may request that a public hearing be conducted to provide a means for the public to express their views relative to the pro‐ posed project on the social, eco‐ probable nomic, and environmen‐ tal effects involved. In lieu of requesting a pub‐ lic hearing, interested may submit persons their comments in writ‐ ing. Written requests for a public hearing and/or submittal of comments must be postmarked on or before October 16, 2026, and should be ad‐ dressed to: LaShonda Dogan-Jones, 965 N. 18th Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802. Should a public hearing be required, a public notice will be pub‐ lished stating the date, time, and location of the hearing. 201785 Oct. 17, 2026 1t $46.95 PUBLIC NOTICE Public Hearings will be held at Zachary City Hall 4700 Main St. Zachary, LA 70791 during a regular meetings of the Zachary Commission Planning and the Zachary City Council for the following purposes: The Zachary Planning Commission will hold a public hearing Monday, November 2, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. to consider whether or not to recommend the City Council adopt an or‐ dinance to amend the text of the City of Zachary Unified Develop‐ ment Code to increase the maximum portion of a restaurant’s revenues that can be derived from the sale of alcoholic bev‐ erages from Forty per‐ cent to Fifty percent. The Zachary City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. to con‐ sider whether or not to introduce an ordinance. Said ordinance to amend the City of Zachary Uni‐ fied Development Code to increase the maximum portion of a restaurant’s revenues that can be de‐ rived from the sale of al‐ coholic beverages from if

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