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LNG firm to build power plants Venture Global terminals could draw data centers

BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer

Venture Global, the Virginia-based company that exports liquefied natural gas from massive terminals on the Louisiana coast, is planning to dramatically expand its ability to generate electricity at its facilities in Cameron and Plaquemines parishes — a move that could help bring new AI data centers to the state. The company recently announced a $17.2 billion deal with GE Vernova and Baker Hughes Energy Services — companies that manufacture and service power equipment — to procure new turbines and transformers with enough capacity to generate up to 10 gigawatts of electricity. That’s enough electricity to power every household in the state of New York and roughly 25%

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New Orleans Saints fans from left, Sherion Green, Lori Moffatt, Douglas Breech and Tamiko Blackson hang out on a rainy day near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Friday. The group of friends hail from Mobile, Ala., and Baltimore, Md. BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

PARIS — Leroy Mitchell had been in France for all of 90 minutes when a couple of American tourists saw him on the street and stopped to take a photo with him. He was hard to miss. It wasn’t just that the New Orleans Saints super-fan had his signature whistle helmet positioned ä Landry atop his head, but touts La. ties he was also whisat economic tling. Loud. A tune that cut through the summit. trafﬁc and the genPAGE 4A eral metropolitan noises of the city of roughly 13 million. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and there is a once-in-a-blue-moon person, standing with his New Orleans Saints gear in Paris’ 8th arrondissement, whistling a tune at ear-splitting volume. “This is beautiful,” Mitchell said. “I was telling every single person, you do not want to miss this. This

La. settles with BP on coastal damage Secrecy of deals raise concerns regarding terms

BY MIKE SMITH Staff writer

Leroy Mitchell aka Whistle Monsta, whistles for passing fans upon arrival at his Paris hotel on Friday. is once in a lifetime. First game in France, and then us, the Saints, the connection we have; I don’t use perfect storm, but if you put this on paper, it would work. Of course the Saints would have a home game in France. … I think it’s long overdue, and I’m happy that we’re here.” The Saints are playing a game in

Paris on Sunday, against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Stade de France. It is the ﬁrst NFL game to be played in this country. It is also therefore the ﬁrst time New Orleanians have swarmed Paris in force in their black and gold regalia.

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Louisiana and BP announced a two-part settlement agreement on Friday related to economic harm from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill as well as separate litigation on coastal damage, bringing the state a step away from resolving all such claims. No details of the coastal damage agreement were released, as has been the case with other such deals. Previous coastal damage settlements with other major oil companies have been placed under court-ordered seal at the request of the parties involved. The secret nature of the coastal damage settlements have raised concerns among some coastal advocacy groups over whether the state has

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Interpretation of Endangered Species Act changing Advocates say shift puts wildlife at risk BY MARGARET KATES Staff writer

When it came time to release 14 captivity-bred yellow and brown Louisiana pinesnakes into the Kistachie National Forest, it was important to ﬁnd just the right spot. The threatened constrictors needed an expanse of some 7,000 acres of longleaf pine forest with plenty of pocket gopher holes to

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thrive. Researchers carried the pinesnakes to an ideal place under the tree canopy, recalled Lindsay Reeves, who attended several such releases in her role as a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental law group. They put them down near a gopher hole or hollow stump. In a ﬂash, every snake disappeared underground. “It’s like they know this is where they’re supposed to be,” Reeves said.

Destruction of the snake’s longleaf pine forest habitat without mitigation would have historically been considered a violation of the federal Endangered Species Act, as the Louisiana pinesnake is threatened and one of the rarest snakes in the U.S. But a new interpretation of the landmark law is easing that rule. Proponents argue the law has been applied too broadly, and the changes are needed to pave the way for economic and energy development. Environmental advocates argue that changing the

rule could have far-reaching consequences for some of the country’s rarest animals, including the pinesnake, whooping crane and gopher tortoise in Louisiana. The new federal stance coincides with an industrial boom in the state; more than $259 billion in economic development projects have been announced since 2024, raising questions about the habitat-rich land and swamps surrounding many of them. The federal government’s new

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Louisiana pinesnakes were released into the Kisatchie National Forest after destruction of the snake’s longleaf pine forest ä See SPECIES, page 3A habitat.

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Gunmen open fire at church in Jordan

JERUSALEM — Gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, authorities said. The shooting took place at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 110 miles south of the capital, Amman. Footage broadcast on Jordanian state television showed two gunmen who appear to be holding pistols approaching the church and firing shots. A third man who appears to be holding a semiautomatic rifle then approaches and opens fire, and all three then run toward the church. Video footage taken by witnesses shows broken glass and pools of blood on the floor of the church. Dorgham Halasa, who was among the mourners inside the church, said intense gunfire erupted 15 minutes after the funeral had started, and then people started running. “It was a weird situation, and heavy gunfire,” Halasa said. He did not see the gunmen, but said other people reported seeing four of them. The Associated Press could not independently verify the number of assailants, and Jordan’s security services did not immediately release details. A government statement said that the attack was “carried out by unknown assailants,” but didn’t say whether any gunmen were captured or killed. It said that “investigations are underway at full speed.”

First tanker of Russian diesel sets sail for U.S.

A first tanker carrying Russian diesel to the United States under a new import agreement has set sail, the Kremlin said Friday, two weeks after President Donald Trump said he struck a deal with President Vladimir Putin despite Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “The first oil tanker has sailed off to customers, and regular supplies will continue,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said without elaborating. The diesel deal was seen as an attempt by Trump to address high fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections. It caused alarm and dismay in Ukraine, which has pleaded with foreign countries to tighten sanctions on Moscow and deny it revenue for the invasion launched in February 2022. In the U.S., the agreement was also criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for violating American laws and drawing the country closer to Russia. The deal joins a growing list of actions in which the Republican president has sided with Putin, often at Ukraine’s expense. Marine intelligence firm Kpler said the vessel signaled that it was headed to New York to arrive Nov. 7 and would be the first Russian diesel delivery to the United States since July 2023. The import agreement, which Trump says foresees millions more tons of Russian diesel reaching the U.S. in the coming months, is unlikely to make a dent in painfully high prices at the pump or elsewhere, energy policy experts say.

Defense: Kirk killing trial prep will take years

Defense attorneys for the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk are suggesting a 2029 trial date because they say it could take them that long to prepare their case. Attorneys for Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, said Thursday that the defense’s proposed schedule was “absurd” and defendant Tyler Robinson was simply trying to delay. Utah District Court Judge Tony Graf has scheduled a Friday hearing to set a trial date. Robinson pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder in last year’s killing of Kirk while the ally of President Donald Trump spoke to a crowd of several thousand people at Utah Valley University. The 23-year-old defendant turned himself in a day after the shooting, and his lawyers have not offered alternative theories for Kirk’s death. He could be eligible for the death penalty if convicted.

by FBI Director Kash Pair accused of effort Patel, who before taking the nation’s premier lying to Congress over law enforcement agency

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President Donald Trump speaks Friday during a campaign rally at Alico Arena on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Fla.

Trump revives idea of intervention in Cuba President speaks at South Florida rally

BY MEG KINNARD and JOSH BOAK

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Friday told a rally for candidates in South Florida that U.S. warships returning from the Middle East could stop over in Cuba on their way back from the Iran war, his latest suggestion of taking an interventionist approach to the nearby country. Trump first floated this idea earlier this year, but has not mentioned it in recent months. But he revived it in response to a shouted question from the crowd about the island nation. He was campaigning just days ahead of midterm elections in which voters have expressed concern about the impact the U.S. war on Iran has had on prices of goods from gas to groceries. “We’ll do a little stopover,” Trump said. “Actually, what we’re going to do with Cuba is, we’re going to come back from Iran. Those beautiful ships will pass Cuba. We’ll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast. They’ll raise up their hands. And then we’re going to send (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal.” Both Rubio and Trump have been bullish on action in Cuba, with Trump previously suggesting the country would “be next” in terms of intervention abroad, following the winding down of the Iran war he has long forecast but which has not yet happened. In May, he and Rubio raised the specter of U.S. military intervention in Cuba, a renewed threat that took on greater weight after the administration announced criminal charges against the island’s former leader, Raúl Castro. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that previous U.S. presidents had considered intervening in Cuba for decades but that “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.” Rubio told reporters separately that Cuba has been a national security threat

for years because of its ties to U.S. adversaries and that Trump is intent on addressing it. While saying the Trump administration wants to resolve differences with Cuba peacefully, Rubio voiced doubts that the U.S. could reach a diplomatic resolution with the island’s current government. Moments after Trump spoke at the rally, Rubio posted on social media that “now is the time” for action on Cuba, addressing his post “to those who seek to create positive change” and urging them “to seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.” Rubio has not addressed Cuba in depth in public for several weeks, with his last comments coming in a Sept. 29 interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “The truth is Cuba has already fallen. It doesn’t have a functional economy and it’s governed by people who continue to preach about some revolution that has been dead for 20 years that’s never worked,” Rubio said, without alluding to any CIA operation. “We are hopeful that Cuba will choose a different path. We are hopeful … that there will be some people in there that open their eyes to the reality of what they’re facing,” he said. “We’re never going to allow Cuba to become a base of operation against American interests or pose a threat to our national security. On that we are abundantly clear.” Rubio and other top Trump aides have met with Cuban ofﬁcials in recent months to explore possible improvements in relations. But the U.S. side has come away unimpressed from those talks, leading to even more sanctions imposed on the Cuban government. During his address to the United Nations General Assembly last month, Trump said Rubio — son of Cuban immigrants, who has long taken a hard line against Cuba’s socialist leadership — was “deep into negotiations with Cuba,” saying he would “not allow a haven for foreign adversaries to threaten America on our own doorstep.”

Israeli military says 2 soldiers killed in West Bank attack Authorities say 2 gunmen dead

BY SHLOMO MOR and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Two Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank that also left two suspected gunmen dead Friday morning, the military said. The violence is likely to heighten political tensions and security concerns ahead of next week’s parliamentary election. Staff Sgt. Ron Yonatan Roytman, 23, and Sgt. Yuval Shai Svilem, 20, were killed and three others were lightly wounded during the attack near the Yehuda Junction outside the West Bank city of Hebron, the army said. The army said its soldiers had prevented a “terror attack against Israeli civilians” and that the two suspects, both Palestinians from Hebron, used an M16 rifle and a handgun. It said the men arrived at an Israeli military position in the morning, triggering an exchange of fire lasting approximately 20 minutes, after which the gunmen were killed by Israeli troops. The army said its forces prevented the men from advancing toward civilians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later visited the attack site as his office instructed security forces to immediately cordon off Hebron and prepare for a full closure of the West Bank, starting Friday. Israel will retaliate with a sweeping anti-terror operation in the Hebron neighborhood where the gunmen lived, Netanyahu said. “We will evacuate the residents, we will go house-by-house, we will also remove

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Israeli soldiers gather Friday at the scene of a shooting attack carried out by Palestinian gunmen at a junction near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

the weapons there, and all the terror infrastructure will be dealt with and destroyed,” Netanyahu said. Israeli voters are deciding Tuesday whether to grant Netanyahu yet another term in ofﬁce — or usher in a new era of Israeli politics three years after Hamasled attacks triggered the war in Gaza. Israel’s government has warned of potential attacks by the country’s “enemies” in the lead-up to the election. Netanyahu later met with his Security Cabinet and top military and security ofﬁcials, and blamed Hamas for Friday’s attack. “Our brave soldiers thwarted this attack with courage and determination,” he said. “I commend them for their actions and wish our wounded a speedy recovery.” Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, known for extremist views, said the attack shows Israel needs to restrict the Palestinians’ freedom of movement in the West Bank.

WASHINGTON — Two former FBI officials were charged Friday with lying to Congress about their involvement in investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, the latest in a series of splashy and politically charged actions the Justice Department has undertaken ahead of next month’s midterm contests. Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, former leaders of a since-disbanded task force set up to counter foreign election interference, appeared in federal court in Washington, where their lawyers pressed for a speedy hearing to contest allegations their clients lied to lawmakers by saying that they did not participate in FBI investigations of Biden. The prosecution, a rare Department of Justice criminal case against a former employee, revisits a tangled and peculiar saga that roiled the ﬁnal weeks of the 2020 race. It also comes amid a broader, backward-looking

was a harsh critic of it, to scrutinize high-profile episodes from the bureau’s recent past that for years have animated President Donald Trump’s conservative base. Floris’ attorneys called her “a patriot” and said she has “served our nation as a dedicated FBI intelligence ofﬁcer for nearly 20 years.” “Yet today, the DOJ has accused her falsely of a crime on the say-so of politicians, not on the facts,” her attorneys said in a statement. “It’s no coincidence the government is ﬁling these nonsense charges now, years later, on the eve of an election.” Attorneys for Benavides accused the government of bringing “baseless criminal charges against him in a transparently political complaint.” “This is another sad day for the Department of Justice,” his lawyers said in an emailed statement. “But now we are in court, and the truth will come out: Brad Benavides is a true patriot who devoted his career to protecting this country and its people. These charges are a disgrace.”

Mayor: Officer who killed boy in Miss. resigned By The Associated Press The police officer who shot and killed a 1-year-old boy in Mississippi when he fired into a moving vehicle while responding to a shoplifting call has resigned, the Senatobia mayor told The Associated Press Friday. Sgt. Hunter Foster, 33, had been cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Mississippi Attorney General’s office earlier this week after its monthslong probe concluded his use of force had been justified. On Thursday, the state released videos of the fatal shooting of Kohen Wiley, in-

cluding Foster’s body-worn camera footage of the June 14 encounter in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, about 40 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee. Senatobia Mayor Greg Graves confirmed Foster’s resignation Friday. Foster’s attorney Martin Zummach declined to comment when reached Friday. Zummach has said Foster had “no choice” but to fire his weapon at the vehicle because it was moving at him. Kohen’s mother, Vellesiya Wiley, has disputed that her friend, who was driving, headed toward the officers.

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Continued from page 1A more power than Meta will need to power its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish once it’s fully built out. Venture Global, which generates all of its own electricity and water on-site at private power plants that are not connected to the public grid — an arrangement known as “island mode” — would use some of the additional electricity to power its LNG facilities. It is aiming to provide the excess to another large industrial user, like an AI hyperscaler in need of “compute,” Venture Global CEO Mike Sabel said in a statement. “These new agreements (with GE Vernova and Baker Hughes) outline a phased, disciplined expansion to make reliable, largescale power capacity available for new compute as and when we elect,” Sabel’s statement said. The announcement comes as the global explosion of new AI data

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Continued from page 1A interpretation of the Endangered Species Act hinges on two words: “harm” and “take.” For decades, federal agencies considered destroying an endangered or threatened species’ habitat to be harm. But as of September, President Donald Trump’s administration said it would no longer consider that to be true under their interpretation of the act’s original intent. The act’s core protections remain in place, administrators for the Interior Department assured in a news release over the summer: It still will protect listed wildlife from acts that “directly injure or kill.” But it will remove federal overreach with regulations that interfered with people’s private property rights. “This administration is committed to protecting wildlife using Gold Standard Science, the law and the tools Congress actually gave us,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik said in the news release. “We can protect species and respect communities at the same time.” A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service internal memo went a step further in September and stated that the deﬁnition of “take” of an endangered or threatened species would only apply to intentional acts. Environmental advocates, including the Louisiana Wildlife Federation, sued the government, aiming to get the changes reversed. In the meantime, endan-

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Continued from page 1A been too generous with the terms. Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill have worked to settle the outstanding claims that have involved major oil companies, including Exxon, Chevron, BP and others. “We have now disposed of claims and settled with all but one of the major defendants in these coastal cases,” Landry said in a statement. “This sends a signal to job creators all over America that Louisiana welcomes jobs and economic growth while responsibly dealing with the issues of the past.” The governor is currently in Paris for the Saints game and his spokesperson did not respond to a request for further details. John Carmouche, the lawyer who has represented Louisiana parishes in the suits, also did not respond to requests for comment. Landry did not name the last major defendant left to settle the coastal suits, but it is likely Chevron, whose case has been tied up in court. A Plaquemines Parish jury delivered a $745 million verdict against Chevron last year, but the U.S. Supreme Court has since weighed in, essentially siding with the oil ﬁrm in its argument that the case

centers, which consume massive amounts of electricity, is creating unprecedented demand for new sources of power generation. Sabel said Venture Global’s plans for Louisiana could help address the need. “By providing Island-Mode power generation, gas supply, closedloop water systems, thousands of acres of land, data centers, and other necessary infrastructure, Venture Global is creating a vertically integrated AI utility that could solve for the many chokepoints associated with the AI buildout,” his statement said. Because Venture Global’s LNG export facilities operate completely off the public grid, the company would not need approval from the Louisiana Public Service Commission to build the new power plants or sell excess electricity to other users. It would, however, need to secure permits from other federal, state and parish regulators. AI data centers have sparked organized pushback over the past year in much of the country, though not in Louisiana, because

of the massive amounts of power they consume, their adverse impacts on the quality of life in nearby communities and general concerns over the rapid spread of artificial intelligence. It’s not clear if Venture Global is in talks with a specific hyperscaler like Google or Amazon Web Services or if a deal is imminent. In a statement Friday, a Venture Global spokesperson said local communities would have an opportunity to weigh in on any proposed data center deal. “The agreement with GE Vernova and Baker Hughes simply reserves the right for Venture Global to purchase future power equipment to support our LNG business and potential future data center development,” the statement said. “Any potential future expansion, stemming from the power agreement, would of course be coordinated with state and local officials and — like our current projects — would have no reliance on the public grid or water utilities and, therefore, no added costs to Louisiana consumers.”

gered species are at risk, said Steven Whitfield, director of terrestrial and wetlands conservation at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans. “If we don’t go back to the old definition of harm, we could lose more species,” Whitfield said. “Destruction happens much quicker than recovery.” For a species like the Louisiana pinesnake, habitat protection is critical, Whitfield said. The Audubon Zoo has released 58 pinesnakes into the wild over the course of about 30 years, according to its website. The four-foot-long constrictors live in longleaf pine forests, a fire-dependent ecosystem that once dominated the Southeast but has been dramatically reduced. When the pinesnakes are released into the wild, researchers look for longleaf pine habitat that has been burned recently, to clear out underbrush and debris from the forest floor. Only about 5.2 million acres of longleaf pine forest remain in the U.S., a fraction of the 90 million acres the forest historically occupied, according to The Nature Conservancy. “When you talk about protecting a species, you need to be able to think about the habitat itself,” said Mitch Reid, a regional executive director at the conservancy. “If the purpose of the (Endangered Species Act) is to prevent extinction, then we need to have a conversation about what all species need to survive and thrive.” Dozens of other endangered and threatened species rely on longleaf pine forest habitat, too. “They’re so interconnected,” he said.

The new interpretation of endangered species regulations could make it harder to hold companies accountable for injuring species or destroying habitat, Whitﬁeld said. Under the Endangered Species Act, the federal government prohibits “taking” endangered and threatened species. “Take” refers to 10 actions: harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, collect, or attempting any of those actions. For many years, “take” applied to both intentional and unintentional acts. But federal agencies now only consider “take” when it’s intentional, according to an internal memo obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity. The U.S. Department of the Interior, which houses the ﬁsh and wildlife service, confirmed to news outlets that the memo reflects its new policy. “The Service remains committed to faithfully carrying out the ESA, providing regulatory clarity and certainty while conserving and recovering threatened and endangered species in accordance with the law,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told The Times-Picayune in an email. Local environmentalists will be watching to ensure compliance with the two dozen economic project planned or underway in the state, including the $100 billion SpaceX development in southwest Louisiana and $50 billion Meta data center in Richland Parish. A precarious population of whooping cranes lives just across from the forthcoming SpaceX development in Vermilion Parish.

belongs in federal court. Beginning more than a decade ago, some 42 suits have been ﬁled by Louisiana parishes seeking compensation for coastal damage from oil companies. The yearslong saga now appears to be nearing an end. In June, Landry announced a settlement with Exxon, and that deal has also played a role in SpaceX’s decision to build a major spaceport in the Pecan Island area of coastal Louisiana. Exxon donated a 125,000-acre site in Vermilion Parish to the state, which then sold it to SpaceX for $100 million. The coastal damage lawsuits were intended to hold the oil companies responsible for pollution and land loss long afflicting Louisiana. Oil and gas activity along the coast has been an important factor in Louisiana’s land loss crisis, which in recent years has seen the state lose a football ﬁeld of land every 84 minutes on average, according to USGS data. The lawsuits were seen as a way of partly addressing a looming funding cliff for the state when it comes to coastal projects. Fines and settlement dollars related to the 2010 BP spill have provided some $8.5 billion for Louisiana restoration projects, but that money expires by 2032. The second part of the BP agreement announced Fri-

day is separate and does not deal speciﬁcally with coastal damage. It is related to an earlier, 2015 settlement for economic and other claims from Gulf Coast states over the Deepwater Horizon tragedy. Under the new economic damages agreement, BP’s payments of the remaining $373 million to Louisiana, initially due in installments over the next seven years, will be replaced with a single disbursement of around $350 million, the oil company said in a statement. That money is separate from the $8.5 billion set aside for coastal restoration. “We will never forget the 11 men who lost their lives, or the impact on their families, communities and the environment across the Gulf Coast,” BP CEO Meg O’Neill said in a statement. “Deepwater Horizon was a tragedy that forever changed BP, and the lessons we learned continue to guide how we operate today.” The Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and collapsed into the Gulf in the 2010 tragedy, resulting in the largest spill in the history of marine oil drilling. Oil gushed into the Gulf for 87 days, with an estimated 4.9 million barrels spilled. BP says it currently has more than 800 employees in Louisiana, with major operations in the Haynesville Shale area and the Gulf.

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Plaquemines Parish President Kevin Hinkley did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday afternoon. Venture Global has become an emerging player in the global LNG market, which is largely centered in Louisiana. More than 60% of the nation’s 5.5 trillion cubic feet of LNG exports last year traveled through the state The company currently operates Plaquemines LNG in Port Sulphur and Calcasieu Pass LNG in Cameron Parish. It is building a third terminal, Calcasieu Pass 2, or CP2, and recently received ﬁnal regulatory approval for an $18 billion expansion of its Plaquemines Parish facility, which cost more than $23 billion to construct. The expansion would bring the total maximum production capacity of the facility to 45 million tons per year from the current 27 million. Venture Global also owns or controls thousands of acres of land immediately adjacent to its facilities in both parishes where it would build the new power plants and data centers.

One of the most iconic endangered species in the country, the crane was almost driven to extinction because its feathers were so desirable. The cranes are still exceedingly rare today: the Audubon institute estimates there are just 834 in existence. The Audubon Zoo was the ﬁrst place in the U.S. where whooping cranes were tended to by humans in the 1940s, Whitﬁeld said. Today, the white birds are bred at the Audubon’s species survival center in Lower Coast Algiers and released in southwestern Louisiana. The zoo says the goal is to create a self-sustaining whooping crane population in the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area in Vermilion Parish. The conservation area lies near Pecan Island, where SpaceX’s 10 launchpads are planned. Extending “take” to include actions that aren’t intended to impact endangered species, such as clearing habitat, is a provision that “makes the act really effective,” Whit-

If the deals come to fruition, they would be executed by 2034, the company said. Gregory Upton, executive director of the LSU Center for Energy Studies, said the potential arrangement makes sense for Venture Global, particularly as large industrial users increasingly power their facilities “behind the meter.” “Louisiana already has a signiﬁcant amount of existing on-site generation at LNG export terminals, refineries, chemical plants pulp and paper mills,” Upton said. “On-site generation may reduce the need for utility-ﬁnanced infrastructure and could facilitate economic development.” Such arrangements are not without potential pitfalls, however. Regulators need to address whether the deals can support new demand while “maintaining reliability and appropriately assigning costs to the customers responsible for them — and the potential implications for the lost opportunity to share infrastructure and other costs more broadly,” Upton said.

ﬁeld said. He said he’s worried the impact to the cranes, though unintentional, could be expansive. The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry did not advocate or participate in discussions about the federal rule changes, said Patrick Robinson, the association’s vice president of government relations. But its members support “common sense deregulation and permitting predictability, balancing responsible economic growth with stewardship for Louisiana’s unique environment,” Robinson said in an email. In August, Gov. Jeff Landry told CBS News he wasn’t concerned about the environmental impact, arguing instead the spaceport will provide the necessary funds for coastal restoration in the area. A road and wharf to be built as part of the spaceport likely will have no effect on whooping cranes, according to a study commissioned by SpaceX earlier this year. The company has not yet submitted permits for the

vast majority of the development, however. Conservation is already challenging, Whitfield argues. When breeding new whooping cranes, for example, biologists dress up as cranes to prevent the chicks from having any “human” contact, as the chicks can imprint on humans. But Whitfield and other environmental advocates aren’t giving up. In fact, these changes only “strengthen our resolve,” he said. Most people want to protect plants and animals, Whitﬁeld said. He said he’s optimistic that future administrations will revert to the old interpretation of the Endangered Species Act. “People really do care about wildlife,” Whitfield said. “Whooping cranes have better approval ratings than any politician.”

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Landry touts La. ties at economic summit BY JEFF DUNCAN Staff writer

PARIS — Gov. Jeff Landry wanted to set the record straight. He felt compelled to reestablish priorities as he addressed the packed room of international corporate executives, state delegates and French dignitaries on Friday at the Louisiana Department of Economic Development’s “Louisiana Now” summit. “This room is full, not only because the Saints are playing a game Sunday and not only because all of you ladies wanted to get a nice purse, but it is ﬁlled with investment because of the amount of economic opportunity you’re seeing in Louisiana,” Landry said. Admittedly, it would have been easy for Landry’s message to get lost in the opulent surroundings, as he stood underneath an 18th-century crystal chandelier and in front of a marble hearth and floor-toceiling bronze mirror at the gilded Hotel Salomon de Rothschild. His 11-minute speech culminated a full day of business sessions at the LED event and punctuated the state’s transatlantic mission during the week, leading to the kickoff of the New Orleans Saints’ game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. State and local officials have used the game as an opportunity to forge ties with French political and business leaders. On Friday, New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno held meetings with Paris Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire and ofﬁcials from UNESCO, the United Nations organization that has bestowed designations on New Orleans recognizing its cultural heritage. She also held discussions about water management with French environmental-services company Veolia, which has operations in New Orleans. Saints owner Gayle Benson met with French President Emmanuel Macron. The LED event was anchored by a packed slate of high-level business forums designed to pitch Lou-

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The Louisiana Economic Development gathering drew a crowd in France on Friday.

next-generation global investment. Panel discussions ranged from AI investment to expanding energy initiatives to leveraging the state’s historic Francophone identity as a distinct pipeline for bilingual education, corporate partnerships and workforce recruitment. The sessions were led and attended by a roster of heavy hitters from across city and state government and the business sector, including Susan Bourgeois, secretary, LED; Drew Marsh, CEO of Energy; Pete November, president and CEO of Ocshner Health; Michael Hecht, CEO, GNO, Inc.; Greg Rusovich, coGov. Jeff Landry shows off his Who Dat hat translated into French as he chairman, UTC-Transoceanic/ meets with business and government leaders in Paris on Friday. YPO Gold Louisiana; Phillip May, president/CEO of Entergy Louiisiana’s economic mission in the technology, global energy part- siana; Senate President Cameron international capital. Across ﬁve nerships and transatlantic trade Henry, R-Metairie; Paige Carter, targeted panel sessions, the sum- in an effort to connect Louisiana’s chief business development ofﬁmit featured sessions on frontier historical industrial strengths with cer, LED; and Adam Peters, CEO,

North America, Air Liquide. Throughout the afternoon, executive exchanges brought state ofﬁcials together with European founders and multinational leaders who have already poured billions into Louisiana. “It’s been an extremely productive day,” said Walt Leger III, president and CEO of New Orleans & Co. “Having the game allows you to organize around it. We’ve had a chance to work with travel leaders and travel buyers who package travel to the United States and have also had some touchpoints with the NFL, as we’re obviously all working in concert to bring the next (Super Bowl) to the city. These things are really amazing opportunities, and I’m glad we’re a part of it.” Afterward, a reception featured Champagne and classic French hors d’oeuvres, including gougères, foie gras tartlets, smoked salmon blinis and goat cheese tartes. Landry’s speech came on the heels of an unprecedented run of economic development in Louisiana, headlined by Meta’s multi-billion-dollar hyperscale data center development in northeast Louisiana and landmark aerospace and logistics commitments from Elon Musk’s SpaceX. He said the summit comes at a key time, when “the bond between Louisiana and France feels especially alive.” He said he believes the economic development investment in the state could rise to $350 billion by next year. “There is so much of a history between Louisiana and France, and today, that culture of capital is being matched by unprecedented economic opportunity,” Landry said. “Those announcements are not just press releases or headlines on a (piece) of paper. They’re steel mills, digital factories and LNG facilities, which, by the way, Europe desperately needs. While it is history that has brought Louisiana and France together, it is opportunity that’s going to keep us even closer.”

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Superdames Aimee Eikel, from left, Liz Broekman and Deni Stott take photos with Parisians outside their hotel in Paris on Friday.

Continued from page 1A “Whistle Monsta” is the most recognizable of them all, but he’s far from alone. There are Saints fans from all over the United States — Sean and Denise Alveshire are visiting from their home in Orlando, Florida; Deni Stott flew from New York to join her “Superdame” friends; Katherine Becker is a Connecticut native who flew in from her Tallahassee home to meet her New Yorker sister. All of them are wearing black and gold in various states of sparkle, screaming Who Dat at anybody they see in their colors on the Parisian streets. It has been an interesting time to be an American in Paris. The U.S. President, Donald Trump, recently expressed concern about the recent unrest in Paris, with the people of France protesting the high cost of living. Trump suggested the NFL could have postponed the game amid the protests. “I think maybe it’s looking like (Saturday) is going to be a bad day in France, so you worry about it,” Trump told reporters. “I would have said the NFL could have probably postponed that match ... because France is really in trouble.” Those who made the trip to France have not yet seen anything to suggest they should fear for their safety — even if they know what they have seen is not necessarily reﬂective of what has happened when they were not there. “Everything was clean,” Stott said. “It’s like Mardi Gras, like the next morning it’s done. We did see at Jardin des Tuileries people sandblasting grafﬁti off the walls, which was kind of sad. But I have not felt unsafe at all.” Most are simply relishing the opportunity. Stott is one of four in the group of “Superdames” who will attend Sunday’s game. She is considered an “honorary” member because she attends only a handful of games per year as a New York resident. This is not one she, nor her friends, would have missed. Liz Broeckman, another of

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the Superdame krewe who wear a Superdome-shaped headpiece along with a custom cape, had a simple reason why she was visiting Paris from her New Orleans home. “The connection of the cities is very parallel,” Broekman said. “I just wanted to be here — I wanted to be here. I think it’s an iconic time.” Sunday’s game will be the ﬁrst NFL game in the history of France, which was a huge draw for a lot of people. In fact, it’s partially why Mitchell’s itinerary was so full shortly after his arrival in Paris on Sunday afternoon. Mitchell visited France this summer with his wife and somehow found himself getting introduced to Emily Vidrine, the Louisiana Cultural Ambassador to France. Not three days after he landed in Paris with no itinerary, he said he was inside the U.S. embassy, whistling the tune to “Stand Up and Get Crunk.” “The acoustics in that place were unbelievable,” Mitchell said. He views this as part of his mission this week, too. “My goal is to bridge the gap between Parisian football fans and American football fans,” Mitchell said. “... I’m stoked about the New Orleanians being here.” For most, though, the goal

is not so lofty. Most of those who have spent their hard-earned money and vacation time on a trip abroad — some have brought family along with them — are seeking that je ne sais quoi in France that reminds them of home. This is, after all, a Saints home game. “It’s funny to see what the blueprint was for New Orleans,” said Marley Phipps, who took the 11-hour ﬂight from Orange County, California, with her parents Chris and Sasha for the trip. “This feels like the blueprint.” Though Sasha lives in California, she grew up in the French Quarter and recently traced her New Orleans roots back to the 18th century. For others, the goal was simpler and grounded in their daily life. Alveshire and his wife, Denise, live in Orlando. They stumbled upon Saints fandom visiting a friend, going to a game and experiencing something that was completely new and unique to them. They’ve held onto it for years, often traveling to one or two games per year. When Paris came up, especially this year, it was an easy call. “We had some personal issues this year with family that put things in perspec-

tive where we just need to live life, and do things and not wait,” Denise Alveshire said. Sean Alveshire added, “I’m 56, she’s 51, (life is short). My mother passed. (Denise)

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President Donald Trump on Friday said he told his administration to file its lawsuit to block certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, kicking off what many fear could become a lengthy battle between the government and states over certifying an election where the president’s party is struggling. “I’m the one that said do it,” Trump told reporters as he landed for a campaign rally in Florida. The lawsuit, filed late Thursday, centers on one of the president’s longstanding complaints in the Senate race — the presence of a second candidate named Dan Sullivan, who Republicans fear could siphon away votes from the incumbent in what’s likely to be a photo-ﬁnish contest with Democrat Mary Peltola, the state’s former congresswoman. The second Sullivan, who is Daniel J. Sullivan from the tiny ﬁshing community of Petersburg, has said he decided to run on his own, but Republicans have contended he is a Democratic plant to siphon votes away from their candidate. The lawsuit by the Republican president’s Department of Justice in federal court in Alaska demands that the state be blocked from certifying a Peltola win if Daniel J. Sullivan remains on the ballot. “The United States accordingly brings this lawsuit to protect the integrity of the 2026

the Department of Justice bolstering the Republican president’s political operation, targeting his enemies and suing Democratic-controlled states before the election. Democrats and many voting rights advocates have long feared that the administration will try to block certiﬁcation of elections that Trump’s party loses, much as he unsuccessfully tried to do when he lost the 2020 White House race to Democrat Joe Biden. The Alaska Supreme Court rejected a previous Republican effort to remove Daniel J. Sullivan from the ballot, and the state’s Republican ofﬁcials made the decisions about how to list him on the ballot. He will appear without a party designation next to his name, while the senator will be listed as the Republican incumbent. Alaska’s ranked choice voting system also will allow voters to select both of the men if confused. The senator received more than 68,000 votes in the August primary, while the challenging Sullivan got 4,107, about 2% of the total vote. Peltola, who had previously served one term in the House, was the top vote-getter in the nonpartisan primary. Both parties expect that whoever wins in November will do so by a tight margin in a state of 738,000 people. The campaign for Sen. Dan Sullivan did not address whether the senator supports the Department of Justice’s intervention. “We’ll let the DOJ complaint run its course,” campaign spokesman Nate Adams said in a

presence on the ballot is at issue in the lawsuit, did not respond to a request for comment. “Donald Trump knows that Dan Sullivan is going to lose the election, so now his Department of Justice is ﬁling a sham lawsuit to overturn the will of Alaska voters and steal an election when he loses,” said Devan Barber, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Peltola, on her Substack, wrote, “This is a blatant, despicable political threat — all because a historically unpopular 12-year incumbent is scared that he’s going to lose the Senate seat that belongs to Alaskans.” In a statement Friday, the Department of Justice noted that Alaska’s election officials, who are Republicans, determined the other Sullivan’s campaign was an attempt to “mislead” voters and wanted him removed from the ballot. Both a state court and Alaska’s Supreme Court disagreed and kept the second Sullivan on the ballot. “The Justice Department, consistent with the National Voter Registration Act enacted by Congress, is taking the necessary steps to ensure that this frivolous candidacy does not undermine the integrity of Alaska’s election or the will of its voters,” the department’s statement said.

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Woodfork wants jail rolls to shrink

Population ‘bursting at the seams,’ sheriff says BY VIOLET BUCARO Staff writer

Facing steep budget cuts, New Orleans elected ofﬁcials and agency heads pointed to the city’s swollen jail complex as a prime target for cost savings this week in City Council budget hearings. In asking for a budget increase, Sheriff Michelle Woodfork also said a hiring drought will delay the opening of a controversial, $92 million mental health wing known as

1,250. The Orleans Justice “Phase III” until next year. Center, the lockup built a Woodfork is asking for decade ago, has a capacity a 12% increase for next of 1,438 beds. year’s operations, and “We are just bursting at Mayor Helena Moreno’s the seams,” Woodfork said. proposed budget accomWoodfork, who took ofmodates the request with $58 million from the city, fice in May, said her office Woodfork including $25 million for might be able to operate the jail’s private medical within its current budget if provider. the jail population fell to 1,000, a The city’s jail complex housed figure it has surpassed since 2022. 1,430 inmates on Wednesday, far “To bring down our population, above a soft municipal cap of again, it takes the cooperation of

all of our criminal justice partners,” Woodfork said. “They need to move a little bit quicker.” Her appeal came as ofﬁcials with the Criminal Court, District Attorney’s Office and several council members highlighted the potential savings in a leaner lockup as Moreno’s administration looks to trim a $77 million deﬁcit. “One of the things I think I am going to ask all of the agencies here before us, today and tomorrow, is how do we get the jail population down?” Council member Lesli Harris said at the start of Wednesday’s budget hearing.

The Sheriff’s Ofﬁce reported an annual budget of $68.8 million, a $17 million increase from 2026, including added medical costs for the Phase III facility. Woodfork said the jail population included 122 state inmates awaiting transfers elsewhere. Scores of others are waiting to be moved or processed for probation or parole. A state corrections spokesperson did not respond to a request for information about the Orleans Parish population. “New Orleans has become a

ä See WOODFORK, page 3B

Carville to reign as king of Krewe du Vieux ‘I’ve finally got the recognition I’ve always sought,’ pundit says

BY DOUG MacCASH Staff writer

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ABOVE: Artists Joze Dara and Warren Adams work on a mural that is more than 3,000 square feet and wraps around Esplanade Avenue, Decatur Street and Frenchmen Street in New Orleans on Wednesday. LEFT: Steve and Adrianna Belletti walk past a mural in progress at the intersection of Decatur and Frenchmen streets in New Orleans on Thursday. STAFF PHOTOS BY SOPHIA GERMER

The next king of the eternally controversial Krewe du Vieux will be none other than Louisiana political ﬁrebrand James Carville, captain Yvonne Garret announced Friday ahead of the 40th annual parade. “I’ve finally got the recognition I’ve always sought,” said Carville, 81. “I’m very excited. This is the real Mardi Gras. It’s supposed to be stuCarville pid, drunken and debaucherous. It so expresses my values.” Carville, a St. Gabriel-reared, former Marine and LSU grad, has been among the nation’s most renowned political advisors and media pundits for decades. He famously consulted on the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and other Democratic candidates for the country’s highest ofﬁce. These days, Carville is known for his unapologetically frank assessments of the state of the nation, which he delivers in splintery soliloquies. He is, most would agree, the

ä See CARVILLE, page 2B

N.O. IG urges more info St. John the Baptist judge on pipe replacement plan suspended for second time S&WB should be proactive on project, he says

BY BEN MYERS Staff writer

As the Sewerage & Water Board tries to secure funding to replace lead water pipes, New Orleans Inspector General Ed Michel said the utility needs to communicate more proactively with the public about the risks of lead in water and the beneﬁts of replacing dangerous pipes. In a 14-page public letter this week, Michel said the S&WB has made important strides since 2017, when an OIG report faulted it for lacking a lead reduction strategy and failing to inform

the public about the risks of lead pipes. But he said the S&WB has not developed a comprehensive public health campaign, including community outreach specifically intended to inform the public about the benefits of lead line replacement. “Without fully implementing the OIG’s 2017 recommendations, the S&WB will continue to face major constraints in meeting federal mandates and protecting public health,” Michel said. Over the last eight years, the S&WB began offering free water filters and lead testing services, published educational materials on its website and mailed information to residents. It has also developed staff protocols to notify residents of nearby lead pipe

ä See PLAN, page 3B

the administration of justice.” judicial canons. Fiffie being Its order Thursday disquali“I do find it unfortunate, the timing,” he said of his disfied Fiffie with pay pending investigated for proceedings before the state qualification during election Judiciary Commission. season. alleged misconduct The order does not describe “Yes, I am still running. I’m

BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

The Louisiana Supreme Court has benched a state judge in St. John the Baptist Parish while he’s being investigated for alleged misconduct, marking the second time in two years that the court has removed him. The court found probable cause that Judge Vercell Fifﬁe “poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public or

Fiffie’s alleged misconduct. Court records, however, show the commission was concerned over a recent allegation that Fifﬁe failed to sign a bench warrant in time to arrest a convicted child rapist who remains at large. Fifﬁe, who is running for reelection, denied wrongdoing in a response to the court. He said Friday in a brief phone interview that he was reluctant to discuss the allegations for fear of violating

still on the ballot,” Fifﬁe added. “I’m still campaigning and I still intend on winning and returning to the bench. No. 72. Vote for me.” Fifﬁe faces Atoundra Pierre Lawson in the election. Both are Democrats. Early voting started this week and Election Day is Nov. 3. The Louisiana Supreme Court suspended Fiffie for six months without pay in

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Court: Immigrants have no right to bond hearings submitted in Louisiana federal or flight risk before they could be according to the plaintiffs’ argu- government to lock people up Decision upholds courts by people held in the state’s lawfully detained by immigration ments across some 18,000 habeas when detention plainly serves no ICE detention facilities. Plain- authorities pending their removal petitions filed since Trump retook purpose, and without any way to Trump administration 10 challenge it,” Cassler said. tiffs accused the government of proceedings,” wrote the majority office, a massive surge. Several dissenting judges delivLower courts had ruled in faviolating the U.S. Constitution by opinion’s Trump-appointed author, policy detaining them without due pro- Judge Cory Wilson. “Moreover, the vor of the Texas-based plaintiffs ered similarly blistering assess-

BY JAMES FINN Staff writer

Federal ofﬁcials can detain immigrants without allowing them to challenge their detention before judges, the New Orleans-based U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday, handing a major victory to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The decision delivered by the split federal appellate court upholds the administration’s policy of mandatory detention for noncitizens, including those who have lived in the country for years. In the past, such detainees would receive bond hearings where they could argue to judges that they wouldn’t ﬂee or commit crimes if they were allowed to remain free pending their immigration proceedings. Starting last year, the new policy eliminated the hearings, triggering thousands of habeas corpus petitions filed by immigrants in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Many were

cess. Friday’s ruling stemmed from one of those cases, Sosnava Rodriguez v. Ortega, a plea by three undocumented men without criminal records who lived in Texas before their arrests by ICE in late 2025 and early 2026. Ten judges concurred with the administration’s detention policy in Friday’s narrowly split decision. Seven judges dissented. The ruling represents a massive victory for one of the administration’s most contentious immigration policies — and it highlights the 5th Circuit’s expanding role as a bastion of support for conservative legal policy. The appellate court, which oversees appeals filed in federal district courts in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, has issued major rulings in recent years upholding conservative positions on abortion and the Voting Rights Act, among other causes. “We now conclude that Petitioners were not entitled to individual hearings on their dangerousness

duration of Petitioners’ detention presented no constitutional issues warranting habeas relief.” Two states in the 5th Circuit’s purview, Texas and Louisiana, lead the nation in the number of detainees held in ICE detention. The mandatory detention policy has emerged as a key plank of the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement campaign. The raging legal battle over the policy hinged on a shift in how the administration regarded legal rights afforded to undocumented people who had long lived in the U.S. After President Donald Trump retook ofﬁce, the administration began designating noncitizen U.S. residents, even those who had been in the country for years, as “seeking arrival” — a classiﬁcation that the government previously applied to people caught while crossing the U.S. border. The change stripped them of access to bond hearings, leaving them with no recourse if they had been unlawfully detained,

leading up to Friday’s ruling. A smaller panel of 5th Circuit judges also sided with the plaintiffs in February. But the full 5th Circuit stayed those decisions and took up the case as a full court on Sept. 24. In the September hearing, attorneys for the three men argued that the Constitution’s protections against imprisoning people without allowing them to challenge the terms of their detention apply to noncitizen immigrants as well as U.S. citizens. Attorneys for the men called Friday’s ruling an “affront to the U.S. Constitution.” “The principle at stake here is simple: if the government wants to detain someone, it has to explain why depriving them of their liberty is necessary. And anyone who is detained has the right to ask a judge for review of that detention,” said Rebecca Cassler, an attorney for the American Immigration Council who argued the case for the plaintiffs before the 5th Circuit. “Instead, this ruling allows the

LSU to increase safety on game days

to demonstrate a statement from the uni- negatively impact an othStricter measures strives in all we do,” LSU Presi- versity said. The state- erwise enjoyable experiWade Rousse said ment emphasized that stu- ence for fans, and that has include crowd dent in a statement Thursday. dent tailgates must end one to stop, now,” Rousse said. “Everyone attending an hour before kickoff. “The overwhelming majorcontrol LSU football game should People who violate LSU ity of our visitors to cam-

BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

After a brawl following LSU’s homecoming game Saturday that ended with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Ofﬁce deploying pepper balls, LSU is ramping up crowd control on game days. “I want to be clear that the behavior I witnessed this weekend is unacceptable and does not reflect the excellence that LSU

be able to enjoy the traditions that make Tiger fans proud.” The stricter measures will include enhanced foot and mobile patrols, with more intense monitoring of locations known for large gatherings. LSU will also establish “CLEAR distinctions” between what the university calls traditional tailgating and large-scale gatherings with DJs and live bands that arise during and after game time,

policy or the law may “face removal from campus,” with university disciplinary action or criminal enforcement where applicable, the statement said. The university will also focus on maintaining safe pedestrian routes and enhancing reporting resources for those who observe dangerous behavior, the statement said. “I recognize that large, uncontrolled crowds and disruptive behavior can

pus simply want to enjoy LSU with their family and friends.” The fight broke out between several women around 4:30 p.m. Saturday and was encouraged by the crowd, police said. The incident occurred near the Enchanted Forest, Pentagon and Greek Theater, according to LSU. Email Haley Miller at haley.miller@theadvocate. com.

Fort Polk soldier pleads guilty to online threats Man said he would ‘kill every single Jew’

BY MEGAN WYATT

Staff writer

A soldier stationed at Fort Polk has pleaded guilty to a federal charge that stemmed from his threats on a social networking platform earlier this year to bring an assault rifle into a synagogue “to kill every single Jew I know.” Jakob Joshua Marcoulier, a 22-year-old from Massachusetts, made the threats on Feb. 10 on the social networking platform Discord, court documents say. An Oct. 15 plea agreement says he was connected to the internet at the Fort Polk Army Base in Vernon Parish when he spoke the threats aloud to other users playing video games on the site.

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That led to an FBI tip from someone who believed the threat “sounded planned and thought out.” Marcoulier, who used the username el.bostino, believed no others would know his identity, according to the recent court ﬁlings. “After this deployment if the Jews still have reign over our government, I am going to walk into a synagogue with my AK (assault riﬂe)” and extra magazines of ammunition, Marcoulier said through Discord, court records show. “And I am going to kill every single Jew I know. Inside of that synagogue. “And that’s my goal in life, is to make sure the Jews never withstand the proper approval of Christ,” Marcoulier added. He taunted the other Discord users, saying others wouldn’t act on those types of threats. “But I will,” Marcoulier said, court records show.

too of-the-moment to plan very far ahead. But, if he were riding tomorrow, he’d dress up like Kim Guilfoyle, the former Fox News commentator who recently resigned as U.S. ambassador to Greece after accusations of malfeasance. Despite the krewe’s reputation for comic political criticism, Carville says he admires the group, because “they don’t judge.” “I hate judgmental people,” he said. When offered the customary salute “Hail King Carville,” the new monarch replied, “yeah, bow, scrape and grovel.” Krewe du Vieux will ramble through the Marigny and French Quarter on Jan. 23 ahead of Mardi Gras on Feb. 9, 2027.

perfect match for the French Quarter marching group known for brazen political satire, anatomical accuracy, brassy music and mulishness. As Garret put it in a text: “Our floats are best viewed by adults with a sense of humor and no plans to run for office. Carville qualifies on both counts.” Garret said that this year’s theme is “Krewe du Vieux: 40 Years Ragin’.” The theme of the 2027 parade is not based on Carville’s nickname Ragin’ Cajun, but, she said, “no one has said that to his face.” Asked if he had any special costuming plans for the Jan. 23 ride, he said Email Doug MacCash at the spirit of the krewe is dmaccash@theadvocate.com.

“I just have to finish this, I have to go back overseas and do what I have to do. And then you’ll see me in the news. I promise you.” He described himself as being “in the federal government.” He said he wanted to kill Jewish people “in order to make sure the white youth is f***ing secured.” Marcoulier was arrested April 23 and charged with one count of transmitting threats through interstate commerce. He pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas LeBlanc as part of an Oct. 15 plea agreement. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 21 by U.S. District Judge James Cain Jr. Katryna Lyn Spearman, his defense attorney, said Marcoulier will remain jailed until sentencing. “He pled to the charges in the indictment,” Spearman said. “We didn’t negotiate. He accepted responsibil-

ity.” Marcoulier faces up to five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine. “Antisemitic hate has no place in Louisiana or anywhere else, and our Office is committed to working with our federal partners to investigate threats that arise from that hate,” said U.S. Attorney Zachary Keller of Louisiana’s Western District, in a Thursday email. “This case, which arose from statements Mr. Marcoulier made on Discord, shows the importance of citizens reporting threats they encounter and that our law enforcement partners are taking those reports and tracking down those who terrorize others.” Christopher Surridge, an Army spokesperson, was not able to provide Marcoulier’s military status before deadline. Email Megan Wyatt at mwyatt@theadvocate.com.

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‘Ragin’ Cajun’ political strategist James Carville to reign as king of scandalous Krewe du Vieux Mardi Gras parade.

ments of the majority’s ruling. Judge Dana Douglas, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, castigated the ruling as resting on “sham history,” an assertion that drew barbs from several of her colleagues in the majority. “A country where a roaming police force must seek out millions of noncitizens for mandatory detention without meaningful process or recourse to even a rudimentary hearing is a less decent place for people like Petitioners who have led law-abiding lives, committed no crimes, and raised United States citizens,” Douglas wrote. Trump administration officials celebrated the ruling. “Big win in the Fifth Circuit on mandatory detention for illegal aliens, a principle codified in 1996 legislation but ignored by the deep state for decades,” James Percival, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security attorney, wrote on social media. Email James Finn at jfinn@theadvocate.com.

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Continued from page 1B October 2024 and ordered him to pay $9,000 in costs. The commission in that case found that Fiffie had repeatedly refused to sign search warrants, delaying investigations into child abuse, domestic violence and other acts. One of three judges elected to the 40th Judicial District Court in Edgard, Fiffie had rejected warrants at a 27% clip, a vastly higher rate than his colleagues. The high court also found that Fiffie had failed to comply with appeals court orders, misapplied the law and wouldn’t cooperate in court administrative matters. District Judge Nghana Lewis, also of St. John, and Sheriff Mike Tregre both filed complaints against Fiffie in that case, in which the Supreme Court took the rare step of imposing a harsher punishment than the commission recommended.

Actions in case questioned Records obtained Friday from the Supreme Court show the commission received several more complaints about Fiffie “that troublingly echo the conduct for which this court previously suspended him.” More recently, the commission received “a disturbing new complaint indicating that Judge Fiffie is arbitrarily delaying issuance of or refusing to issue bench warrants for criminal defendants, in one instance for a convicted child rapist who remains at large.” A state prosecutor complained to the commission that Fiffie had failed to sign a warrant for the arrest of a defendant named Dominique Linton. Convicted by a jury, Linton faces a mandatory life prison sentence for firstdegree rape and up to 99 years for sexual battery of a child, but he failed to show up to court on Aug. 3 for his sentencing, the commission said. Fiffie said he would sign the warrant by 4:30 p.m. that day but ended up waiting until the afternoon of Aug. 5 to do it. The same prosecutor created a chart alleging Fiffie delayed signing about 50 bench warrants or attachments. In one, Fiffie never ordered a bench warrant as requested on June 10 for a defendant named Zion Pierce. He was later indicted for a murder and armed robbery that took place five days later, the commission wrote. Fiffie didn’t respond initially to the commission’s allegations. But he defended his decisions on the warrants as “supported by law” in a response to the

court. In the case of Linton, the convicted child rapist, Fiffie blamed a court clerk for failing to alert him that a paper copy of the warrant was on his desk. He also blamed the defendant’s attorney. “The question of when did Mr. Linton flee is unknown and speculative,” Fiffie wrote. “A warrant could have been issued, without delay, had counsel for the defendant appeared and advised the court that his client was not going to appear,” he added. “The record before the court shows that Mr. Linton made every appearance when ordered.” The 14-member commission felt otherwise. It found the new complaint against Fiffie “demonstrates the grave and alarming consequences of his continued obstinance.” Linton remains on the lam, said Tregre, who said he couldn’t talk about the misconduct case against Fiffie. “Not until this matter has been fully investigated,” Tregre said.

Pay also under scrutiny The Supreme Court’s order Thursday says the suspension was based on a finding of probable cause that Fiffie violated judicial ethics rules. The commission’s request included an allegation that Fiffie sent Tregre and District Attorney Bridget Dinvaut, as well as the parish human resources director, an unusual order about an assistant’s pay. In it, he wrote that the assistant’s salary “should always and in perpetuity shall exceed that of any other secretary or judicial assistant” by $1,000, according to the commission. Fiffie’s “pattern of noncooperation continues to this day,” the commission alleges. Fiffie was elected for the first time to the bench in 2021. The Supreme Court’s order states the commission must wrap up its review within six months. Only the Supreme Court can recommend discipline for judges in Louisiana, up to removal from the bench.

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Proposed RV park courts SpaceX workers Property in Vermilion Parish pending regulations

BY KRISTIN ASKELSON

Staff writer

A proposed RV park near Kaplan is already advertising monthly spaces to workers expected to build SpaceX’s proposed $100 billion spaceport in coastal Vermilion Parish, adding a new dimension to the parish’s debate over how to regulate RV parks ahead of the anticipated development boom. The Rocket Farm, a proposed “contractor campground” on Farmer Road about 30 miles from the planned launch site, is advertising 17 RV spaces, including 14 for monthly rentals. The business is accepting reservations for $700 a month and marketing the property specifically to contractors working on the spaceport. “Your Home Base 30 Miles From

the Pad — Built for the Crews Building the Future,” the business says on its website. The property is being marketed as a long-term campground with full-hookup RV sites, metered electricity, level pull-through pads and free Starlink Wi-Fi. It offers multispot RV lot leases specifically tailored for industrial subcontractors and SpaceX crews. The website also touts the location’s proximity to downtown Kaplan. But the land sale for the proposed park has not closed and remains pending. Brison McPhail, identified as the owner in Louisiana Secretary of State business records, lists the property’s address as his own. The business was filed with the Secretary of State on Sept. 23. The plans come as the Vermilion Parish Police Jury considers new regulations for RV parks, including a proposed 50-space limit and a requirement that parks bordering residential neighborhoods install privacy fencing at their own

expense. The measures remain under consideration as jurors weigh how to accommodate anticipated growth while preserving the parish’s longstanding approach of allowing development in unincorporated areas without traditional zoning restrictions. The proposed SpaceX spaceport could bring thousands of construction workers and high-paying jobs to the region, increasing demand for housing and putting pressure on roads and other public infrastructure. Parish Administrator Keith Roy has argued that limits on RV parks are needed to protect neighboring property owners and prevent trafﬁc problems as new parks are developed. “Do you really want hundreds of RVs next to your house?” Roy asked during an earlier discussion of the proposal. “You need to protect the future for landowners as well. If everybody’s trying to go into the same spot, it’s going to

block off trafﬁc.” The proposed ordinance would prohibit RV parks from offering more than 50 on-site spaces and require privacy fencing for parks next to residential neighborhoods. Jurors have also been reviewing RV regulations in neighboring areas, including Cameron Parish, to see how other communities handle camper density and conﬂicts with nearby landowners. The proposal has drawn objections from jurors who question whether the parish should impose restrictions on one type of development while leaving other land uses largely unregulated. Council member Scott Broussard, a critic of the proposal, questioned whether residential subdivisions would face similar limits. “If they put up a subdivision, are we going to tell them how many houses they’re allowed to put up?” Broussard asked. Broussard also argued that developers building new subdivisions near existing RV parks should be

responsible for installing privacy fences if they want them. “They come in developing knowing that there’s an RV park next door,” he said. “It’s really on them to build that privacy fence if they want it.” Broussard has argued that the parish’s lack of zoning restrictions is part of what makes it attractive to businesses such as SpaceX. A 2014 parish resiliency report discussed the possibility of introducing zoning ordinances in unincorporated areas, but the parish ultimately did not pursue those plans. The potential spaceport development has renewed questions about whether the parish has the regulations and staffing needed to manage a surge in construction and new businesses. The parish’s permit office, for example, is staffed by one person. “One person’s definitely not going to be enough to staff that office,” Broussard said during an earlier discussion. “The time to get things together is now.”

Families get help visiting incarcerated relatives More than 100 participate in NOLA to Angola Bike Ride fundraiser

NOLA to Angola Bike Ride organizers gather at their start location in Mid-City on Friday. The bike ride is meant to help families seeking to visit their incarcerated loved ones.

who struggle to afford to visit loved ones incarcerated in Louisiana prisons, is one some riders especially take to heart this year, given a swell in detainees held at the new Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center opened at the prison last year thanks to the federal government’s hard-lined policies. State data show that 194 detainees are being held at that center. In its 16th year, the bike ride culminates months of fundraising efforts to support a full year of monthly bus rides for families to see their loved ones at no cost, visits that criminal justice advocates say are critical for mental well-

being and reduced reentry rates. “It’s the thing that keeps you remembering that you’re human, that you’re alive, that you have a heart, and that you’re still a person despite the borders of jails and prisons,” said Wan Qi Kong, a Nola to Angola organizer. The funds the project raises helps to cover operating costs for the Cornerstone Builders Bus Project, a program by the Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans that organizes transportation for families from New Orleans to four state prisons. Riders raised $54,000 this year largely through individual online donation campaigns. The average

cost to rent a 55-passenger motorcoach for each trip is $2,400, according to Cornerstone. As riders secured their helmets Friday, speakers performed a “blessing of the bikes” prayer to send them off. It called for guidance and reﬂection to navigate a throng of systemic injustices beyond mass incarceration that draw riders to the effort each year. Camp 57, named after Gov. Jeff Landry — the 57th Louisiana governor, opened on the grounds of Angola last September — armed with an inﬂux of federal funding that pays a private contractor more than four times the cost of housing state prisoners in parish jails. Ride organizers say the know little of the intimate details about the center, but they’ve made strides in raising awareness around the larger context of hostility toward immigrants they say exists in throughout the state. The Alexandria International Airport in central Louisiana now leads the nation in the number of deportations to “third countries” where immigrants often have few ties. The ride offers multiple options for cyclists of all abilities. A oneday option allows some riders to go a shorter route. Support vehicles are in tow the whole way in case a medic or a mechanic is needed.

service lines, Michel said. He also said the S&WB should more proactively distribute the water filters and testing kits, which are now only provided when residents request them. S&WB spokesperson Ceara Labat said Michel’s letter “reﬂects signiﬁcant progress and commitment to public health and safety since the initial report in 2017.” Federal regulations adopted during the Biden administration require water utilities to inventory and replace lead water lines

by 2037, and Michel noted the S&WB’s initial efforts to replace an estimated 85,000 lead pipes across the city. A program manager, CDM Smith, was contracted this year, an inventory of all service lines is underway and a handful of replacements near schools have already been completed. Meanwhile, a state constitutional amendment on the Nov. 3 ballot would allow the S&WB to use public funds to replace lead pipes on private property. If the

amendment succeeds, it will allow the S&WB to begin using some of the $152 million in state and federal funding for service lines that extend beyond the public pipe network. “We have met all current regulatory deadlines, proactively sought funds that will SWBNO to replace lead service lines at no cost to the customer and provided water pitchers to customers,” Labat said in a text. Labat said major construction on the pipe replacement is sched-

BY JONI HESS Staff writer

Daniel Garcia can remember how tough it was to visit his father in a Texas detention center, after he was detained by immigration authorities when Garcia was 5 years old. His dad was later deported. He didn’t return home until Garcia was in middle school. That’s why the NOLA to Angola Bike Ride, a 172-mile trek to raise funds to pay for transportation for families to see their loved ones behind bars, is a cause he had to support, he said. “I felt that this ride was super important to really help alleviate families of that logistical, ﬁnancial and emotional burden. It’s a really personal project for me,” he said. At the steps of the former New Orleans Police Department headquarters in Mid-City, more than 100 cyclists readied themselves Friday morning to ride to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Their mission, to help families

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Continued from page 1B dumping ground for the state to send certain people here so that we have to deal with them,” City Council President JP Morrell said Wednesday. “We are stuck holding people that are not our obligations and that are keeping our jail above its number, which in turn is additional costs for the people of the city of New Orleans.” The state pays $29 per inmate per day, a fraction of the $160 cost to house them, according to Woodfork. The reduction of the Criminal District Court bench on Jan. 1 from 12 judges to nine, under legislation signed by Gov. Jeff Landry, has raised concerns about delays. Staffing shortages and low recruitment have also affected jail operations, the sheriff said. Woodfork said she and others on her executive team have been ﬁlling shifts at the jail. She told council member Matthew Willard that 40% of budgeted positions are open.

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Phase III opening in doubt

tional employees would cost $1.2 million and could be orWoodfork said the low dered by the court if the new staffing is affecting plans to wing can’t operate safely. launch a controversial and Woodfork said she now exlong-awaited medical and pects Phase III to open early mental health wing known next year. as “Phase III.” Scheduled to open next month, it’s a key Spared cuts component for the Sheriff’s The Sheriff’s Office was Office to comply with a long- one of the several agencies running jail reform agree- and city departments that ment overseen by a federal pleaded to minimize pending budget cuts last week before judge. Woodfork said more em- the council. District Attorney Jason ployees are vital to a plan to move out of a facility known Williams’ office is facing a as the Temporary Detention cut in city funding from $8.4 Center. Built in 2012, the million to $6.9 million, on top warehouse-style detention of state reductions. Williams center was slated to close in said it could result in “a near 2017 once the new jail was shutdown” of programs and built. In 2019, however, male divisions. “A sustained reduction in inmates with mental health jail population will not only needs moved in. Steve Nelson, Moreno’s help lower operating costs deputy chief administra- and reduce the pressure for tive officer for infrastruc- additional jail capacity, it ture, has proposed creating will support the city’s effort a new low-barrier homeless to achieve compliance with shelter there once it’s empty. its stated goals,” Williams “If we do not bring down said. “The choice is whether the jail population, it’s gon- we invest in moving cases na be very difficult for us to efficiently or paying for the close a temporary detention consequences of that delay.” Williams said slashes to center and move into Phase the District Attorney OfIII,” Woodfork said. Morrell said that the addi- fice’s homicide, special

victims, adult diversion, investigations and victim advocacy units would not be enough. “We still did not get close to the proposed reduction,” he said. While crime in New Orleans has fallen steeply since 2022, arrests have risen, largely thanks to technology and a dedicated Louisiana State Police troop, according to a recent report from the watchdog Metropolitan Crime Commission. The criminal court’s chief judge, Magistrate Judge Juana Marine Lombard, asked the council to restore funding to a court slated for a 33% cut. Lombard said the court has exhausted $3.5 million in available cash and streamlined salaries, positions and resources. Criminal District Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier said the lost funds would make it harder to meet constitutional demands, and jail overﬂow could increase. “That means more lawsuits, that means more overcrowding in the jails, which will then cost the city an extreme amount of money to house people in custody and

If a rider needs a break, they can take one. A U-Haul truck is loaded with camping gear for them to set up overnight Friday and Saturday. They’ll finish the ride at the Angola Craft Fair where incarcerated artists sell handmade woodwork, trinkets, paintings, and other items from booths. A Cornerstone bus will return them home. Cornerstone Director Leo Jackson organized the first bus ride in 2007, a year after the late former state Gov. Kathleen Blanco pardoned him from a decades-long stint at Angola on drug distribution charges. Jackson wanted to help the men he left behind, he said. “I thought about, what can I start that would benefit the men back in prison? And those family members on the outside and the bus trip came to mind,” Jackson said. Kendrick Howard, another formerly incarcerated resident, recalled how his son died while he was in prison. An easier transportation option could mean families get to see one another more. “What y’all doing is a blessing for us and the people that’s still in there. Please remember, there’s a lot of people that count on y’all,” he said.

uled to begin early next year. But Michel’s letter also highlighted S&WB’s uncertainty that it will be able to comply with the federal mandates, since the project is expected to top $1 billion and no other funding sources are lined up. “S&WB leadership explicitly stated that achieving full replacement within 10 years was ‘funding-dependent,’” Michel said.

Email Joni Hess at joni.hess@ theadvocate.com.

Email Ben Myers at bmyers@ theadvocate.com.

then also to transport people to other facilities,” she said. This year, the court faces a $4.2 million deﬁcit. Harris told court staff that the council won’t bridge the whole gap, as she pressed for ways to shrink the jail rolls. Lombard pointed to the loss of three judges and a new state law that requires holding some people on bonds for longer as stiff obstacles. “Without the programs

that the court has, I don’t see any way that we can ensure any continued reductions,” Lombard said. Violet Bucaro at violet. bucaro@theadvocate.com.

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Marie Adele Smith Hatrel (Adele Hatrel) of River Ridge, LA passed away on Friday, September 18, 2026. She was born on November 26, 1933, in New Orleans, LA to Dr. Jackson Melville Smith III (PaPa) and Marie Adele Smith (MiMi). Adele was born in New Orleans, LA and graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in 1951. She then attended Loyola University where she graduated with honors in three years with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education. Adele taught first grade for several years to help put her husband, Dr. Paul P. Hatrel, through dental school, before he began his career in the US Navy. The remainder of Adele's career was as a beloved wife, stay at home mom, "planner extraordinaire", and an incredible daughter of Christ. Adele dedicated her life to the service of others including her immediate family, extended family, friends and the community at large. Adele's life was one of selfsacrifice for the sake of others. She had a quiet (usually) sense of humor, incredible ability to organize and loved her family deeply. In her spare time, she loved to work outside in the yard and typically had an exceptional veg-

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etable garden and many beautiful flowers for all to enjoy. Adele was married for 64 years to her loving husband, Captain Paul P. Hatrel, DDS, and together they had four children. Adele is survived by her three sons Paul D. Hatrel (Deidre), David M. Hatrel (Eileen) and Bryon J. Hatrel (Bonnie); her grandchildren Nichole, Thomas "T.J.", Ryan, Tyler, Evan, Davis, Tiffany and Christopher; and her great grandchildren Kenyon, Kaleb, Kaymen, John and Noah; as well as her three beloved sisters Mary G. Chamel, Barbara Maumus, and Charlotte Babin. Adele was preceded in death by her husband, Paul, their oldest child, Adele Neupert (Dr. Edward); and her parents. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral mass for Adele on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at the Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church located at 130 Baronne Street, New Orleans, LA 70112. Visitation will begin at 9:00 am with the funeral mass starting at 10:00 am.

Interment will follow the funeral services in Lafayette Cemetery #1, New Orleans, LA. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in the name of Adele Hatrel may be made to St. Jane de Chantal Catholic Church in Abita Springs, LA. Donations may be either mailed to St. Jane de Chantal Parish at 72040 Maple Street, Abita Springs, LA 70420 or can be made at https://giving.pari shoft.com/app/giving/stja nenet.

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Even if you’ve had quality dental work in the past, you shouldn’t take your dental health for granted. In fact, your odds of having a dental problem only go up as you age.2

Early detection can prevent small problems from becoming expensive ones. The best way to prevent large dental bills is preventive care. The American Dental Association recommends checkups twice a year.

Treatment is expensive — especially the services people over 50 often need. Consider these national average costs of treatment ... $274 for a checkup ... $299 for a filling ... $1,471 for a crown.3 Unexpected bills like this can be a real burden, especially if you’re on a fixed income.

1 “Medicare & You,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2025. 2 “Aging changes in teeth and gums”, medlineplus.gov, 4/17/2022. 3 FairHealth, Inc. National average dental fees. Data current as of July 2025; subject to change.

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Treasury proposes rule on China investments

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department proposed a rule Thursday to crack down on American high-tech investments such as supercomputing and artificial intelligence in China, Russia, North Korea and other “countries of concern.” The U.S. government has been working for years to deny China and other adversaries investments that could help them boost their military power. That program began in 2023 when then-President Joe Biden signed an executive order putting restrictions on outbound U.S. investments in sectors such as semiconductors, quantum computing and artiﬁcial intelligence going into China. Treasury later established the Outbound Investment Security Program. In December 2025, Congress passed a law that codified and expanded the program to target more technologies and more foreign countries, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Russia. The inclusion of Russia in the proposed rule has come days after President Donald Trump waived sanctions on Russia following a diesel deal with President Vladimir Putin. The rule announced Thursday would expand the restrictions to cover investments in hypersonic systems capable of traveling at five times the speed of sound, supercomputing, biotechnology and artiﬁcial intelligence, though Treasury used Trump’s favored term for AI, “superintelligence.”

American Express profits rise; job cuts planned

NEW YORK — American Express profits rose sharply in the third quarter as it transitioned the vast majority of its members to a new, higher-fee Platinum Card while its well-to-do customers continued to spend aggressively. The company also announced its first major job cuts in roughly a decade, telling investors it plans to cut its workforce by 5%, or about 3,500 employees. The New York company reported a profit of $3.71 billion, up 28% from a year ago, or $5.42 a share. Excluding a onetime gain from AmEx’s sale of its stake in Global Business Travel Group, the company earned a quarterly per—share profit of $4.68. That figure beat Wall Street estimates. AmEx’s revenue and profits rose as customers both charged more on their cards and paid more to hold an AmEx card. Last year, AmEx updated its Platinum Card, adding several new perks for cardmembers while raising the annual fee from $695 to $895. Reviews of the update were generally positive at the time.

Citi gets nod from Beijing to set up company

WASHINGTON — Citi said on Friday it has received approval from Chinese regulators to set up a wholly owned securities company in the world’s second largest economy, just about one month after Chinese leader Xi Jinping met President Donald Trump in Washington to keep U.S.-China ties stable. The approval, which was also announced on the same day by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, followed a recent approval by Beijing for the U.S. payments giant Visa to prepare to set up a bank card clearing business in China. The moves by Beijing to open its ﬁnancial market to U.S. companies have come as the two leaders are expected to meet two more times by the year’s end to maintain the fragile ties battered by a tariff and trade war. In a statement, Citi, a major U.S. ﬁnancial services provider, said the onshore securities license will allow Citi — through the new entity — to offer equities brokerage, securities underwriting, securities research and principal trading services to domestic and foreign clients. Citi says it has a “sizable corporate and institutional client base looking to access the Chinese capital markets.”

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Rising oil prices pressure markets BY DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP business writers

Stocks on Wall Street closed broadly lower Friday as oil prices climbed to their highest level in more than four years, ratcheting up pressure on the market. Rising oil prices weighed heavily on the market, where nearly three out of every four stocks within the benchmark S&P 500 index fell. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil rose 3.1% to settle at $116.72. It has surged from less than $97 at the start of October and is now at

its highest level since June 2022. Several AI-related companies rallied, helping ease some of the impact from the broader market slide. Micron Technology rose 2.5%, Intel gained 1.7%, Microsoft added 0.7%, and Advanced Micro Devices closed 1.7% higher. The tech sector’s influence is also capable of quickly switching over to a heavy weight. Stocks that have benefited from the frenzy over AI have been swinging over rising worries about their path ahead. Investors are worried about whether their high prices are justified. Many of those companies

have been borrowing to fund investments in AI technology and high interest rates are making those loans more expensive. “Investors appear increasingly focused on the economics of AI, particularly the substantial upfront costs required to build AI infrastructure and the uncertainty around the timing of returns on those investments,” said Angelo Kourkafas, senior global strategist at Edward Jones, in a research note. The latest round of corporate earnings are being closely watched to help get a better sense of whether those investments are

paying off, or might pay off. Several inﬂuential AI-related companies report their latest ﬁnancial results next week, including Google’s parent, Alphabet, along with Microsoft and Amazon. Industrial companies had some of the biggest losses. Caterpillar fell 2.4%. JPMorgan Chase fell 1.5%, Citigroup dropped 1.5% and Capital One Financial slid 1%. While higher oil prices weighed down much of the market, they helped boost energy companies. Chevron rose 2.9% and ConocoPhillips gained 3.6%.

Facing pushback on data centers, tech giants are issuing new promises Host cities offered more money, fewer secrets BY MARC LEVY and KAITLYN HUAMANI

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With host communities across the U.S. turning against their gargantuan data centers, America’s technology giants are promising to take fewer taxpayer handouts, keep fewer secrets or shower more money onto the communities willing to allow the server warehouses. The new raft of promises from the world’s richest companies comes as anti-data center sentiment has become a potent issue in the midterm elections, with control of Congress and 36 governors’ offices on the line. Despite backing from President Donald Trump, the data centers powering the artificial intelligence boom have become politically toxic. Community opposition that blocks municipal permits has become a bottleneck, and tech giants could face even more challenges if voters next month elect more public officials who are skeptical of data centers. The tech industry says it has gotten the message. In addition to ramping up financial incentives, officials with Google and Meta said in interviews with The Associated Press they are trying to address mistrust by being more transparent with communities where they would like to build. Companies are also making pledges to reduce their impact on the environment and offering assurances that data centers will boost local property values — all while maintaining AI is a positive force for the American economy, despite its skeptics.

Tech giants pledge more transparency Devi Thomas, Google’s global head of community development and engagement, told AP that she wouldn’t call resistance to data centers a “backlash,” but that “there are often community questions to be addressed.” “Early public consultation is increasingly a very important part of the process. We have done as much as we can to make sure communities are involved early on,” Thomas said. Earlier this month, Amazon rolled out its “Amazon Data Center Commitment,” including pledges to improve the environmental rating of its backup diesel generators and disclose more about its data centers’ energy and water use. It also said — as have Microsoft and Google — that it had stopped requiring government ofﬁcials to sign nondisclosure agreements. The use of nondisclosure agreements has meant people in host communities may know little or nothing about a project until it shows up on a municipal board’s voting agenda. Besides that, tech companies often have hidden their involvement in a project behind a code name and developers who do the legwork with local governments, critics and other developers say. That practice “raises people’s suspicion

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Anti-data center demonstrators protest at the Pennsylvania Capitol on Oct. 6 in Harrisburg, Pa. as to what’s truly happening,” said Anita Verma-Lallian, a developer with data center projects in Arizona. Meta is always evaluating how well it shares information with communities, said Lindsay Elin, Meta’s vice president of public policy and external affairs. “As part of that work, we are reviewing our use of nondisclosure agreements,” she said in a statement to the AP. In a report this month that sharply criticized data center giants including Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, several Senate Democrats said companies have used nondisclosure agreements to freeze out the public. The report also said the companies aggressively seek state and local tax breaks and do not cover the entire cost of the electric-grid buildout needed for energy-hungry data centers.

Spending ramps up in host communities The dominant players in the industry — Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft — project they’ll spend more than $600 billion this year combined on capital projects, primarily data center construction in the U.S. Even as the companies prepare to spend more to entice communities — payments that some critics call “bribes” — Trump urged them in a social media post Wednesday to pay people and communities a “dividend” if they “want to make their Data Centers popular.” “MAKE DEALS, and get them built!!! GREAT FOR THE U.S.A.,” Trump wrote. Meta and Amazon said recently they will each spend $1 billion on ﬁnancial incentives to host communities in the coming years, on top of millions they already spend to support

schools, charities and job training. Google says its investments in local programs in data center communities will reach $1 billion by the end of 2027. Microsoft has pointed to a couple of local tax breaks that it will forego. And Google recently said for all of its new data center campuses, the company will pay full real property taxes on the buildings and land. The companies have known since last fall that community opposition was becoming a serious problem. Data center demand began driving up electric bills last year across a 13-state electricity grid stretching from Illinois to New Jersey and Maryland, angering ratepayers. The outcry led to promises from the tech giants to pay the cost of the power infrastructure to feed their data centers, while Microsoft rolled out its five-point “Community-First AI Infrastructure” plan. Data centers’ critics aren’t persuaded. Sam Burleigh, who helped start Concerned Citizens of Montour County in rural northern Pennsylvania to fight a potential Amazon-backed data center project, said the company’s commitments are “propaganda.” “What I see is them realizing they have more resistance than they ever dreamt of. And so now they have to find some way, some method to break through that resistance,” Burleigh said. Kathryn Hoffman, executive director of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, which has sued over two prospective Google data centers, said she sees Google doing more public relations outreach, but she doesn’t see it doing more to disclose critical details about its plans.

Airbnb releases new rules limiting checkout requests BY RIO YAMAT

AP airlines and travel writer Airbnb guests can say goodbye to checkout chores like washing dishes, stripping beds and taking out the trash under a new policy announced this week. The short-term rental platform’s new rules limit hosts to “reasonable” checkout requests beginning on Nov. 20. Guests can still be asked to leave dishes in the sink, gather used towels and sort trash and recycling, but hosts generally cannot require chores typically

handled by professional cleaners. “Remember to think like a guest and keep in mind what you’d ﬁnd unreasonable,” Airbnb tells hosts in a video announcing the new policy. Checkout chores have been a recurring point of contention for Airbnb guests, particularly when they’re also paying cleaning fees. The company has previously acknowledged that those fees can create different expectations between hosts and travelers. Airbnb said exceptions may apply in certain circumstances, such as requiring guests to put trash in

animal-proof containers in areas with bears. Hosts must now also disclose all house rules and requests in a designated section of their listing before guests book, according to Airbnb. They can no longer add extra requirements through messages, signs inside the property or other sections of a listing. As part of the changes, Airbnb said it is standardizing house rules into seven categories, covering topics including overnight guests, quiet hours, pets, smoking and whether guests must lock up at checkout.

The changes build on Airbnb’s broader efforts to make booking a rental more predictable for travelers. In 2023, CEO Brian Chesky acknowledged that the variety of properties on Airbnb creates uncertainty among guests. “A lot of guests have described booking Airbnb, once they check in, it’s a moment of truth. Is the house exactly what they expected?” he told The Associated Press. “We don’t want this to be a moment of truth. We want you to know exactly what you’re going to get before you book.”

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For La. governors, two terms and you’re out? In this election, Louisiana voters will decide whether to change the state’s constitutional term limits for governors. It’s an important decision. Currently, Louisiana governors can serve two consecutive terms, then run again after sitting out a term. This is called a “consecutive term limit.” Proposed constitutional Amendment No. 4 would replace it with a “lifetime term limit.” The ballot language reads: “Do you support an amendment to prohibit a person who has served more than one and one-half terms as governor from being elected as governor for any future term?” In other words, once a governor serves two full terms — or one full term plus more than half of a predecessor’s unexpired term — that person could never be elected governor again. Amendment No. 4 would apply to former governors still alive, future governors and the incumbent. Since 1951, the U.S. Constitution has imposed a similar lifetime two-term limit on presidents. Ron States take different approaches to guFaucheux bernatorial term limits. Nine have lifetime limits, while 13 have none. Others, including Louisiana, restrict consecutive terms or impose limits over specified periods. Virginia has a one-term limit, but allows governors to return after sitting out four years. The immediate effect of Amendment No. 4 would be to prevent two former Louisiana governors — Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican Bobby Jindal — from seeking a third term. It would also impose the two-term lifetime limit on incumbent Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. Because Edwards remains fairly popular, he could be a viable gubernatorial contender in a future election. That political calculation may help explain why most Democrats in the Legislature opposed the amendment and most Republicans supported it. Supporters say the goal of the amendment is to bring new blood into state government. They dispute the suggestion that it targets Edwards or anybody else. But this is an important point. Citizens should beware of any changes to the election system that are motivated by temporary partisan politics. Louisiana recently junked its open primary in federal and other elections for a temporary partisan reason — defeating U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy for reelection. The move worked, Cassidy lost and now the state is stuck with a closed primary system that advantages partisan rigidity and extremism. Throughout Louisiana’s 214 years of statehood, it’s had one- or two-term consecutive term limits, and brief periods without any limits. But it has never imposed a lifetime prohibition, as Amendment No. 4 would do. Over the years, a number of Louisiana governors have attempted comebacks after leaving office. The legendary Earl K. Long — what other governor has been portrayed by Paul Newman in a movie? –– served three separate stints without ever winning consecutive elections. He completed an unexpired term in 1939-40, won a full term in 1948 and returned for another four-year term in 1956. Sam Jones, governor from 1940 to 1944, attempted a comeback in 1948 but lost. James Noe, who served less than a year as governor in 1936, tried to win a full term in 1940, but fell short. Twenty years later, Noe ran and lost again. Robert Kennon, governor from 1952 to 1956, failed in his 1963-64 return bid. Jimmie Davis, now better known for writing and singing “You Are My Sunshine” than for his governorship, served a single term from 1944 to 1948 and another from 1960 to 1964, with a 12-year break in between. Davis attempted yet another comeback in 1971, but was defeated. California’s Gov. Jerry Brown took the comeback impulse even further. After serving two terms from 1975 to 1983, he sat out an astonishing 28 years before returning for two more terms, from 2011 to 2019. This made Brown both California’s youngest governor at the time, and later, its oldest. In 1966, Louisiana voters scrapped the 68-year-old oneterm limit, approving a constitutional amendment allowing governors to serve two consecutive terms. Popular incumbent Gov. John McKeithen helped its chances. He won his second term with 81% of the primary vote and faced no general election opposition. Then there’s Edwin Edwards. Elected in 1971 and reelected in 1975, Edwards couldn’t run for a third consecutive term in 1979. So, he sat out four years, returned in 1983 and defeated incumbent Dave Treen. Edwards sought reelection in 1987 but withdrew after finishing second in the primary to Buddy Roemer. He came back again in 1991 and defeated David Duke. Edwards was elected governor four times, serving 16 years — more than anyone else in Louisiana history. Under a lifetime two-term limit, he couldn’t have run in 1983, 1987 or 1991. Amendment No. 4 comes down to this: Should voters be allowed to bring back a former two-term governor after a break from office? Or should the constitution permanently take that choice off the table? That’s the question Louisiana voters must answer. Ron Faucheux is a nonpartisan political analyst, pollster and writer based in Louisiana.

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Closed primaries serve the politicians, not the people In a recent column published in the newspaper titled “Closed primaries are a curse on our democracy,” the syndicated columnist Froma Harrop stated that she hadn’t left her political party; her party left her — both of them! In like fashion, a lot of American voters are frustrated by the fact that Democratic or Republican candidates in our country’s elections are often chosen in low-turnout primaries where organized ideologies or special interest groups select their nominee. In her column, Harrop said that currently 47% of all American voters are not afﬁliated with a party. Harrop also cites the comments by Jeremy Gruber, the senior vice president for Open Primaries, a non-

partisan group which advocates for allowing all voters to participate in primary elections. Gruber states that “to do otherwise makes general elections meaningless, especially in a oneparty state.” In summary, closed primaries are bad for our democracy because, as the data and the history of our nation clearly show, we are all ﬁrst and foremost Americans. Note: In a related, recent article titled “U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy sponsors open-primary bill,” Cassidy said he ﬁrmly believed that “the political system should serve the people. And it shouldn’t be designed so that people serve the politician.”

WILLIAM NUNEZ Covington

Shared religious tradition forbids dehumanizing other humans Jews and Christians of all denominations clearly know that our present U.S. immigration policies contravene our shared moral values and basic human decency. This knowledge must lead us to action. Our shared religious traditions demand that our love for God is demonstrated by love of our neighbor (Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Leviticus 19:1718, Matthew 22:34-40, 1 John 4:20-21, among other Scriptures). This means respectful, compassionate and humane treatment of our sisters and brothers, irrespective of gender, creed, color, ethnicity or nationality. Some, like the rich young man in the Gospel of Matthew, may choose to turn their backs on Jesus’ call to heroic generosity and welcome to the other. Matthew teaches that abusing the other is abusing God: “I was hungry and you gave me no food,

I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, and in prison and you did not visit me” (Matthew 25:35-36). Our moral values, not our political loyalties, must inform how we vote and hold our elected ofﬁcials to accountability. We cannot with credibility support candidates of any political party who will enact laws and formulate policies that dehumanize other human beings, each of whom we believe, in our Judeo-Christian tradition, is made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1). Pope Leo’s recent encyclical teaches of the “humanizing power of the Gospel.” Who among us, with God’s grace, has the courage to work to make this happen?

SISTER MAURA O’DONOVAN, New Orleans

Pink the color of unsportsmanlike conduct On Oct. 17, the newspaper reported that LSU head football coach Lane Kifﬁn has the entire visiting teams’ locker room painted pink in an effort to score a psychological advantage. So much for fair play and sportsmanship.

What’s next? Constant loud noise? Overﬂowing toilets? A surreptitious ﬂea infestation? It’s getting harder to support this coach.

WENDELL LINDSAY Baton Rouge

Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has acted contrary to American interests, especially regarding foreign affairs. Presently, despite our obligations as expressed in the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, Trump has delayed the shipment of $14 billion in arms sales to Taiwan. Chinese President Xi Jinping, meanwhile, is energetically bolstering China’s military forces so that they can successfully attack Taiwan. The United States and Taiwan have for years maintained a close relationship. Moreover, Taiwan produces between 6070% of global computer chip output and 90% of the most advanced chips. Thus, it would be very bad, if not catastrophic, if Taiwan were taken over by the Chinese or if Taiwan destroyed its chip production capacity if it feared defeat by the Chinese. Trump has also acted completely contrary to U.S. interests in his decision to buy from Russia 800,000 tons of diesel oil supplies in October and November and millions of tons more thereafter. (See the Associated Press report of Oct. 9). This decision undermines the law passed by Congress in September and signed by Trump, which was aimed at limiting Russia’s ability to derive revenue from the sale of energy supplies. Trump’s deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin hurts Ukraine and helps Putin. It gives him money for rockets to ﬁre at Ukraine. It also gives relief to a beleaguered Russian economy, without doing much to bring down diesel prices in the United States or elsewhere. Because of these decisions and others that are greatly detrimental to U.S. interests, Trump is a clear and present danger to U.S. security. He deserves to be impeached and removed from ofﬁce.

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BROTHERLY SHOVE LSU QB Leavitt is improving thanks to mindset his older sibling helped push upon him

allin Leavitt never let his little brother win. A lack of mercy equipped Dallin as a bulldozing BYU and Utah State safety who scratched out a half-dozen seasons in the NFL. Sam Leavitt, who was 10 years Dallin’s younger, had to develop a cleverness and competitiveness to achieve what his brother wouldn’t allow. Case in point: Twelve-year-old Sam’s propensity for shooting, and swishing, jumpers from just inside the midcourt line when they matched up 1-on-1 on the hardwood. “I had to, I wouldn’t say cheat,” Dallin said, “but, back in the day, I would say, ‘I’m not gonna just back you down and big-body you.’ We got to a game, I think he was up, like, 7-2, and I’m like, ‘Bro, forget all these rules.’ ” There have been times in Sam’s athletic career where he absorbed punishment to pursue victory, including what his older brother forced upon him to squeak out a basketball win. When he quarterbacked Arizona State in 2024, Leavitt fractured ribs and punctured a lung in a Week 4 game against Utah. The next year, a lisfranc bone gave out in Week 4 against Baylor. This year, the LSU signal-caller pulled a hamstring Week 4 versus Texas A&M. He led the Sun Devils to a Big 12 title and the College Football Playoff after the punctured lung. He transferred after the broken foot, but Leavitt is ﬁguring out how to play true “point guard” of the LSU offense after he was literally hamstrung as a scrambler. ä See LSU, page 2C

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BROADCAST INFORMATION LSU at Auburn 11 a.m. Saturday, Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn, Ala. TV: ABC | Line: LSU by 7½ Radio: WDGL-FM, 98.1; WWL-AM, 870; WWL-FM, 105.3; KLWB-FM, 103.7

TEAM SCHEDULES Auburn

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) W, 31-0 11 a.m./ABC 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 11.28

Opponent Time/TV Baylor W, 17-16 Southern Miss W, 43-8 Florida L, 44-39 Vanderbilt W, 21-15 at Tennessee L, 24-14 at Georgia W, 27-24 LSU 11 a.m./ABC at Ole Miss 11:45 a.m./SECN Arkansas TBD at Mississippi State TBD Samford 2:30 p.m./SECN+ at Alabama TBD

DEPTH CHARTS Auburn

OFFENSE

6 WINSTON WATKINS 83 Corey Barber

WIDE RECEIVER

3 EUGENE WILSON 2 Tre 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

7 TRE’DEZ GREEN 44 Zach Grace -or- 14 Roman Mothershed

QUARTERBACK

10 SAM LEAVITT 11 Landen Clark

RUNNING BACK

13 DILIN JONES 22 Harlem Berry -or- 23 Stacy Gage

OFFENSE

5-10 5-11

182 183

So. Fr.

5-11 6-2

190 191

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.

6-7 6-2 6-5

242 236 212

Jr. Jr. Jr.

6-2 6-0

216 195

Jr. So.

5-11 5-10 5-10

211 193 204

So. Sr. So.

WIDE RECEIVER 11 KESHAUN SINGLETON 15 Brian Williams 5 CHAS NIMROD 8 Christian Neptune

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.

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

6-0 6-3

227 228

Jr. Fr.

6-2 6-1

225 227

Sr. So.

LINEBACKER 6 TJ DOTTERY 24 Tylen Singleton

STAR 2 TY BENEFIELD 31 CJ Jimcoily

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.

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

4 JEREMIAH KOGER 9 DeShawn Spencer

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

5-9

175

Sr. Fr.

6-2 5-11

200 190

Sr. So.

6-3 5-11

213 175

So. Fr.

6-5 6-5

330 310

Sr. Sr.

6-6 6-5

315 310

Fr. Sr.

6-4 6-2

322 315

Sr. So.

6-2 6-5

315 322

So. Sr.

6-7 6-6

313 315

Sr. Fr.

6-6 6-3

245 250

Sr. Sr.

6-3 6-2

235 217

Sr. So.

5-11 5-9

205 215

Sr. So.

6-6 6-5

260 265

So. Sr.

6-2 6-0 6-2

308 330 290

Sr. So. So.

6-3 6-5

345 320

Sr. So.

6-3 6-2

256 263

Sr. So.

6-0 5-11

240 241

So. Jr.

6-1 6-3

225 235

So. Jr.

6-0 5-11

195 195

Sr. Sr.

5-11 6-2

200 190

Sr. So.

6-1 5-11

185 195

Sr. Sr.

6-0 5-10

215 202

So. Jr.

6-1 6-0

204 200

Jr. So.

LEFT TACKLE 79 JO SIMMONS 69 Jacob Strand

LEFT GUARD 77 WILSON ZIERER 69 Jacob Strand

CENTER 72 COLE BEST 55 Kenneth McManus

RIGHT GUARD 55 KENNETH MCMANUS 56 Cole Skinner

RIGHT TACKLE 65 STANTON RAMIL 77 Wilson Zierer

TIGHT END 19 JAKE JOHNSON 82 Arlis Boardingham

QUARTERBACK 17 BYRUM BROWN 10 Tristan Ti’a

RUNNING BACK

DEFENSE DEFENSIVE END 44 JARED SMITH 15 Da’Shawn Womack

DEFENSIVE TACKLE 94 CODY SIGLER 95 Jourdin Crawford 10 Walter Mathis

DEFENSIVE TACKLE 35 DALLAS WALKER 96 Malik Autry

DEFENSIVE END 13 CHRIS MURRAY 11 Darrion Smith

LINEBACKER 9 ELIJAH MELENDEZ 45 Antonio Melendez

LINEBACKER 16 BRYCE DEAS 51 Michael Matthews-Canty

NICKEL 0 SYLVESTER SMITH-REED 1 Champ Anthony

CORNERBACK 4 RAYSHAWN PLEASANT 21 Gavin Jenkins

CORNERBACK 22 ANDRE JORDAN 1 Champ Anthony

SAFETY 5 ERIC WINTERS 23 Fred Gaskin

SAFETY 8 KALEB HARRIS 3 AnQuon Fegans

SPECIAL TEAMS KICKER

220 210

WIDE RECEIVER

23 JEREMIAH COBB 29 Omar Mabson

DEFENSE

6-3 6-4

WIDE RECEIVER

DEFENSIVE END 1 PRINCEWILL UMANMIELEN 55 Lamar Brown

SPECIAL TEAMS

So.

KICKER

6-5 6-1

208 211

Jr. Fr.

6-3 6-1

213 224

So. Fr.

5-10

193

Sr.

KICK RETURNER

5-11 5-11

190 175

Jr. Sr.

PUNT RETURNER

38 ALEX MCPHERSON

5-9

165

Sr.

6-1

222

Sr.

6-3

225

Sr.

5-11

200

Sr.

5-10

165

Jr.

PUNTER 14 HUDSON KAAK

LONG SNAPPER 59 HUDSON POWELL 4 RAYSHAWN PLEASANT 6 BRYCE CAIN

COACHES Lane Kiffin was 2-2 against Auburn while at Ole Miss, but they didn’t play the past two seasons.

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Arizona State quarterback Sam Leavitt celebrates with his brother Dallin, right, after the team’s Big 12 championship win over Iowa State on Dec. 7, 2024, in Arlington, Texas.

Alex Golesh is 4-2 in his first season at Auburn after a 23-15 coaching stint at South Florida.

He’s clever. He’s competitive. He’s the annoyingly successful little brother who found ways to adapt and win, even if there were some tumbles along the way. Leavitt, who threw eight interceptions in his ﬁrst six games at LSU, just notched his ﬁrst turnover-free game against Mississippi State, dissecting the Bulldogs with quick throws on his way to 31-of-38 passing, 289 yards and four touchdowns. He’s now the SEC passing yardage leader through seven games with 1,785. “Every single week we’ve just gotten better,” Leavitt said. “We keep playing cleaner ball, understanding just how this offense works.” The aspirations of a two-loss LSU squad, needing a rally to make the CFP, rest upon the shoulders of a little brother who lost a lot while growing up.

Finding his edge Dallin isn’t sure he has lost to his little brother in 1-on-1 more than a couple of times, but they stopped playing once Dallin was a pro and Sam was a budding recruit. They were both so intense, if they went against each other, they’d risk a full-blown ﬁght. When 22-year-old Dallin refused to play again after his rally from 7-2 down because he was exhausted, 12-year-old Sam egged him on: “You’re soft. Play again.” “I would beat him by 40 (in Madden) and he’d cry and he’d throw the controller and storm off and I’d be like, ‘Oh, you’re going to quit? OK, I’m going to turn off the game,’ ” Dallin said. “He’d be like, ‘No, I’m running it back.’ “It’s just his nature. He loves to play, and he wants to compete.” This was inevitable because of the family Leavitt was born into. His dad, Jared, was a linebacker at BYU. His mother, Tania, was a trainer at gyms who had her kids running through agility ladders and over hurdles. Because he was many years younger than his siblings, Sam started at an earlier age. “He would hang out with them,” Tania said, “and think he could compete with them.” Competing wasn’t always fun, because Tania was unbeatable in Boggle. There was a game called “Cover Your Assets” that drove Sam into a tizzy if family members started stealing his cards. If he lost in Bananagrams, Sam would scramble the tiles, throw them off the table and storm upstairs. He was smart, though, and very determined. He decided he’d be an NFL quarterback and placed a whiteboard in his bedroom, asking “How great do you want to be?” He’d set an alarm for 7 p.m. each night and perform his shoulder-mobility exercises. Sam also followed Dallin to train at Ryan

Paul’s gym in Washington, more than an hour from their home in Oregon. “Dallin was more just, I’m brute, I’m gonna run through you,” Paul said. “Sam, because of how fluid he is, how efficient he is as a mover, I can run through you, but why would I do that? I’d rather make you look like a fool by running around you and juking you.” He since has collected a long list of advantageseeking measures, which were displayed during an ESPN broadcast this season. Sam sleeps 9½-10 hours a day. He throws on blue-light glasses one hour before bed. He eats organic food and uses an EQ Flux, a bioelectric therapy device, for a “full body flush.” “I always preach about the parasympathetic state,” Leavitt told attendees at the LSU women’s clinic this summer. “You can’t recover if you’re in ‘fight or flight.’ So all my machines are doing that. And then you kind of have to learn how these different machines work, the way that energy works — alpha, beta, delta, all those different things.” He’s part quarterback, part mad scientist while trying to crack a competitive code. As a kid, Sam would ask his defensive-minded brother questions, wanting to understand his opponents’ weak points. Dallin wouldn’t say his brother’s natural gift was X’s and O’s as much as his innate ability to recognize open space. If the two brothers played 1-on-1 in basketball, Dallin was winning every time because of his physical advantages. If they split off in a 5-on-5 pickup game, it didn’t matter if Sam had the worst teammates and Dallin had the best. Sam, the sharpshooter who could thread passes through undefended space, won every time. “Like, his awareness is insane,” Dallin said. Big brother, while a practice squad player for the Raiders, once asked franchise quarterback Derek Carr to swing by a park to watch his little brother throw a football around. Carr spent an hour with 14-year-old Sam, who asked mature questions about how to attack one coverage or another. “He had a really good understanding of what Derek was saying, and he could really have a conversation about it,” Dallin said. “Obviously he was impressed with his arm, but that’s not always the most important thing. It’s really like the cerebral side of playing quarterback that Derek, No. 1, really values.”

In the danger zone Sam spans the competitive spectrum. He can be risky, but he’s even had Dallin concerned at times. He was in Arizona State’s locker room at halftime after Sam punctured his lung versus Utah. “He was cramping, and we thought that it was just a spasm, like where he got hit in the ribs or whatever,” Dallin said. In reality, his body wasn’t getting enough oxygen. He returned for the second half and would “thug it,” Dallin said, to win the game.

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LSU 28, AUBURN 20 This is an Auburn squad that can move the ball thanks to quarterback Byrum Brown, who has averaged around 150 yards passing in his last three games but has eclipsed 100 yards rushing in two straight. Auburn ranks near the bottom of the FBS in red-zone success both offensively and defensively. If Sam Leavitt and the offense continue to progress, this is a very winnable game. LSU 28, AUBURN 22 LSU should win as long as it doesn’t turn the ball over as many times as it did against Kentucky — or as many times as Georgia did against Auburn last week. Weird things tend to happen in this series, but you’d think the visiting Tigers have enough disruptive pass rushers and offensive weapons to get a win over this plucky Auburn team. It just won’t come easily.

LSU 27, AUBURN 19 LSU needs to snap the program’s eight-game SEC road losing streak to keep its CFP hopes alive going into November. Auburn’s win at No. 1 Georgia was one of the season’s biggest shockers, but will those Tigers face a letdown like so many SEC teams this season after emotional wins? Auburn is confident and Jordan-Hare is hostile, but it comes down to win the turnover battle, win the game.

LSU 28, AUBURN 14 It looks like Trey’Dez Green will be back this week, which means the LSU passing attack gets a big boost after improving a bunch since he’s been out of the lineup. As long as LSU can contain Byrum Brown, it’s hard not to like its chances. LSU is bound to win on the road at some point, and it’s a letdown spot for Auburn after last week’s massive win over Georgia.

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Everybody saw the Leavitt brothers celThe progression ebrating with physicality after a Big 12 title was won months later, red in the face as they It was going to take Leavitt time to learn the pushed, shoved and slapped each other’s LSU system — there are countless adjustments hands. There was an appreciation for what and route combinations to counter a defense — had been on the line. but he’s completed 77% of his passes in his last “You puncture a lung, you can die, right?” four games after hitting 61% in his first three. Dallin said, referencing that Utah game. “I According to Pro Football Focus, Leavitt don’t think people really give him the credit was releasing his throws in an average of 3.06 for how tough he is physically, and then also seconds in those first three games; his time to mentally, to say like, I’m in that place.” target is 2.55 seconds in the four games since, “So it was just a long season that led up to which is a stark difference in processing time. that point, where for me, it was just like ‘Holy Leavitt also is connecting with his receivers crap, bro, I can’t believe you did what you on and off the field. Jackson Harris will come just did this year’ coming off of a team that over to Leavitt’s house to use his recovery was 3-9.” equipment, which Harris barely understands. Knowing just how much Sam has sacrificed, “I just trust him and I want to get better, and he Dallin was frustrated when Arizona State does everything he can to get better,” Harris said. fans questioned his brother’s toughness and “I can’t go into the details. I really don’t know, to commitment after he was shut be honest. But it’s good stuff.” down in favor of foot surgery That’s what LSU wants to see. and transferred to LSU. Sam Leavitt has gotten better, week hadn’t been healthy all season. by week. His foot was injured in Week Dallin has watched his little 4 versus Baylor, but he played brother grow over 21 years in three more games. Dallin from a kid who couldn’t stand begged Sam to sideline himself losing at Bananagrams to playduring a loss to Houston that uling the second half of a football game with an injured lung. timately was his last game with Sam still has his whiteboard. the Sun Devils. It’s transformed from merely “He’s like, ‘No, we gotta win listing big-picture goals about this game. What are you talk“How great do you want to be?” ing about? Get out of my face,’ to also including process-driven ” Dallin recalled. “Like, he was reminders on how much film mad at me for asking him to not he needs to watch or how many go back in.” hours to train in LSU’s virtual LSU coach Lane Kiffin knew reality system. there was no way Leavitt was He hasn’t erased the big-piccoming out of Texas A&M conture goals completely. test this year, merely because he “Go win a national championpulled a hamstring and couldn’t DALLIN LEAVITT, scramble. ship, go win the Heisman,” Dallin LSU quarterback It was maybe the best thing said. “If you’re a great player in Sam Leavitt’s brother that could happen, in Kiffin’s college football, those are your view, because Leavitt couldn’t goals, right? But I think on ‘How freelance with his legs. The indo you get there’ is really what’s changed. He’s really looking at jury forced his quarterback to the intricacies of how to be the best player.” stay in the pocket, get the ball out quickly and It’s process over outcome. It’s still taking fulfill his mission. shots when they come open — like the 12-yearBoth the competitive and cerebral sides old who would pull up from just past the midof Leavitt brought him to LSU. There was “synergy,” Dallin said, between the families court line — but closer to the basket, per se, hitof Leavitt and former Ole Miss quarterback ting running back Dilin Jones on a swing pass Jaxson Dart, who endorsed Kiffin, offensive or Harris cutting across the middle. coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. and quarterbacks “I felt like I played a pretty easy game, just coach Dane Stevens. getting the ball out to my guys and having them They have proven themselves expert at go make plays,” Leavitt said after a 31-0 win scheming space for quarterbacks to exploit. over Mississippi State. “I’m continuing to deGoing into the season, Dallin heard positive revelop and learn from coach Weis, Dane and Kiffin … what’s four-down territory, when do you views from his brother, who isn’t so little anygotta take shots versus control the tempo, push more at 6-foot-2, 207 pounds. He stands taller the pace, all those things. than Dallin, who is 5-10, 195. “It’s just a constant progression. They do “Sam feels like they’ve done a great job of a great job getting me ready every single hearing him and implementing pieces that he week.” likes and he feels comfortable with,” Dallin said.

Sam feels like they’ve done a great job of hearing him and implementing pieces that he likes and he feels comfortable with.”

OFFENSIVE LEADERS LSU

Auburn

PASSING

Player

Cmp-Att-Pct Yards TD Int

Sam Leavitt

148-211-70.1

1785

RUSHING

Player

Att

Dilin Jones Sam Leavitt Harlem Berry Stacy Gage Landen Clark Husan Longstreet

Net

128 64 31 21 23 5

Avg TD

566 270 203 166 89 35

4.4 4.2 6.5 7.9 3.9 7.0

5 7 1 2 4 0

RECEIVING Player

Rec Yards Avg TD

PASSING

Player

Cmp-Att-Pct Yards TD Int

Byrum Brown

119-185-64.3

RUSHING

Player

Byrum Brown Jeremiah Cobb Omar Mabson II Bryson Washington Bryce Cain Tae Meadows

Att

Net

Avg TD

107 58 37 18 2 3

459 306 227 71 32 18

4.3 5.3 6.1 3.9 16.0 6.0

5 2 1 0 0 0

RECEIVING Player

Rec Yards Avg TD

Keshaun Singleton Chas Nimrod Jeremiah Koger Jake Johnson Arlis Boardingham DeShawn Spencer Jeremiah Cobb

32 31 12 9 5 6 9

XPM XPA FGM FGA

Player

27 33 23 14 26 11 8 5 3

456 447 247 222 190 122 89 77 70

16.9 13.5 10.7 15.9 7.3 11.1 11.1 15.4 23.3

367 333 200 67 57 49 47

11.5 10.7 16.7 7.4 11.4 8.2 5.2

2 3 0 0 1 2 0

KICKING

KICKING Scott Starzyk

5 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 1

Jackson Harris Winston Watkins Eugene Wilson Trey’Dez Green Dilin Jones Corey Barber Jayce Brown Roman Mothershed Phillip Wright

Player

1205

XPM XPA FGM FGA

Alex McPherson

DEFENSIVE LEADERS TACKLES

Player

TJ Dottery Davhon Keys Ty Beneﬁeld Princewill Umanmielen PJ Woodland Whit Weeks Jhase Thomas DJ Pickett Tamarcus Cooley Deuce Geralds Jordan Ross Stephiylan Green Malik Blocton Dylan Carpenter Dominick McKinley Zach Weeks

Tot Solo Ast Loss Sk 54 34 30 27 23 23 22 22 21 21 20 14 12 11 10 10

24 18 12 15 12 10 13 19 14 10 9 5 6 6 4 2

30 16 18 12 11 13 9 3 7 11 11 9 6 5 6 8

2 2.5 1 11 0 2.5 1 0 1 5 7 3.5 2 2 3 0

0 0.5 1 8 0 0 0 0 1 5 3 1.5 1.5 1.5 2 0

INTERCEPTIONS

Player

Tamarcus Cooley DJ Pickett Jordan Ross

Tot Yards Avg TD BU 2 1 1

21 32 30

10.5 32.0 30.0

0 0 1

2 4 1

TACKLES

Player

Tot Solo Ast Loss Sk

Elijah Mendez 52 Xavier Atkins 37 Eric Winters 35 Kaleb Harris 32 Bryce Deas 23 Cody Sigler 20 Dallas Walker 18 Rayshawn Pleasant 17 Jourdin Crawford 16 Sylvester Smith-Reed 15 Champ Anthony 13 Andre Jordan Jr. 13 Jared Smith 12 Darrion Smith 11 Chris Murray 11 Da’Shawn Womack 11

Player

35 26 28 22 16 17 9 13 12 13 8 11 7 6 8 9

17 11 7 10 7 3 9 4 4 2 5 2 5 5 3 2

9 7.5 2 0 0 4 1 1 0.5 0 0 0 2 1.5 1 4

4 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.5 0 0 0 1.5 0.5 0 2

INTERCEPTIONS

Andre Jordan Elijah Mendez Da’Shawn Womack

Tot Yards Avg TD BU 2 1 1

29 13 8

14.5 13.0 8.0

1 0 0

TEAM STATS OFFENSE PER GAME Yards gained: 504.0

OFFENSE PER GAME Yards gained: 394.2

Plays: 79.2

Plays: 70.7

PASS 308.0

RUSH 196.0

PASS 36.1

RUSH 43.1

Turnovers: 1.57

PASS 212.2

RUSH 182.0

PASS 32.0

RUSH 38.7

Turnovers: 1.46

INTERCEPTIONS 1.14

FUMBLES 0.43

INTERCEPTIONS 1.17

FUMBLES 0.29

DEFENSE PER GAME Yards allowed: 256.4

DEFENSE PER GAME Yards allowed: 371.0

PASS 168.3

PASS 228.0

RUSH 88.1

Turnovers forced: 1.29 FUMBLES 0.29

INTERCEPTIONS 1.33

SCORING PER GAME SCORED ALLOWED

RUSH 143.0

Turnovers forced: 1.83

INTERCEPTIONS 1.00

FUMBLES 0.50

SCORING PER GAME

SCORED ALLOWED

40.4 22.8

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Fourth down

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45.6%

53.3%

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Fail

36.4%

54.4%

83.3%

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LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt directs his receivers while looking to make a pass against Mississippi State in the first quarter on Saturday at Tiger Stadium.

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SOUTH

Saturday’s games

Wednesday’s games SOUTHWEST

LSU (5-2) at Auburn (4-2), 11 a.m. Southern (3-4) at Texas Southern (1-5), 2 p.m. Nicholls (2-5) at Northwestern St. (0-7), 2 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe (0-6) at Troy (3-3), 3 p.m. Old Dominion (2-5) at Louisiana Tech (4-2), 4 p.m. UL (5-2) at Southern Miss (1-5), 4 p.m. Southeastern (4-3) at Stephen F. Austin (7-0), 5 p.m. UTSA (6-1) at Tulane (3-3), 7 p.m.

Top 25 Saturday’s games

No. 1 Miami (6-0) vs. Pittsburgh (5-2), 11 a.m. No. 2 BYU (6-0) at UCF (3-3), 2:30 p.m. No. 6 Indiana (6-1) at Michigan (4-2), 11 a.m. No. 7 Ole Miss (5-1) at No. 19 Texas (4-2), 6:30 p.m. No. 8 Texas Tech (6-0) at Cincinnati (4-2), 11 a.m. No. 9 UCLA (6-0) vs. Michigan St. (2-5), 2:30 p.m. No. 10 Utah (6-0) vs. No. 14 Houston (6-1), 9:15 p.m. No. 11 Tennessee (6-1) at South Carolina (3-3), 2:30 p.m. No. 12 Kentucky (6-1) vs. Vanderbilt (3-4), 6:30 p.m. No. 13 Alabama (5-2) vs. Texas A&M (4-3), 2:30 p.m. No. 15 Iowa (5-1) at Minnesota (4-2), 2:30 p.m. No. 16 Southern Cal (6-1) at Wisconsin (4-2), 6:30 p.m. No. 18 LSU (5-2) at Auburn (4-2), 11 a.m. No. 21 Boise St. (5-1) at Washington St. (1-6), 5 p.m. No. 23 SMU (5-1) vs. California (3-4), 11 a.m. No. 24 Northwestern (5-1) vs. Rutgers (2-4), 11 a.m. No. 25 Arizona (5-1) vs. Iowa St. (3-3), 6:30 p.m.

Nation Tuesday’s games EAST

Delaware 61, Missouri St. 38 Marshall 20, South Alabama 13

Middle Tennessee 26, FIU 23

New Mexico St. 30, Sam Houston St. 24

Thursday’s games SOUTH

Liberty 34, Kennesaw St. 6 Appalachian St. 34, James Madison 31 Memphis 41, East Carolina 34

Friday’s games EAST

NC Central 31, Delaware St. 12 Penn 24, Yale 21 UConn 35, UMass 16

SOUTH

Duke 19, Virginia 16

SOUTHWEST

Army (4-2) at Tulsa (4-3), n

FAR WEST

Air Force (5-1) at Wyoming (4-3), n NC State (3-3) at Stanford (3-4), n

Saturday’s games EAST

New Hampshire (2-6) at Merrimack (2-5), 11 a.m. Stonehill (2-5) at LIU Brooklyn (3-5), 11 a.m. New Haven (2-5) at CCSU (3-3), 11 a.m. St. Thomas (Minn.) (5-2) at Marist (4-3), 11 a.m. Albany (NY) (4-3) at Rhode Island (4-3), 11 a.m. Wagner (1-6) at Duquesne (2-4), 11 a.m. Cornell (3-2) at Brown (2-3), 11 a.m. Bucknell (1-6) at Holy Cross (2-5), noon Campbell (6-1) at Maine (1-6), noon Lafayette (2-4) at Fordham (2-6), noon Dartmouth (2-3) at Columbia (4-1), 12:30 p.m. Mercyhurst (1-6) at Robert Morris (3-4), 1 p.m.

Stony Brook (4-3) at Bryant (5-2), 1 p.m. Princeton (4-1) at Harvard (5-0), 2 p.m. Howard (3-4) at Morgan St. (5-2), 2 p.m. North Texas (4-2) at Navy (2-4), 2:30 p.m. Bowling Green (2-5) at Buffalo (4-3), 2:30 p.m. Lehigh (6-1) at Villanova (3-4), 2:30 p.m.

SOUTH

Rice (1-6) at FAU (4-2), 11 a.m. Jackson St. (6-1) at Bethune-Cookman (4-3), noon ETSU (5-2) at VMI (0-7), 12:30 p.m. Norfolk St. (4-3) at SC State (5-2), 12:30 p.m. Tarleton St. (7-0) at West Georgia (1-6), 1 p.m. Tennessee Tech (6-1) at The Citadel (2-5), 1 p.m. Samford (1-6) at Furman (2-5), 1 p.m. Monmouth (NJ) (5-2) at Hampton (1-6), 1 p.m. Stetson (1-6) at Morehead St. (1-6), 1 p.m. Colgate (4-3) at Richmond (5-2), 1 p.m. Chattanooga (4-3) at W. Carolina (3-4), 1:30 p.m. Nicholls (2-5) at Northwestern St. (0-7), 2 p.m. Ark.-Pine Bluff (3-3) at Florida A&M (2-5), 2 p.m. West Florida (4-2) at E. Kentucky (2-5), 2 p.m. Boston College (3-3) at Georgia Tech (2-4), 2:30 p.m. Oklahoma (3-3) at Mississippi St. (4-2), 2:30 p.m. Charleston Southern (3-4) at Tennessee St. (2-5), 2:30 p.m. Georgetown (2-4) at William & Mary (3-4), 2:30 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe (0-6) at Troy (3-3), 3 p.m. Old Dominion (2-5) at Louisiana Tech (4-2), 4 p.m. Virginia Tech (5-2) at Clemson (4-2), 6 p.m. Austin Peay (6-2) at North Alabama (4-3), 6 p.m. Syracuse (2-4) at North Carolina (4-2), 6:30 p.m.

MIDWEST

2 5 0

San Diego (3-4) at Dayton (5-1), 11 a.m. W. Michigan (5-2) at Toledo (5-2), 11 a.m. Akron (1-6) at Kent St. (2-5), noon Presbyterian (4-3) at Valparaiso (3-4), noon Baylor (4-2) at Kansas (2-4), noon Butler (5-2) at Drake (2-5), noon

Miami (Ohio) (4-3) at Cent. Michigan (3-4), noon North Dakota (6-2) at South Dakota (6-2), 1 p.m. N. Iowa (3-3) at S. Illinois (3-5), 1 p.m. Murray St. (1-6) at S. Dakota St. (5-2), 2 p.m. Oregon (4-2) at Illinois (3-3), 2 p.m. Chicago State (1-6) at Lindenwood (Mo.) (2-4), 2 p.m. Indiana St. (2-5) at Illinois St. (5-2), 2 p.m. SE Missouri (4-3) at E. Illinois (2-5), 2 p.m. Sacramento St. (1-6) at Ball St. (2-5), 2:30 p.m. Hawaii (1-6) at N. Illinois (0-6), 2:30 p.m. UT Martin (3-4) at W. Illinois (3-4), 3 p.m. E. Michigan (4-4) at Ohio (5-2), 3 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

West Virginia (4-3) at TCU (3-3), 11 a.m. Southern U. (3-4) at Texas Southern (1-5), 2 p.m. Houston Christian (4-3) at Lamar (5-2), 3 p.m. McNeese St. (3-4) at Incarnate Word (3-4), 4 p.m. UT Rio Grande Valley (3-4) at Central Arkansas (2-5), 4 p.m. SE Louisiana (4-3) at Stephen F. Austin (7-0), 5 p.m. Colorado (2-4) at Oklahoma St. (4-2), 6 p.m. Prairie View (3-5) at East Texas A&M (2-5), 6 p.m. Georgia St. (4-2) at Arkansas St. (3-4), 6 p.m. Utah St. (2-4) at Texas State (3-3), 6:30 p.m.

FAR WEST

Weber St. (5-3) at Montana St. (6-1), 2 p.m. Kansas St. (4-2) at Arizona St. (3-3), 2:45 p.m. San Jose St. (4-3) at Nevada (2-4), 4 p.m. S. Utah (3-4) at Idaho (2-5), 4 p.m. Utah Tech (0-7) at Cal Poly (4-4), 4 p.m. Portland St. (2-5) at Idaho St. (4-3), 5 p.m. San Diego St. (3-4) at Colorado St. (2-4), 5:30 p.m. N. Colorado (3-5) at UC Davis (4-3), 6 p.m. N. Dakota St. (6-1) at New Mexico (5-1), 9 p.m.

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No. 10 Utah (6-0, 3-0 Big 12), one of three undefeated teams in the Big 12, has the nation’s longest active FBS winning streak at 12 games, and that includes their last eight conference games.The Utes are 6-0 for the first time since 2015. Morgan Scalley is the school’s first head coach in his first full season to win the first six games. No. 14 Houston (6-1, 3-1) has a four-game winning streak since a 28-26 loss at undefeated Texas Tech after QB Conner Weigman came up just inches short of a late 2-point conversion.

RED RAIDERS HOPE TO STAY PERFECT

No. 8 Texas Tech (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) and Cincinnati (4-2, 1-2) are meeting Saturday for the first time since quarterback Brendan Sorsby’s transfer from the Bearcats to the Red Raiders fell through amid gambling allegations. Red Raiders QB Will Hammond has passed for 1,334 yards and six touchdowns with five interceptions. Bearcats QB JC French set career highs with 389 yards and three touchdowns in last week’s 45-42 loss at West Virginia.

STRUGGLING HORNS HOST OLE MISS

No. 7 Ole Miss (5-1, 3-1 SEC) is one of four SEC teams with one loss and seems to have shaken off a rout by Florida a month ago. No. 19 Texas (4-2, 1-2) is on a two-game skid, and there were questions whether Arch Manning would give way to KJ Lacey or remain the Longhorns’ starting QB. Still,Texas with its 11thranked defense is a 3.5-point home favorite against an Ole Miss team whose offensive trio of quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, running back Kewan Lacy and receiver Deuce Alexander have accounted for 2,725 yards this season. — Associated Press

SEC RATINGS BY KOKI RILEY 1. GEORGIA Record: 6-1, 4-1 Previous ranking: 1 Last week: lost to Auburn 27-24 This week: off 2. OLE MISS Record: 5-1, 3-1 Previous ranking: 3 Last week: beat Missouri 31-3 This week: at Texas, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC) 3. TENNESSEE Record: 6-1, 3-1 Previous ranking: 9 Last week: beat Alabama 26-10 This week: at South Carolina, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN) 4. ALABAMA Record: 5-2, 3-2 Previous ranking: 2 Last week: lost to Tennessee 26-10 This week: vs.Texas A&M, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC) 5. LSU Record: 5-2, 2-2 Previous ranking: 7 Last week: beat Mississippi State 31-0 This week: at Auburn, 11 a.m. Saturday (ABC) 6. KENTUCKY Record: 6-1, 4-1 Previous ranking: 8 Last week: beat Oklahoma 21-13 This week: vs.Vanderbilt, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (SEC Network)

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LSU safety Ty Benefield, right, celebrates an interception in the first quarter against Mississippi State on Oct. 17 at Tiger Stadium. The Tigers will likely need to win the turnover battle at Auburn on Saturday.

Critical factors face LSU at Auburn When LSU and Auburn meet on Saturday, what can we expect? Will barns burn, or victory cigars? Will the earth shake, or just coaches’ reputations? Will Auburn fans roll Toomer’s Corner in another toilet paper celebration, or will LSU make tears roll instead? There are a million ways to look at this one, set for an 11 a.m. kickoff on ABC from Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium. Let’s dive into some key factors:

History and momentum Even though LSU (5-2, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) goes into this one as slightly better than a touchdown favorite over Auburn (4-2, 2-2 SEC), the visiting Tigers aren’t inspiring a great deal of conﬁdence. That’s because LSU has lost Scott its past eight straight SEC Rabalais road games dating back to October 2024, including road losses under Lane Kifﬁn at Ole Miss and Kentucky. Conversely, Auburn is coming off one of the season’s biggest shockers, a 27-24 win at previously top-ranked Georgia as nearly a three-touchdown underdog.

Pressure versus ‘relief syndrome’ LSU’s long SEC road losing streak has little to do with Kiffin and most of his players since two-thirds of them are in their first year with the program. Still, if the Tigers drop their ninth straight SEC road game and fall to 0-3 under Kiffin away from Tiger Stadium — all losses to first-year coaches at their schools — then the optics for LSU’s $91 million man and his $45 million to 50 million roster won’t be good. Especially since it could well mean the end of the Tigers’ College Football Playoff hopes. Auburn is Must Win City for LSU. Meanwhile, Auburn must try to avoid something that has tripped up other SEC

schools in 2026 after a big win: a “Hangover Saturday,” or what Kiffin called “relief syndrome.” We submit these results into evidence: n Ole Miss beat LSU 32-24, then was routed 52-28 at Florida. n After stomping Ole Miss, Florida was stomped 45-17 at Missouri. n Oklahoma beat Texas 27-24, then fell as a favorite at home 21-13 to Kentucky. n Georgia won 20-17 at Alabama, then lost to Auburn. “Relief syndrome,” Kiffin said, “is a real thing. Doesn’t mean we’re going to win this week and they’re going to lose, but that is a real thing. A real challenge.” Kiffin said he hoped Auburn would beat Georgia for that very reason. Little was expected of Auburn going into its first season under Alex Golesh. Now all eyes are on the Plainsmen (old Auburn nickname) for the first time in years. How will they respond?

Numbers game Statistically the game is a mismatch, heavily favoring LSU in most key areas: Total offense: LSU is seventh nationally averaging 504.0 yards per game. Auburn is 66th at 394.2. Total defense: LSU is third nationally allowing 256.4 ypg. Auburn is 87th (371.0). Points per game: LSU is again seventh at 40.4 per game. Auburn is 85th (26.8). Points allowed: LSU is tied for 16th (15.9 per game). Auburn is tied for 54th (21.8). Sacks/sacks allowed: LSU has 27 sacks, tied for second in the FBS. Auburn has allowed 23, ranking 135th of 138 teams. There is one other stat that could decide the game, however, that LSU likely must win.

ESPN/ABC analyst Greg McElroy, who is calling Saturday’s game, Kiffin teams are 3-19 when minus-2 or worse in the turnover ratio. LSU was minus-1 at Ole Miss and minus-2 at Kentucky. Conversely, McElroy said Golesh’s teams at Auburn and USF are a sparkling 20-1 when winning the turnover ratio. That included a 3-0 edge against Georgia. Both LSU turnovers against Kentucky were on quarterback Sam Leavitt (one interception, one fumble). Neither led to points for the Wildcats but did cost LSU two potential scoring drives that may have allowed the Tigers to avoid overtime. In the duel between Leavitt and Auburn’s Byrum Brown, the quarterback who has a cleaner stat sheet will likely prevail. Overall, Leavitt appears to be improving despite still dealing with a sore hamstring. Per Pro Football Focus, his average time to target on pass plays has dropped from 3.06 seconds his first three games to 2.55 the past four. That’s a quarterback growing in confidence in a new offense. Conversely, Brown averages more than three seconds per pass attempt. Against LSU’s formidable pass rush, that could be significant. Brown basically holds the ball too long, but if he decides to take off and run (he had 115 yards and a touchdown on 26 carries at Georgia), LSU must contain him. Defensive coordinator Blake Baker could choose to crowd the line of scrimmage while trusting a talented secondary against an Auburn attack that only ranks 99th in passing efficiency.

Tempo and total plays

The Tigers have only won the turnover battle twice (Texas A&M, McNeese State) and are minus-2 overall. According to

Both teams like to speed opponents up. LSU ranks third nationally with over 79 snaps a game, while Auburn’s defense is on the ﬁeld for 73 plays a game, ranking 133rd in the FBS. That makes it important for LSU to keep up the pace and possess the ball, a potentially difﬁcult combination in a hostile road environment.

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7. MISSISSIPPI STATE Record: 4-2, 2-2 Previous ranking: 4 Last week: lost to LSU 31-0 This week: vs. Oklahoma, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (SEC Network) 8. FLORIDA Record: 5-2, 3-2 Previous ranking: 10 Last week: beat Texas 27-24 This week: off 9. TEXAS Record: 4-2, 1-2 Previous ranking: 6 Last week: lost to Florida 27-24 This week: vs. Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC) 10. MISSOURI Record: 5-2, 2-2 Previous ranking: 5 Last week: lost to Ole Miss 31-3 This week: off 11. AUBURN Record: 4-2, 2-2 Previous ranking: 13 Last week: beat Georgia 27-24 This week: vs. LSU, 11 a.m. Saturday (ABC) 12. SOUTH CAROLINA Record: 3-3, 1-3 Previous ranking: 12 Last week: off This week: vs.Tennessee, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN) 13. OKLAHOMA Record: 3-3, 1-2 Previous ranking: 11 Last week: lost to Kentucky 21-13 This week: at Mississippi State, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (SEC Network) 14. TEXAS A&M Record: 4-3, 1-3 Previous ranking: 14 Last week: beat The Citadel 41-0 This week: at Alabama, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC) 15. ARKANSAS Record: 3-4, 1-3 Previous ranking: 16 Last week: beat Vanderbilt 31-21 This week: off 16. VANDERBILT Record: 3-4, 0-4 Previous ranking: 15 Last week: lost to Arkansas 31-21 This week: at Kentucky, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (SEC Network)

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Tulane quarterback Trace Johnson keeps the ball as Memphis safety Ian Foster pursues on Oct. 16 at Yulman Stadium. After defeating the Tigers 31-17, Johnson and the Green Wave will try to make it two in a row with a victory over UTSA on Saturday night in Yulman Stadium.

Despite standing only 6-foot tall, QB Johnson aims to play big for Green Wave

f freshman quarterback Trace Johnson were even as tall as his former NFL-playing father, Tulane coach Will Hall said the Green Wave never would have gotten a chance to sign him. He is convinced the 6-foot Johnson would have begun his college career at a school like Florida, where his dad, Doug Johnson, started for the better part of three seasons from 1997-99 before spending seven years as an NFL backup. Doug Johnson was no giant at 6-2, but that difference means the world in college football recruiting.

MORE ON PAGE 7C n American Conference power rankings n Tulane statistics, schedule n Guerry Smith’s prediction “He (Trace) was a ﬁve-star recruit if he were 6-3,” Hall said. “Everyone would have been after him.” Instead, Johnson was rated three stars and the No. 134 quarterback prospect by 247Sports. All of the four- and ﬁve-star quarterbacks on that site were taller

than 6 feet, but Tulane — which beat out West Virginia and East Carolina, among others — is thankful to have him. Johnson, whom Hall labeled his quarterback of the future in spring practice, has become the signal-caller of the present. When Tulane (3-3, 1-1 American Conference) faces Texas-San Antonio (6-1, 3-0) on Saturday night at Yulman Stadium (7 p.m., ESPNU), he will start his second consecutive game after guiding the Wave past Memphis 31-17 in his ﬁrst career start. “People were scared to pull the trigger

on me because of my size, but at the end of the day none of that matters,” he said. “I’m glad I’m here.” Hall, who passed his way to the Harlon Hill Trophy in 2003 as the most valuable player in Division II at a shade under 5-8, felt a kinship with Johnson the ﬁrst time he saw him during a 2025 Tulane summer camp workout at the Saints’ practice facility. Hall offered positive parting words. “I said, dude, don’t ever let anybody

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Legendary LSU coach Brown dies Seminal figure led Tigers to NCAA tourney 13 times in career Staff report

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French journalist Lionel Buton, left, takes a selfie with fellow French journalist Axel Toudic during a Saints practice in Versailles, France, on Wednesday.

French broadcasters don’t want NFL game to be lost in translation BY MATTHEW PARAS

Staff writer

PARIS — French residents tuning in Sunday for the country’s ﬁrstever NFL game may know next to nothing about the sport, its rules or its teams when the New Orleans Saints take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at Stade de France. But odds are they’ll at least recognize the voice calling the game. Matthieu Lartot will be the playby-play man for France Télévisions, a familiar face after years of calling rugby and tennis, two of the country’s biggest sports. “They’ll see him and say, ‘Oh, this is serious,’ ” said Samyr Hamoudi, the color commentator for Sun-

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day’s game alongside Lartot. As the NFL expands its international series into Paris, the league is betting that France’s love of sports will lead the country to connect with American football. But to fall in love with the game, French fans ﬁrst will have to understand it. That barrier to entry can be steep. How do you explain a sport as complex as football in a way that’s simple enough to compel ﬁrst-time viewers? France is the NFL’s latest try. Sunday’s game will have three primary French-language broadcasts.

There’s France Télévisions, the state-owned network. There’s beIN Sports, a subscription channel comparable to ESPN. And there’s L’Equipe, which airs its broadcast on delay in primetime. Three different networks. Three different ways of trying to explain the game. The NFL hopes the broad reach will bring in a new wave of fans. “It’s a balance,” said Jeff Lombardi, who leads the NFL’s international media operations for broadcasters. “We don’t want to dumb down the game for the avid fan, but we want to provide enough context so that a new fan can turn it on and

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Dale Brown, who built the LSU men’s basketball team into a consistent title contender and became the second-winningest coach in the history of the Southeastern Conference, died at the age of 90 on Friday. Brown was a seminal figure at LSU, in the SEC and nationwide. He directed the Tigers for 25 years, won four league championships, was runner-up four times, made 13 appearances in the NCAA Tournament and reached the Final Four twice. “We have lost the most loving and most loved man any of us have ever known,” his family said in a statement released Friday. “Dale Brown always put others first. He was always a great humanitarian before anything else. “Dale long ago fell in love with Louisiana. And the people of Louisiana loved him right back. “We are forever grateful for that.” On Tuesday, Brown was named the 2027 recipient of the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award by the Los Angeles Athletic Club. When you consider his success on the court and his impact on the game as a whole, Brown certainly fit the description of a legend. Brown’s total of 448 SEC wins is

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Longtime LSU basketball coach Dale Brown speaks during dedication of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center’s basketball court as Dale Brown Court on Jan. 4, 2022. Brown died at the age of 90 on Friday. second only to Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp, who coached the Wildcats to 876. But Brown’s 301 losses also give him the most by a coach in SEC history — mostly the result of his last four seasons, when the Tigers were a cumulative 45-68. Brown coached Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Jackson (now Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf) and Rudy Macklin, each an All-American — although some of his best teams were ﬁlled more with overachiev-

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Continued from page 5C ers than superstars. A Washington State assistant, Brown, a native of North Dakota where he was a noted athlete at Minot State Teacher’s College, was hired in 1972 on the recommendation of former LSU basketball player and future athletic director Joe Dean to then-AD Carl Maddox. Brown ultimately lifted the program higher — and for longer — than it had ever been before. The achievements of Brown were overshadowed somewhat by his quixotic quest for universal justice and his striving for a nearperfect world. Brown, a compulsive defender of the underdog and the man whom Norman Vincent Peale once said motivated him, used his job as a bully pulpit against social ills for 25 years — a trademark that defined Brown every bit as much as his coaching acumen. Sports were part of Brown’s life, but not his entire life. “I know the Louvre isn’t an out-of-bounds play,” Brown reflected before his last home game in 1997, making the point that basketball didn’t consume him as it does so many others. “I can talk about the planets, Michelangelo and that ‘Blue Boy’ is not a cadaver.” Still, Brown left an indelible imprint on Louisiana basketball. He was a complex man who seldom received praise for his basketball achievements by LSU fans, even though he was SEC Coach of the Year or runner-up nine times and National Coach of Year twice. LSU had four winning seasons in the previous 18 before Brown’s arrival. He ended his career with four consecutive losing seasons, but before that he forged 17 consecutive nonlosing seasons. In 1980-81, Brown’s Tigers were 31-5, the most victories in the nation and still the best season ever at LSU, which lost to Indiana in the Final Four. Five years later, the Tigers became the first No. 11 seed to reach the Final Four, beating their region’s top three seeds to get there. He also coached two more teams to the Elite Eight. In the midst of his basketball success, Brown reveled in championing the underdogs of society. He used his position to point out the inequities of life, from the underprivileged to the under-educated, from the hypocrisy of government to the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which he once famously characterized as “Gestapo bas-

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Former LSU basketball coach Dale Brown cuts down the net after winning the last game he coached on the Tigers’ home court against Arkansas on March 1, 1997.

tards” for the uneven way he believed it governed. Once, he even dared the organization to give him a lie-detector test to prove him wrong. In the process of openly challenging the NCAA, to hear Brown tell it, he brought on the wrath — and a personal vendetta — of the organization against him. In 1981, the LSU program was shaken when guard Mark Alcorn was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Alcorn was from St. Louis, and he hoped three of his teammates and closest friends could attend a dinner for him. Brown informed the NCAA that he wanted to fly the three there, but he was told that was a violation of NCAA rules — that it would be considered “off-campus entertainment.” Brown gave the three players $300 apiece to attend. That brought on the enmity of the NCAA, which hounded Brown’s program for years with only minor success, none of it involving the coach. The NCAA finally nabbed Brown when he recruited Baton Rouge’s Lester Earl in 1996. Earl only lasted 11 games before being suspended. He transferred to Kansas, where he said an LSU assistant gave him money. The NCAA could find no evidence of such a transaction, but it did find a booster had given the player $5,000, and LSU was placed on probation. Years later, Earl recanted his statements and

real time. BeIn Sports color commentator Marc-Angelo Soumah said that most people in France are aware of American football, particularly because of the Super Bowl. But they’re more likely to know who played the halftime show than who won the game. “You first expose them to the event,” Soumah said. “And then you expose them to the sports.” The plan is to be authentic. As a play-by-play man for 30 years, Buton said he wants the broadcast to feel fun. He takes pride in his dynamic with Soumah, as they both love the game and hope their passion comes through. “I know we have a good chemistry with my partner, which is not the case with Troy Aikman and Joe Buck right now,” Buton said, joking about the ESPN duo’s contract drama. L’Equipe faces its own set of challenges. Because the network is airing the game, which kicks off at 3:30 p.m. local time, in primetime (9 p.m.), L’Equipe color commentator Anthony Mahoungou said he’ll call Sunday’s result on delay from a studio — hours after he already witnessed the game in person. “I will have to make sure we keep everything a surprise and be surprised to live the moment with everybody who’s watching on TV,” Mahoungou said. Hamoudi hopes to capture people’s attention by explaining the stakes and comparing the teams in ways they can relate. The analyst plans to reiterate the Saints’ French connections and also intends to explain how the Steelers are like Saint-Étienne, a historic soccer team from a blue-collar town. “The result is important,” Hamoudi said, “but we’re going to sell a show.”

In his 25 years as an NFL analyst, Hamoudi has found that some football phrases don’t work in French. Sure, he could translate it directly. But the viewers would have no idea what he’s talking about, he said. “Drop-backs, that’s something people don’t know, so you say ‘il recule,’ and ‘il recule’ is more like he’s going backward,” Hamoudi said. “You have a pass in the ﬂat, make sure you say it’s in the short zone.” The networks involved in Sunday’s game are accounting for plenty of first-time viewers. At beIN Sports, play-by-play man Lionel Buton said the network is fully leaning into the spectacle of Sunday’s game with a one-hour pregame show. Buton said they’re treating the game as France’s “Super Bowl,” going all out with their coverage. Because beIN Sports already hosts NFL games, Buton said he doesn’t necessarily expect to call the game differently in terms of play-by-play. But that’s not the case for France Télévisions, where Hamoudi said he plans to remind viewers every quarter of the basics: Four downs to get 10 yards, 10 yards to keep the drive moving, etc. The NFL also helps its international broadcasts. Lombardi said the league provides short vignettes — football “101s” — that can air between breaks to help educate new viewers. The league also gives producers a live feed of the American call, so that if Kurt Warner makes a smart observation on NFL Network about Long time coming what’s happening on the ﬁeld, the Growing up in the south of producer can relay that informa- France, Buton remembers the tion to their own broadcasters in moment he quit playing soccer.

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said he was intimidated and manipulated by the NCAA to give them anything they could use against Brown — or else he would lose years of eligibility. He publicly apologized to Brown and LSU. Brown parlayed his basketball pulpit into access to some of the world’s luminaries, such as Mother Teresa and President George H.W. Bush, who sent Brown a personal note upon learning of the coach’s retirement. His often unorthodox behavior — which endeared him to some and baffled others — made Brown a compelling figure. He traveled the length of the Mississippi River in a 19-foot speedboat; knocked heads with the KGB in an unsuccessful effort to sneak a player out of the Soviet Union; brought his players to the Carville leper colony and to Angola State Prison to show them the realities of life; and successfully fought for the freedom of a prisoner whom he met during a team scrimmage at the prison. “I never considered myself white,” Brown once said. “I never considered myself a North Dakotan. I never considered myself a basketball coach. “I never considered myself a Yankee. I always think of myself as a human being. I look at people that way.’’ At LSU, where football was always the bell cow and other sports simply tolerated, what Brown did as much as anything was change the attitude toward basketball, making it a major force in the athletic department. Brown recalled Dean telling him: “If you take the job, you will raise the flag, you will sing the national anthem, you will keep your own stats and you will sweep the floor. (LSU is) totally uninterested in basketball.” That was not entirely true. LSU basketball was still in the afterglow of the Pistol Pete Maravich era, and the seeds had been sown in Louisiana for a basketball harvest. But there is also no question that basketball was a second-class citizen in the LSU athletic department. Brown accepted the job, then forced the sport down the doubters’ throats. He refused to accept anything less than equal treatment for his team. “It was exhausting just dealing with your own school — much less Kentucky, Tennessee and the other people we were trying to compete with,” Brown said. Brown caught the attention of Tigers fans in his very first game, when LSU defeated No. 3 Memphis State, a team that finished the season in the NCAA Tournament title game against UCLA. That was the first of 28 top-10 teams LSU beat under Brown.

He was 14, and his coach subbed him out for not flopping to draw a penalty. Buton, now 56, found American football soon after that. “I get to watch the NFL, and it was quite the opposite of that,” said Buton, who went on to play quarterback for the Canonniers de Toulon, a French club that plays American football. “You don’t want to stay down. You don’t want to show pain. Those were things that I loved about the sport then.” Die-hard NFL fans in France have their own story of how they’ve come to love the game. Soumah said he was drawn to the 1986 New York Giants, causing him to scour newspapers for any additional info and wake up in the wee hours of the morning to consume any footage he could get. Soumah has been a pioneer for American football in France. After playing in NFL Europe and having an offseason stint with the 2003 Cleveland Browns, Soumah became the president of the Fédération Française de Football Américain, which oversees all levels of American football in France. He also co-founded the Paris Musketeers, a team in the European Football Alliance. Hamoudi and Mahoungou have extensive playing experience as well. Hamoudi, a former cornerback, played in NFL Europe from 1999-2003. Mahoungou played college football at Purdue, spent the 2018 offseason with the Philadelphia Eagles and has bounced between Canadian and European leagues since. The 32-year-old wide receiver is also focused on flag football, hoping to represent France in the 2028 Olympics. So for the NFL to finally have a game in France, there’s no wonder they’re excited. “We were expecting to have it sooner,” Soumah said. “We were pissed off to have Madrid before Paris, because we consider our-

selves a bigger market, a bigger audience and a bigger lover of American football. For me as a passionate guy, it’s like, ‘Finally! Finally, this happened.’ ” Ideally, the NFL would have liked to be in France sooner. Brett Gosper, the NFL’s head of Europe and Asia-Pacific, said the league waited out the 2024 Paris Olympics because Stade de France needed to undergo renovations to accommodate the needs of an NFL game. He believes there’s still genuine interest: 70% of tickets to this weekend’s outing have been purchased by the French, he said. The league closely will monitor how the game performs on local television. Gosper touted that a France Télévisions program about the New Orleans Saints peaked at 3 million viewers — though the executive fairly noted the show was aired after President Emmanuel Macron’s address about civil unrest and protests across the country. “It’s an incredible number,” Gosper said, noting the broadcast still averaged 2 million viewers. The expectations for Sunday’s game are much more modest. Lombardi said the NFL expects France Télévisions broadcast to average around 500,000 viewers, which would be lower than the 900,000 that Germany’s first NFL game drew locally. “It is just making sure that we’re growing,” Lombardi said about the league’s plans for France. “And that next year it’s 5%, 10% more, 25% more.” Speaking over the phone, Buton thought back to the days when he first fell in love with the NFL. He had trouble finding a football in France, so he used to fold 50 socks into a tube shape so he could teach himself how to throw a spiral. Now he’s ready to teach anyone tuning in for the first time. “Being able to watch a game in France now,” Buton said, “I just think it’s amazing. It’s like going full circle, you know?”

Top-ranked Rybakina avoids upset at Ningbo Open

NINGBO, China — Top-ranked Elena Rybakina avoided a major upset as she was pushed to a deciding set by qualifier Katarzyna Kawa in the quarterfinals of the Ningbo Open on Friday. Rybakina eventually made it through 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 to set up a semifinal meeting with Diana Shnaider and continue her Ningbo title defense. The 128th-ranked Kawa was coming off a big upset win over Belinda Bencic and threatened another when she broke Rybakina’s serve three times in a back-andforth second set. Sixth-seeded Shnaider beat fourth-seeded American Iva Jovic 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 and will now bid to reach the Ningbo final again after she was runner-up in 2023. In the other semifinal match, Leylah Fernandez will face Marie Bouzkova.

Bills DB Franklin wins appeal, suspension reduced to fine

NEW YORK — Buffalo Bills defensive back Sam Franklin has successfully appealed his one-game suspension for what the NFL said was an act of spitting at an opponent on Sunday. The league announced Friday that hearing ofﬁcer James Thrash reduced the punishment to a ﬁne of $14,926 for unsportsmanlike conduct. That makes Franklin eligible to play in Buffalo’s next game on Nov. 1 against Baltimore, following the Bills’ bye week. Agent Harold Lewis adamantly denied that Franklin spit on anyone. Teammate C.J. Gardner-Johnson had his one-game spitting suspension upheld Thursday after appealing it.

Atlanta Falcons throwback logo causes stir online

ATLANTA — A social media post by the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons of their throwback logo on a red, white, gold and black striped background has caused a stir online, with replies noting its resemblance to symbols from Nazi Germany. The logo release provoked thousands of responses on social media, many of them memes that mocked the design. The logo coincides with the Falcons wearing throwback uniforms Sunday at home against unbeaten San Francisco. That includes the team’s primary logo from 19892002 of a right-facing black and white falcon. The widely panned background is not part of the throwback helmets or uniforms. A message sent to the Falcons seeking comment Friday was not immediately returned.

Poulter, Hatton among LIV players to join exodus

Louis Oosthuizen one day, and then Ian Poulter and Tyrrell Hatton. The players departing from LIV Golf seem to be increasing by the day with a Sunday deadline potentially looming for other players to decide if they are staying for the new version that no longer includes Saudi money. Former world No. 1 Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia already have separated from LIV Golf, which is emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with BC Partners Credit and its $300 million pledge. Poulter and Hatton both posted Friday on Instagram they will not be part of LIV 2.0. “I am excited for what the next chapter of my career holds,” Hatton wrote in a brief note to conﬁrm the Englishman is leaving.

Krauskopf steps down as Indiana Fever president

Kelly Krauskopf stepped down as president of the Indiana Fever, the team announced Friday. She took over that role in 2024 after spending six seasons as the assistant general manager of the Indiana Pacers. Krauskopf told the franchise during the recently completed season that she would step down at the end of it. She started with the Fever ahead of the team’s inaugural season in 2000. The Fever have made the playoffs in each of the last two seasons, reaching the semiﬁnals in 2025. Before joining the Fever, she served as the WNBA’s ﬁrst director of basketball operations, helping establish the league’s foundational rules, scheduling and officiating policies ahead of its launch in 1997.

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GAMEDAY TEAM STATS OFFENSE PER GAME Yards gained: 332.0 PASS 179.7

RUSH 152.3

Plays: 59.1 PASS 25.8

RUSH 33.3

Turnovers: 0.83 INTERCEPTIONS 0.50

FUMBLES 0.33

DEFENSE PER GAME Yards allowed: 420.7 PASS 208.2

RUSH 212.5

Turnovers forced: 1.17 INTERCEPTIONS 0.50

FUMBLES 0.67

SCORING PER GAME 27.7

21.7

20.5

23.9

SCORED ALLOWED

2026

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LEADERS PASSING Kadin Semonza 53.8%, 804 yards, 4 TDs, 2 INTs Trace Johnson 50.0%, 200 yards, 1 TDs, 1 INT RUSHING Maurice Turner 37 carries, 315 yards, 8.5 avg, 2 TDs RECEIVING Destyn Hill 21 catches, 285 yards, 13.6 avg, 2 TDs Anthony Brown-Stephens 16 catches, 211 yards, 13.2 avg, 1 TD Bredell Richardson 10 catches, 115 yards, 11.5 avg DEFENSE Dickson Agu 56 tackles Kevin Adams 54 tackles, 2 for loss, 2 INTs

SCHEDULE SEPTEMBER 5 at Duke L, 17-3 12 South Alabama W, 28-24 19 at Kansas State L, 31-20 26 Southern Miss W, 24-21 OCTOBER 10 at Army L, 20-17 16 Memphis W, 31-17 24 UTSA 7 p.m./ESPNU 30 at Charlotte 6 p.m./ESPN2 NOVEMBER 7 Tulsa TBD 14 at Rice TBD 21 North Texas TBD 27 at South Florida TBD

PREDICTION TUALNE 31, UTSA 24: This is a vote of confidence in Tulane quarterback Trace Johnson, a freshman who is mature beyond his years, and a defense that destroyed Memphis quarterback Marcus Stokes last week. The pass rush will not have the same effect on UTSA quarterback Owen McCown, who gets the ball out quickly, but if it pressures him into even a few mistakes, the Green Wave should be in good shape. Although the Roadrunners have improved away from home, they still struggle to match their Alamodome dominance on both sides of the ball. Guerry Smith

AMERICAN STANDINGS Conf. W L UTSA 3 0 N. Texas 2 0 Army 3 1 Memphis 2 1 UAB 2 1 FAU 1 1 E. Carolina 1 1 Tulane 1 1 South Fla. 1 2 Tulsa 1 2 Temple 1 2 2 Charlotte 1 Navy 1 3 Rice 0 3

East PF 85 95 121 114 67 62 45 48 65 108 65 56 118 43

All Games PA W L PF PA 72 6 1 226 189 54 4 2 253 175 86 4 2 209 120 52 5 2 248 156 75 4 3 163 172 86 4 2 210 189 42 3 3 141 143 37 3 3 123 130 72 5 2 186 106 96 4 3 203 157 72 2 5 180 196 140 1 6 134 284 126 2 4 169 155 82 1 6 119 203

Thursday’s Games

Memphis 41, East Carolina 34, OT

Friday’s Games

Army at Tulsa, (n)

Saturday’s Games

Rice at Florida Atlantic, 11 a.m. North Texas at Navy, 2:30 p.m. UTSA at Tulane, 7 p.m.

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UTSA at TULANE

7 p.m. Saturday, Yulman Stadium TV: ESPNU | Radio: KVDU-FM, 104.1 Line: UTSA by 2½ (Over/Under: 51½)

New No. 1 in American emerges BY GUERRY SMITH Contributing writer

As the weekend began, there was a possibility of a seven-way tie for ﬁrst place in the loss column heading into the ﬁnal games of October in the wide-open American Conference. It was no long shot, requiring slight point-spread upsets by Army at Tulsa on Friday night, and Tulane at home against Texas-San Antonio and Navy at home against North Texas along with Florida Atlantic beating Rice at home as a heavy favorite on Saturday. In that scenario, Tulane, Memphis, Texas-San Antonio, Army, North Texas, Florida Atlantic and idle UAB would have one conference loss while everyone else has at least two. Wild.

1. Texas-San Antonio Record: 6-1, 3-0 American Previous rank: 2 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO BY BRANDON WADE Last week: defeated Navy 38-34 Texas-San Antonio quarterback Owen McCown looks for an open receiver during a game against North Texas This week: at Tulane, 7 p.m. Satur- on Oct. 18, 2025, in Denton, Texas. McCown and the Roadrunners top the American Conference rankings day (ESPNU) Extra points: The lead changed this week. hands four times in the fourth AMERICAN POWER Extra points: The Pirates easily quarter as UTSA beat Navy be- 5. Memphis could be undefeated in the Amerihind a season-high 359 yards RANKINGS passing from Owen McCown. The Record: 6-2, 3-1 can, but they have blown late leads Roadrunners, who have won three Previous rank: 1 on back-to-back Thursdays before Extra points: The Owls were flat- losing in overtime. They also likely straight squeakers in league play, Last week: lost to Tulane 31-17 will aim for their first significant This week: defeated East Carolina tened by the Black Knights. Caden became the first team in NCAA hisroad win in three years at Tulane. 41-34 in OT on Thursday Veltkamp threw an interception on tory to have two different quarterExtra points: The Tigers’ hangover the first snap, snapping a string of backs throw game-ending intercep2. North Texas from their six-turnover loss to Tu- four clean games, but defense was tions in back-to-back OT sessions. lane lasted a half. Trailing the Pi- the real issue as FAU was exposed Record: 4-2, 2-0 Previous rank: 3 rates 16-3 at the break, they scored as a pretender. Army scored touch- 12. Temple Last week: off 38 the rest of the way to win even downs on its first seven series and Record: 2-5, 1-2 This week: at Navy, 2:30 p.m. Satur- though Charles Huff coached as eight of nine overall. Previous rank: 12 if he thought he could cash in his Last week: lost to Charlotte 38-31 day (CBS Sports Network) This week: off Extra points: We still don’t know if saved timeouts for points at the 9. Navy Extra points: The early excitement the Mean Green, which has out- end of regulation. Record: 2-4, 1-3 under second-year coach K.C. KeePrevious rank: 7 scored three opponents at home Last week: lost to Texas-San Anto- ler is long gone. The Owls are 2-9 157-30, is for real. In its last two 6. South Florida road games, it lost by two touchsince the start of last November Record: 5-2, 1-2 nio 38-34 Previous rank: 5 This week: vs. North Texas, 2:30 and just gave up 26 first downs, 449 downs to Texas State and stopped Last week: defeated Kent State 29-2 p.m. Saturday (CBS Sports Net- yards and five touchdowns to hapTulsa an inch short of winning in This week: off overtime. A trip to Navy will rework) less Charlotte in front of 11,589 at Extra points: Maybe apologetic AD Extra points: The Midshipmen are Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelveal plenty. Rob Higgins should post one for out of the race after losing a heart- phia. Losses don’t come any worse. 3. Army the Bulls offense this week. South breaker to UTSA, but they will Florida managed only 271 yards be dangerous the rest of the way. 13. Charlotte Record: 4-2, 3-1 against 2-5 Kent State, did not hit Quarterbacks Jackson Gutierrez Previous rank: 6 Record: 1-6, 1-2 Last week: defeated Florida Atlan- the 200-yard mark until early in the and Braxton Woodson combined Previous rank: 14 fourth quarter, and ranks ahead of for 232 yards rushing and 183 Last week: defeated Temple 38-31 tic 56-24 only Rice and Charlotte in yards yards passing, including a 63-yard This week: off This week: at Tulsa on Friday (n) Extra points: The 49ers climbed out Extra points: Don’t sleep on the per game among American teams. TD toss from the latter to the forof last place here for the first time Black Knights. When Tulane failed mer. since Week 1 of 2025, snapping a to finish the job at West Point two 7. Tulsa 10. UAB 16-game skid against FBS teams weeks ago, Army emerged as a Record: 4-3, 1-2 and winning their first conference real contender. Quarterback Cale Previous rank: 10 Record: 4-3, 2-1 game since 2024. Their win at TemHellums rushed for 223 yards Last week: defeated Rice 38-17 Previous rank: 11 against Florida Atlantic. Of the This week: vs. Army on Friday (n) Last week: defeated East Carolina ple came courtesy of two passing remaining foes, only Memphis Extra points: Baylor Hayes went 30-17 in OT TDs and two rushing TDs from QB appears capable of slowing him 20 of 27 for 249 yards and three This week: off Conner Harrell in his second start. down. touchdowns as Tulsa won for the Extra points: QB Ryder Burton defirst time in conference play, but serves a badge of courage for the 14. Rice 4. Tulane it is nuts this team was favored way he hung in there when his Record: 1-6, 0-3 over Army while playing a nearly offensive line was totally overPrevious rank: 13 Record: 3-3, 1-1 unprecedented third straight game matched by East Carolina. He comLast week: lost to Tulsa 38-17 Previous rank: 9 This week: at Florida Atlantic, 11 Last week: defeated Memphis 31-17 vs. an option opponent. Rice rushed pleted six passes on a late 93-yard This week: vs. Texas-San Antonio, 7 for 289 yards a week after Navy drive that took 62 seconds, ran for a.m. Saturday (ESPNU) ran for 481 against the Golden Hur- the tying two-point conversion and p.m. Saturday (ESPNU) Extra points: The Owls have not led Extra points: Is forcing six turn- ricane. completed two clutch throws in OT. in the fourth quarter since their opening win vs. Houston Christian. overs, as Tulane did against Mem11. East Carolina That’s a problem since their anemic phis, a sustainable formula for 8. Florida Atlantic passing game ranks third-to-last nasuccess? No, but registering sevRecord: 4-2, 1-1 Record: 3-4, 1-2 Previous rank: 4 Previous rank: 8 tionally in yards (97.5 average) and en sacks while turning a formerly Last week: lost to Army 56-24 Last week: lost to UAB 30-17 in OT efficiency. Quarterback Jacurri confident quarterback (Marcus This week: vs. Rice, 11 a.m. SaturThis week: lost to Memphis 41-34 in Brown’s 50- and 78-yard TD runs Stokes) into a jittery performer is OT on Thursday vs. Tulsa were not nearly enough. a clear precursor to success. day (ESPNU)

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Continued from page 5C tell you you’re not tall enough to be a college quarterback,” Hall said. “I hope it works out here, but you’re the real deal.” If Johnson struggles, it will not be for a lack of preparation. Starting in big games was virtually his destiny from the crib. “My first word was ball,” he said. “I was always throwing with my dad. Honestly, ever since I can remember I wanted to play in the NFL, and I wanted to be a college quarterback.” He threw for 6,366 yards and 64 touchdowns as a sophomore and junior in high school, leading Gainesville (Fla.) Buchholz to the semifinals of the Class 6A state playoffs in both years. In March 2025, he decided to play his senior year at Santa Margarita Catholic in California, where he could be tutored by former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback and three-time Pro Bowl participant Carson Palmer, a first-year coach. He had lived in Gainesville his entire life. He considered Buchholz coach Mark Whittemore a father figure, but the opportunity was too good to pass up. “I went back and forth on it and finally just prayed on it a lot,” he

said. “I talked to the people that mattered in my life. I’m sure some people didn’t take it well, but the people that mattered to me took it well.” After a 7-3 regular season, Santa Margarita Catholic ripped through the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division I playoffs for its first championship since 2011, winning the final 42-7 as Johnson threw four touchdown passes. He then went 17 of 20 for 247 yards and four more scores in a 47-13 rout in the Open Division final. The presence of all-world receiver Trent Mosley helped. Mosley put up preposterous numbers in both games and already has three 100-yard days as a freshman at USC, but the biggest benefit was playing under Palmer. “Man, I could think of a hundred things, but obviously just learning from him, another father figure in my life, was super cool,” Johnson said. “He’s like a professor of the game. I was able to pick his mind every day. I learned how to be a leader and how to be a friend, just everything.” Already having committed to Tulane, he remained firm when Jon Sumrall took the Florida job less than a week before signing day. Hall’s promotion and his primary recruiter Collin D’Angelo’s ascension from analyst to full-

time quarterbacks coach made him feel even better. “I had zero change of heart,” he said. “I love coach Hall. I believe in that guy. There was no secondguessing.” When he arrived at Tulane in the spring, he began grinding. His mindset did not waver as he lost a close four-way competition for the starting position in preseason camp and another twoway battle for the top spot during the open week after he relieved Kadin Semonza in the fourthquarter of a comeback victory against Southern Miss. He began taking the majority of the first-string reps in practice on the Monday following a frustrating 20-17 loss to Army and does not plan to look back. “It’s just about having a lot of people in my life that have played the position and then my work ethic,” he said. “You’re not going to be just given this opportunity based off chance. You have to have the work ethic, and I do. That’s why I am here.” He also possesses a strong arm, good accuracy and the ability to make off-schedule plays. In the second quarter against Memphis, he scrambled to his right and threw a strike across his body in traffic to Anthony BrownStephens to set up a field goal. In the third quarter, he spun away

from a possible sack and turned it into a first-down completion to Garrett Mmahat. “He really impressed me by the way he extended the plays and stayed calm when the pressure was hot,” said running back Johnnie Daniels, who scored the clinching touchdown. “He showed a lot of maturity.” Johnson’s confidence in scramble situations has grown with good health. He said he played through a back injury that limited his mobility as a high school sophomore, and he dealt with issues on opposite knees during his junior and senior seasons. “It’s really come alive in my game just because I haven’t been injured,” he said. “For most of my high school career, no one saw that side of me.” Saturday night will be his first full opportunity to show what he can do. He threw only five passes in his relief appearance against Southern Miss, completing two, and was 11 of 21 with a conservative game plan in a wind storm against Memphis. If he gets a chance to let it loose, he believes he is ready. “I’m just a natural leader,” he said. “I work well in groups. I’m good with communication. At this position you’ve got to take control and make sure everyone believes in you.”

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THE VARSITY ZONE Country Day continues racking up points, yards

FOOTBALL REPORT

Thursday’s scores

Statewide Acadiana 58, Sulphur 25 Baker 62, Morris Jeff 0 Bonnabel 44, Ehret 29 De La Salle 49, Booker T. Washington 18 East Feliciana 50, Central Private 6 Ferriday 58, Madison 0 Franklin 35, Delcambre 0 Grand Lake 35, Elton 0 Higgins 20, East Jefferson 14 Huntington 28, Captain Shreve 21 Jennings 41, South Beauregard 14 Jonesboro-Hodge 36, Montgomery 6 Karr 48, Chalmette 14 Kennedy 61, McMain 0 Madison Prep 32, St. Michael 3 Mangham 55, Rayville 18 Neville 57, West Ouachita 6 Northwest 35, Rayne 14 Opelousas 50, Cecilia 48 Ouachita Christian 51, St. Frederick Catholic 7 Pine 20, Amite 14 Richwood 12, Beekman 6 Westminster Christian 57, Collegiate-BR 0

BY PEYTON DOYLE Contributing writer

Jack Grace, the most prolific passer in the state this season, continued his dominance for Country Day (5-3) on Friday, throwing for 358 yards and five touchdowns in a 56-7 win over Covenant Christian (3-5). Friday’s performance puts Grace at 2,854 yards passing and 40 touchdowns this season. “I’m feeling great,” Grace said. “We had a pretty solid week of practice. I’m gonna enjoy this, but we have the rivalry next week.” Next up for Country Day is a trip to face Newman (61) at 7 p.m. next Friday with the top spot in District 11-2A on the line. “It’s a huge game. It’s a rivalry game,” Cajuns coach Ben Powell said. “You don’t have to get the kids up for Newman/Country Day. It’s a big one. They know what it is.” Against Covenant Christian, Grace sparked the offense on just the third snap from scrimmage, connecting with junior wideout Curtis McAllister for a 50-yard touchdown. After throwing an interception on his second possession, Grace responded with passing touchdowns on three straight drives to close the first quarter with a 28-0 lead. Grace tallied 226 yards passing in the first quarter, with 86 going to McAllister and 59 going to running back Justin Drago. McAllister and Drago each added a receiving touchdown as well, along with Kellen Brewer to close the quarter. “They’re very reliable,” Grace said of his teammates. “Justin, him, Curtis, all the receivers worked

Friday’s scores

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County Day running back Justin Drago, center, runs through the Patrick F. Taylor defense in the first quarter of their game in Metairie on Oct. 4, 2024. Drago had a big game against Covenant Christian on Friday. their ass off and throwing to them is just a blessing.” In the second quarter, the Lions started to cool off the Cajuns offense. An extended offensive drive for Covenant Christian burned half the clock in the quarter, and once Grace got the ball back, he threw an interception in the red zone. After another defensive stand by Country Day, Grace got back on track. On the first play of his next possession, he drifted left before firing a sidearm throw to Preston Snyder on the right side of the field for a 20-yard touchdown. To close the half, Grace led the Cajuns down the field, and Drago finished the drive with a 3-yard touchdown to go up 42-0. The Cajuns defense kept the Lions completely off balance, allowing just 65 yards in the first half.

“New people, new places, learning some new jobs as the year has gone on,” Powell said of his defense’s growth. “We’ve just gotten better and better and focused on the fundamentals, and I think you’ve seen that in the last three or four weeks.” After halftime, Country Day leaned heavily on its running game. On its first possession of the half, Drago took the snaps for the Cajuns, running it himself for 53 yards and a touchdown on the drive. In the fourth, the Lions got their lone score. Quarterback Peyton Clement capped the opening drive of the quarter with a 19-yard touchdown pass to Kylan Johnson to make it 49-7. The Cajuns closed the contest with a 5-yard rushing touchdown from Skylar Johnson.

Statewide Abramson def. Carroll, forfeit Alexandria 27, Ruston 21 Catholic-B.R. 41, Central-B.R. 14 Belle Chasse 42, Discovery 14 Benton 41, Natchitoches Central 35 Block 54, Acadiana Christian 21 Buckeye 42, Plain Dealing 6 C.E. Byrd 28, Evangel Christian Academy 24 Caldwell Parish 38, Oak Grove 34 Cedar Creek 62, Arcadia 6 Central Lafourche 41, Riverdale 0 Church Point 26, Crowley 21 Country Day 56, Covenant Christian Academy 7 Covington 49, Hammond 21 DeQuincy 41, Pickering 0 DeRidder 24, Kinder 20 Delta Charter 42, LaSalle 36, OT Dunham 55, Baton Rouge Episcopal 6 Dutchtown 17, Denham Springs 14 East Beauregard 40, Pine Prairie 6 Ellender 39, Morgan City 6 Erath 37, Abbeville 12 Eunice 40, Mamou 13 Glen Oaks 48, Belaire 12 Glenbrook 44, Lena Northwood 6 Hahnville 13, East St. John 12 Hannan 31, Pearl River 28 Haughton 42, Airline 21 Houma Christian 55, Gueydan 32 Independence 41, St. Thomas Aquinas 6 Iota 55, Ville Platte 0 Iowa 53, Westlake 22 Jeanerette 34, Central Catholic 20 Jena 44, Bunkie 34 Kaplan 57, St. Martinville 7 Kentwood 36, Pointe Coupee Catholic 6 Lafayette Christian Academy 23, Loreauville 6 Lafayette Renaissance 54, Acadiana Renaissance Charter 6 Lake Charles College Prep 42, North Vermilion 0 Landry/Walker 51, Cohen 0 Leesville 62, LaGrange 0 Logansport 50, Ringgold 0 Lutcher 42, Vandebilt Catholic 40 Mandeville 36, Saint Paul’s 29 Mansﬁeld 48, Red River 12 Minden 52, Southwood 13 NDHS 41, Lake Arthur 21 New Iberia Catholic 45, West St. Mary 6 Newman 49, Fisher 7 Newton County Academy, Miss. 28,

Ben’s Ford Christian School 18 North Caddo 35, Magnolia Excellence 8 Northshore 28, Fontainebleau 3 Northside 30, Liberty 20 Prairieville 42, St. Amant 35 Riverside Academy 34, Ascension Catholic 0 Salmen 47, Sumner 6 Shaw 24, Calvary Baptist Academy 7 Shreveport Northwood 44, Bossier 14 South Lafourche 32, South Terrebonne 30 South Plaquemines 24, West St. John 16 Southside 17, St. Thomas More 14 St. Augustine 49, Brother Martin 35 St. Charles Catholic 55, Berwick 0 St. Edmund Catholic 42, Opelousas Catholic 21 St. Helena 44, Northlake Christian 0 St. James 43, Patterson 6 St. John def. Capitol, forfeit St. Mary’s 58, Lakeview 6 Sterlington 48, North Webster 15 Thibodaux 27, H.L. Bourgeois 14 Union Parish 47, D’Arbonne Woods 0 Vermilion Catholic 42, Centerville 14 Vinton 43, Rosepine 26 Walker 27, Live Oak 18 Welsh 43, Basile 0 West Monroe 51, Pineville 0 Westminster Christian (LAF) 55, Hanson Memorial 0 Winnﬁeld 40, Many 30 Zachary 54, Woodlawn (BR) 0

Saturday’s games

District 8-5A West Jefferson vs. Warren Easton at Pan American, 3 p.m. District 9-5A Holy Cross vs. Rummel at Yenni, 2 p.m. District 9-4A Carver vs. McDonogh 35 at Gormley, 2 p.m. District 11-3A Thomas Jefferson vs. Jefferson Rise at Memtsas

Bonnabel 44, John Ehret 29 Team JE BON First Downs 19 24 Yards Rushing 27-147 28-192 Yards Passing 215 347 Passes (C-A-HI) 11-24-2 15-22-1 Punts-avg. 1-41 0-0 Fumbles-lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-yards 13-95 14-125 SCORING SUMMARY John Ehret 0 7 14 8 —29 Bonnabel 7 21 7 9 —44 BON: Elijah White 40 pass from Jayce Romain (Flavio Centeno kick) BON: White 18 run (Centeno kick) BON: Kenyon Harper 17 run (Centeno kick) JE: Darius Lazard 14 pass from Sylas Rood (Caden Landry kick) BON: White 22 pass from Romain (Centeno kick) JE: Dominic Webber 24 run (kick failed) JE: Ahlyja Trim 17 pass from Rood (Rood 2-pt run) BON: White 18 pass from Raheem Williams (Centeno kick) BON: Gerald Honore 77 pass from Romain (kick failed) BON: Centeno 38 ﬁeld goal JE: Lazard 48 pass from Rood (2-pt good)

Shaw 24, Calvary Baptist 7 Team First Downs Yards Rushing Yards Passing

CB 15 68 94

Shaw 12 159 125

Passes (C-A-HI) 16-34-2 6-11-0 Punts-avg. 3-34.8 4-25.5 Fumbles-lost 2-2 1-1 Penalties-yards 7-50 7-65 SCORING SUMMARY Calvary Baptist 0 0 7 0 —7 Shaw 14 3 7 0 —24 SHS: Nasir Parker 62 pass Cinco Shaw (JonCarlos D’Bran kick) SHS: Shaw 1 run (D’Bran kick) SHS: D’Bran 28 FG CBHS: Braylon Huglon 16 pass from Hudson Price (Abraham kick) SHS: Ronnie Miller fumble recovery

Riverside 14, Ascension Catholic 0 Team AC Riverside First Downs 5 18 Yards Rushing 22-6 40-213 Yards Passing 6 71 Passes (C-A-HI) 8-17-2 11-13-0 Punts-avg. 4-45.3 1-50 Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-yards 6-70 5-50 SCORING SUMMARY Ascension Catholic 0 0 0 0 —0 Riverside 7 13 14 0 —34 RHS: Chris Becnel 8 run (Will Rauch kick) RHS: Kenric Johnson 5 run (Rauch kick) RHS: Jake Bell 5 pass from Becnel (pass failed) RHS: Becnel 1 run (Rauch kick) RHS: Becnel 1 run (Rauch kick)

Jesuit 24, John Curtis 8

Team JC Jesuit First Downs 16 18 Yards Rushing 21-128 42-175 Yards Passing 127 94 Passes (C-A-HI) 14-26-2 7-13-0 Punts-avg. 4-25 4-38 Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-yards 7-62 13-115 SCORING SUMMARY John Curtis 0 0 0 8 —8 Jesuit 7 10 0 7 —24 JES: Mani Vandenweghe 6 run (Charlie Corbello kick) JES: Corbello 37 ﬁeld goal JES: Grant LeBouf 31 pass from Sully Sullivan (Corbello kick) JES: Michael Ceurrit 6 run (Corbello kick) JC: Jarvis Stevenson 6 pass from London Padgett (Isaac Hrabovsky 2-pt run) PrepFootballGameStats

Country Day 49, Covenant Christian 7

Team CD CC First Downs 25 9 Yards Rushing 15-100 14-24 Yards Passing 358 89 Passes (C-A-HI) 20-27-2 12-19-1 Punts-avg. n/a n/a Fumbles-lost 1-0 2-1 Penalties-yards 7-80 10-110 SCORING SUMMARY Country Day 28 14 7 7 —49 Covenant Christian 0 0 0 7 —7 CDHS: Curtis McAllister 50 pass from Jack Grace (Jacob Luder kick) CDHS: Justin Drago 25 pass from Grace (Luder kick) CDHS: McAllister 4 pass from Grace (Luder kick) CDHS: Kellen Brewer 25 pass from Grace (Luder kick) CDHS: Preston Snyder 20 pass from Grace (Luder kick) CDHS: Drago 3 run (Luder kick) CDHS: Drago 22 run (Luder kick) CCHS: Kylan Johnson 19 pass from Peyton Clement (Grifﬁn Beebe kick) CDHS: Johnson 5 run (Luder kick)

Mandeville hangs on to beat St. Paul’s in thriller BY JOSEPH HALM Staff writer

Mandeville senior Luke DeMelo had never beaten his former school. The Skippers wide receiver attended St. Paul’s in the eighth grade before spending the past four years at Mandeville. So it was only fitting that when the Skippers needed a big play, he delivered with a 50-yard touchdown catch-and-run with less than a minute to play, turning disappointment into a thrilling 36-29 District 6-5A victory on Friday at Sidney Theriot Stadium. “I knew when he called that play that there had been a hole there all night,” DeMelo said. “I trusted my blockers, and I knew I was going to take it to the house. I’m just happy my coaches trust in me, and I trusted my blockers. When I hit that hole, I knew that nobody was going to catch me.” Mandeville sophomore quarterback Krew Collura, who finished 14-of-21 passing for 196 yards and two TDs, echoed DeMelo’s comments. “Our perimeter blocking is unmatched,” said Collura, who also ran for 121 yards and two TDs on 17 carries. “We have guys who can get the job done on the outside, and Luke (DeMelo) has the speed to take over a game. This is a huge win. It’s a win that we’ve been chasing for a while, so I’m happy the seniors got a win against (St. Paul’s).” Mandeville’s defense held on the final possession as the Skippers moved to 8-0 and 5-0 in district play. Mandeville will travel to play undefeated Northshore (8-0, 5-0) next week. But the journey there was tough as the Skippers needed every second to snap a five-game losing streak to St. Paul’s (4-4, 3-2). Mandeville didn’t throw the ball in the second half until the final drive, but two TD runs by Collura of 50 and 1 yards gave the home team a 28-14 lead with 10:53 left. But St. Paul’s battled back, helped in part by Mandeville miscues. St. Paul’s cut the lead on a 1-yard Adam Connell TD run, then had a chance to tie the game after a high snap was recovered by Christopher Bevolo, setting the Wolves up at the MHS 34. The Wolves used a trick play as QB Patrick Brister (15-of-21 passing, 159 yards) pitched the ball to Connell, who tossed a 32-yard TD pass to Daniel Harty. But the 2-point conversion run was stopped

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Miguel Whitley, left, celebrates with St. Augustine teammate Jace Newman after scoring a touchdown against Brother Martin on Friday at Tad Gormley Stadium.

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FAVORITE OPEN TDY O/U UNDR Pittsburgh 11/2 3 (441/2) at NO at HOUSTON 51/2 101/2 (421/2) Giants Cincinnati 31/2 11/2 (481/2) at BALT Cleveland 3 11/2 (371/2) at TENN at CAR 11/2 21/2 (441/2)Tmp Bay San Fran 41/2 21/2 (491/2) at ATL at NY JETS 21/2 41/2 (391/2) Miami at MINN 3 61/2 (411/2) Indnpls Denver 71/2 41/2 (431/2) at ARI LA Rams 81/2 31/2 (481/2) at LV at DETROIT 11/2 31/2 (541/2) Grn Bay at SEATTLE 3 21/2 (421/2)Kan City

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Thursday’s game

Chicago 30, New England 24

Sunday’s games

Pittsburgh vs. New Orleans in Paris, 8:30 a.m. Cincinnati at Baltimore, noon

Cleveland at Tennessee, noon Indianapolis at Minnesota, noon Miami at N.Y. Jets, noon N.Y. Giants at Houston, noon San Francisco at Atlanta, noon Tampa Bay at Carolina, noon Denver at Arizona, 3:05 p.m. Green Bay at Detroit, 3:25 p.m. L.A. Rams at Las Vegas, 3:25 p.m. Kansas City at Seattle, 7:20 p.m. Open: Buffalo, Jacksonville, L.A. Chargers, Washington

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Sunday, Nov. 1

Arizona at Dallas, noon Atlanta at Tampa Bay, noon Baltimore at Buffalo, noon Cleveland at Pittsburgh, noon Indianapolis at Jacksonville, noon Las Vegas at N.Y. Jets, noon Minnesota at Detroit, noon Tennessee at Cincinnati, noon L.A. Chargers at L.A. Rams, 3:05 p.m. Kansas City at Denver, 3:25 p.m. New England at Miami, 3:25 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 7:20 p.m. Open: Houston, N.Y. Giants, New Orleans, San Francisco

Monday, Nov. 2

Chicago at Seattle, 7:15 p.m.

Late Thursday Chicago 30, New England 24

New England 0 14 7 3 — 24 Chicago 10 10 7 3 — 30 First Quarter Chi—FG Santos 43, 9:53. Chi—Swift 4 run (Santos kick), 1:38. Second Quarter NE—Maye 7 run (Borregales kick), 11:33. Chi—FG Santos 31, 7:04. Chi—Burden 24 pass from C.Williams (Santos kick), :14. NE—R.Stevenson 48 pass from Maye (Borregales kick), :00. Third Quarter Chi—Loveland 12 pass from C.Williams (Santos kick), 9:41. NE—Raridon 30 pass from Maye (Borregales kick), 3:46. Fourth Quarter Chi—FG Santos 58, 1:34. NE—FG Borregales 47, :37. A—60,520. NE Chi First downs 20 21 Total Net Yards 380 405 Rushes-yards 17-70 30-116 Passing 310 289 Punt Returns 1-19 1-7 Kickoff Returns 6-149 3-92 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 24-31-1 22-33-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-11 3-19 Punts 4-45.0 2-53.5 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 10-71 9-69 Time of Possession 27:36 32:24 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—New England, Maye 4-26, Stevenson 6-22, Kiner 4-13, Henderson 3-9. Chicago, Swift 2278, Williams 5-18, R.Johnson 2-13, Burden 1-7. PASSING—New England, Maye 24-311-321. Chicago, Williams 22-33-0-308. RECEIVING—New England, Henry 7-71, Stevenson 5-93, Raridon 3-56, A.Brown 3-48, Douglas 3-23, Henderson 2-14, Chism 1-16. Chicago, Loveland 7-69, Burden 4-130, Odunze 4-69, Swift 4-12, Kmet 3-28. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Chicago, Santos 53.

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Saturday’s games

Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Brooklyn at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m. San Antonio at Dallas, 7 p.m. Washington at Chicago, 7 p.m. Houston at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. New Orleans at Denver, 8 p.m. Golden State at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

WNBA Finals (x-if necessary); (Best-of-7) Atlanta 2, Golden State 1 Oct. 17: Golden State 68, Atlanta 64 Oct. 19: Atlanta 79, Golden State 65 Oct. 21: Atlanta 97, Golden State 71 Saturday: Golden State at Atlanta, noon Monday: Atlanta at Golden State, 7 p.m. x-Thursday: Golden St. at Atlanta, TBA x-Saturday, Oct. 31: Atlanta at Golden St., TBA

MLB World Series glance Best-of-7; x-if necessary; All games at 7 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Tampa Bay

Friday: Game 1: Tampa Bay at Milwaukee, n Saturday: Game 2: Tampa Bay at Milwaukee Monday: Game 3: Milwaukee at Tampa Bay Tuesday: Game 4: Milwaukee at Tampa Bay x-Wednesday, Oct. 28: Game 5: Milwaukee at Tampa Bay x-Friday, Oct. 30: Game 6: Tampa Bay at Milwaukee x-Saturday, Oct. 31: Game 7: Tampa Bay at Milwaukee

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Reinstated RHP Brandon Woodruff from the 60-day IL. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Activated LHP Garrett Cleavinger.

BASKETBALL Women’s National Basketball Association INDIANA FEVER — Announced Kelly Krauskopf stepped down as president.

FOOTBALL National Football League

NFL — Reduced Buffalo S Sam Franklin’s one-game suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct to a ﬁne. ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed TE Shawn Bowman to the practice squad. CHICAGO BEARS — Assigned LB Buddy Johnson and RB Zavier Scott to the practice squad. Placed TE Cole Kmet on injured reserve. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed WR Andrew Armstrong from the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Released RB DeeJay Dallas. Signed OLB Jihad Ward to the practice squad. Released OL Tristan Leigh from the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Assigned LB Benton Whitley and OL Xavier Newman-Johnson to the practice squad. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Released DL Ogbo Okoronkwo. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released CB Trevon Diggs.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Recalled D Travis Mitchell from San Diego (AHL). COLORADO AVALANCHE — Recalled F Taylor Makar from Colorado (AHL). NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Acquired G Connor Hellebuyck from Winnipeg in exchange for Fs Dawson Mercer, Alexander Command and Nick Bjugstad, G Nicolas Daws, a 2029 second-round pick and a 2027 seventh-round pick. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Recalled Ds Cole McWard and Dakota Mermis from Toronto (AHL). WINNIPEG JETS — Placed F Vlad Namestnikov on injured reserve. Loaned F Brayden Yager to Manitoba (AHL).

SATURDAY’S STATE COLLEGE FOOTBALL CAPSULES Southern at Texas Southern WHEN: 2 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Reliant Stadium (72,220), Houston ONLINE: SWAC TV RECORDS: Southern 3-4, 1-2 SWAC; Texas Southern 1-5, 0-3) LATEST LINE: Southern by 11/2 (561/2) SERIES: Southern leads 51-23-4 LAST MEETING: Texas Southern won 35-30 in 2025. NOTES: The game features a coaching matchup of former NFL stars (Cris Dishman at TSU and Marshall Faulk at SU). ... The Tigers are on a ﬁve-game losing skid, including an upset loss to Mississippi Valley and an OT loss to Alcorn State. ... It’s homecoming for the Tigers, who are playing at Reliant Stadium because of scheduling conﬂicts at their usual home of Shell Energy Stadium. ... Like the Tigers are coming off an open date after getting biggest win of the season on Oct. 10 with a 28-14 victory at Prairie View. ... Texas Southern is allowing 44.3 points and 451.3 yards per game. ... Southern has averaged 18.3 ppg in SWAC play.

Nicholls State at Northwestern State

WHEN: 2 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Turpin Stadium (15,971), Natchitoches ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: Nicholls 2-5, 1-3 Southland; NW State 0-7, 0-4 LATEST LINE: Nicholls by 101/2 (541/2) SERIES: NW State leads 23-20 LAST MEETING: Nicholls won 26-21 in 2025. NOTES: Nicholls is averaging just 14 points and 288.1 yards per game. The Colonels have been shut out twice and scored two points in another loss. ... The Demons, who are celebrating homecoming, are searching for their ﬁrst win of the season after coming close last week against McNeese (24-21 loss). ... Demons QB Zach Wilke has thrown for 1,050 yards and nine TDs with three interceptions this season. ... Nicholls has won eight of the past nine meetings in the matchup known as the Battle for the NSU Trophy.

UL-Monroe at Troy WHEN: 3 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Veterans Memorial Stadium (30, 470), Troy, Ala. ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: UL-Monroe 0-6, 0-2 Sun Belt; Troy 3-3, 1-1 LATEST LINE: ULM by 121/2 (501/2) SERIES: Troy leads 13-9-1 LAST MEETING: Troy won 37-14 in 2025 NOTES: The Warhawks are coming off a 24-0 loss to Louisiana Tech. ... This ﬁgures to be a tough matchup for the ULM defense, which allows 229.7 yards rushing per game while the Trojans offense relies on a run game that averages 204.7 yards per game. ... All of Troy’s wins have come at home.

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Friday’s games

Carolina at Green Bay, 7:15 p.m.

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Old Dominion at Louisiana Tech WHEN: 4 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Joe Aillet Stadium (28, 562), Ruston ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: ODU 2-5, 1-3 Sun Belt; Tech 4-2, 2-0 LATEST LINE: Tech by 131/2 (451/2) SERIES: ODU leads 2-0 LAST MEETING: ODU won 23-20 in 2021. NOTES: Since the start of 2025, Tech has recorded nine multi-interception games, tying it with Notre Dame for the most in college football over that period. ... The Monarchs lead the Sun Belt in opponent third-down conversion percentage, limiting teams to 32.1%. ... ODU is coming off a 23-15 loss to Georgia Southern. ... ODU is 7-1 all-time against Sun Belt West opponents since joining the league in 2022. ODU has won six straight games against SBC West opponents. ... The Bulldogs are riding a three-game win streak.

UL at Southern Miss WHEN: 4 p.m. Saturday WHERE: M.M. Roberts Stadium (36,000), Hattiesburg, Mississippi ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: UL 5-2, 2-1 Sun Belt; USM 1-5, 0-2 LATEST LINE: UL by 91/2 (521/2) SERIES: USM leads 43-12-1 LAST MEETING: USM won 22-10 in 2025. NOTES: The Cajuns, coming off a 33-6 win over Troy, can secure bowl eligibility with a win. ... The Golden Eagles are looking to snap a ﬁve-game losing streak. ... UL has an open date next week. ... The Cajuns average 200 yards rushing per game. ... Southern Miss ranks 11th in the SBC on offense (24.2 ppg) and 13th on defense (32.7.)

Southeastern at Stephen F. Austin WHEN: 5 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Homer Bryce Stadium (14.575), Nacogdoches, Texas ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: SLU 4-3, 2-2 Southland; SFA 7-0, 4-0 LATEST LINE: SFA by 201/2 (541/2) SERIES: SFA leads 11-10-1 LAST MEETING: SLU won 47-30 in 2019. NOTES: A victory for No. 23 Southeastern would boost its at-large postseason résumé, coming off a 34-31 upset over then-No. 10 Lamar. ... No. 2 SFA is looking for its ﬁrst 8-0 start in program history. The Lumberjacks, coming off a 56-0 thrashing of Nicholls, has won 17 consecutive regular-season games. ... Lions safety Carter Hanberry leads the SLU defense with 60 tackles. ... The Lumberjacks are the highest-ranked opponent Southeastern has faced in a Southland Conference game.

Saints K Carlson arrives, but new baby hasn’t yet BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

VERSAILLES, France — Daniel Carlson landed in Paris at 7:45 a.m. Friday to join the New Orleans Saints after the kicker stayed back in the United States because his wife was expecting their fourth child. But Carlson also shared a notable update: The baby hasn’t been born yet. “There were a couple of health things, but everything’s good,” he said. “We’re very happy about that.” The kicker said Friday that he and his wife hope to wait out the birth until the team’s bye week, which follows Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Carlson said he got the “green light” from their doctor to join the Saints. But he acknowledged he is risking missing the child’s birth. “We’re praying really hard that that’s not the case,” Carlson said. “But we had the green light from the doctor and everybody’s healthy and everything, so that’s the main thing. But yeah, obviously trying to balance the commitment to football and the priority of family as well. “We’ve been doing that well and my wife is a champ. This is our fourth kid, so we’ve gone through this a couple times. We’ve been very blessed. Everybody’s healthy. Everybody’s good.” If Carlson has to miss the game, the Saints could elevate kicker Charlie Smyth from the practice squad.

STAFF PHOTO BY DAVID GRUNFELD

New Orleans Saints kicker Daniel Carlson, center, reacts after missing an extra point during a game against the Minnesota Vikings on Oct. 11 at Caesars Superdome.

SAINTS NOTEBOOK

The Saints listed Ruiz as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers after the offensive lineman returned to practice Friday from a knee injury. Ruiz’s participation status was still listed as limited, which could lead the Saints to roll with rookie Jeremiah Wright this weekend. But Ruiz’s return was promising given it looked like he suffered a serious knee injury in last weekend’s win over the Giants. “We’ll just see how he responds and how he goes from there,” coach Kellen Moore said. The Saints also listed defensive lineman Nathan Shepherd as questionable with an illness. If Shepherd is out, he’ll miss his third straight game with the ailment. Moore declined to provide specifics on Shepherd’s situation, though he noted he was downgraded to a DNP on Friday after practicing earlier this week. “Other than that, everyRuiz upgrade one is available and good to Saints guard Cesar Ruiz go,” Moore said. missed the first two days of practice this week, but he Steelers arrive may have a chance to play The Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL’s first-ever game have arrived in Paris. in Paris. If quarterback Aaron Rodg-

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Rebels shut out Ascension Catholic in state title rematch

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

Staff writer

The first five drives for St. Augustine ended the same way — with a touchdown. All were touchdown passes from Jaelle Noble. The star quarterback sparked the Purple Knights to an early 21-point lead on Brother Martin in a 49-35 victory Friday at Tad Gormley Stadium. St. Augustine (8-0, 5-0 District 9-5A) won despite 16 penalties for 144 yards. Two St. Augustine drives stalled because of penalties, giving Brother Martin two chances to make it a one-score game. St. Augustine snuffed out the final chance with Justin Betts’ sack on third down and Vincent Batiste’s stop in the backfield on fourth down. The win kept St. Augustine tied with Edna Karr atop the District 9-5A standings as the two undefeated teams prepare for next week’s rematch of last season’s Division I select state final. Karr is a two-time reigning state champion with a 35-game winning streak. St. Augustine’s only two losses the last two seasons came against Karr. “We kind of made them have to score offensively to keep up,” St. Augustine coach Robert Valdez said about his team’s fast start on offense. “We set the pace offensively early, and I think that we were able to continue pressing.” Noble completed 15 of 21 passes for 268 yards and five touchdowns, two each to Ray’Quan Williams and Miguel Whitley. Jace Newman also caught a touchdown pass. After halftime, St. Augustine kept its distance from Brother Martin with two rushing touchdowns from Khlil Lewis. Patrick Robinson led the St. Augustine rushing attack with 12 carries for 108 yards. Lewis ran 10 times for 79 yards. For Brother Martin (5-3, 3-3), Luca Acani ran for two touchdowns, five-star wideout Easton Royal caught a touchdown pass from Justin Morgan, and Rico Baron returned a kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown. Royal, a Florida commitment, had seven receptions for 145

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St. Augustine player Jace Newman scores a touchdown against Brother Martin at Tad Gormley Stadium on Friday. St. Augustine handled Brother Martin 49-35. yards. St. Augustine scored its first touchdown on the second play from scrimmage. Noble hit Williams in stride for a 45-yard touchdown pass as he ran clear of a Brother Martin defender in the middle of the field. The Tulane commitment later scored on a 41-yard touchdown pass. He caught four passes for 112 yards. Whitley’s two touchdown receptions came with a defender in close coverage. The Ole Miss commitment reached around a defender to corral the ball with his left arm for his first touchdown. He caught six passes for 61 yards. Brother Martin trailed 21-0 before scoring its first points. Baron broke multiple tackles as he ran 89 yards for a kickoff return touchdown. Asconi’s 9-yard touchdown run capped a 10-play drive in the second quarter. Contact Christopher Dabe at cdabe@theadvocate.com

St. Augustine quarterback Jaelle Noble jumps over Brother Martin defender Brady McCluskey during St. Augustine’s victory at Tad Gormley Stadium on Friday night.

Jesuit shuts down John Curtis for win BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

John Curtis showed signs of life against Jesuit after Patriots wide receiver Jarvis Stevenson scored a late touchdown, but those were the only points that the Blue Jays allowed. Trailing by 16 points after Stevenson’s touchdown, Curtis quarterback London Padgett attempted a downﬁeld pass to Stevenson with less than ﬁve minutes to go that was broken up by multiple Jesuit defenders to all but seal the win for the Blue Jays. Jesuit held strong the rest of the way in a 24-8 district win over Curtis on Friday at Strawberry Stadium in Hammond. “I thought we did a great job in the trenches and tackling in space,” Jesuit coach Ryan Ma-

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nale said. “Our kids prepared, but more than that our player leadership led. That’s a reflection of our seniors and our upperclassmen in our program.” Jesuit put together an eightplay scoring drive on its ﬁrst possession of the game. The drive was capped with a 6-yard touchdown run by junior quarterback Mani Vandenweghe. Vandenweghe finished with 60 yards rushing on 12 carries while operating as part of a twoquarterback system for Jesuit alongside junior Sully Sullivan, who completed 7 of 13 passes for 94 yards and a touchdown. Jesuit took a 10-point lead after a 37-yard ﬁeld goal by sophomore Charlie Corbello, and Blue Jays senior safety Jack Maguire intercepted Padgett less than a minute later on a tipped pass to

give his team the ball back. “We were able to mix up some formations,” Manale said. “We had to be able to stop (the Curtis) offense, and our guys were able to make plays. Hats off to our players preparing.” Jesuit took advantage of the turnover and quickly scored again after Sullivan found wide receiver Grant LeBeouf in the end zone for a 31-yard touchdown pass. A junior, LeBeouf leaped up for a contested catch over multiple Curtis defenders. Curtis nearly scored before the end of the first half, but Jesuit went into halftime with a 17-0 lead after a missed field goal by Patriots kicker Cole Schmidt from 30 yards out. “We just had a very poor first half,” John Curtis coach J.T. Curtis said. “(Jesuit) executed very

well. We’ve just got to do a better job of being able to get in the ballgame much earlier.” Jesuit junior Michael Cerruti was the Blue Jays’ leading rusher. He ﬁnished with 70 yards on 14 carries, including a touchdown from 6 yards out in the fourth quarter to take a 24-0 lead. Padgett completed 14 of 25 passes for 127 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions while rushing for 78 yards on nine carries. Stevenson caught seven passes for 71 yards. Jesuit improved to 6-2 overall and 3-2 in District 9-5A after Friday’s win. The Blue Jays will continue district play next Friday against Rummel. John Curtis (2-6, 0-5) will look to snap a ﬁve-game losing skid in a district matchup next Saturday against Holy Cross.

Riverside and Ascension Catholic faced off Friday night at Mickey Roussel Field in a rematch of last year’s Division IV select state championship game. Now, as District 10-1A foes, the top two ranked teams in the Division IV select power rankings looked to take a stranglehold in the district standings and set themselves up for a strong finish with two weeks left in the regular season after Friday. The Rebels did just that by controlling both lines of scrimmage and used a stingy defense and powerful running game to down the Bulldogs 34-0. “I think we came out and had it on our mind,” Riverside coach Lee Roussel said. “I thought we played a physical brand of football in all three phases of the game. You know in pregame that you’ve got a feel on your team. I could see that we had the right vibe and right attitude.” After punting on its first possession, Riverside (7-1, 3-0) drove 25 yards in five plays before Jake Becnel capped the scoring march with an 8-yard touchdown run for a 7-0 lead with 4:43 left in the opening quarter. The Rebels offense worked on a short field after defensive end Justin Hall sacked Ascension Catholic quarterback Greg Fernandez on fourth down. The Rebels scored two more touchdowns to close out the first half. Kenric Johnson crossed the goal line from 5 yards out to take a 14-0 lead to start the second quarter, and Becnel found tight end Jake Bell alone in the back of the end zone for a 20-0 lead with 6:44 left before intermission. Ascension Catholic (7-1, 2-1) did not move the chains and pick up a first down until the halfway mark of the second quarter. The Bulldogs had 66 yards of total offense, with six of those yards on the ground. Cole Jacob and Johnson each nabbed an interception off Fernandez, and the Rebels had five sacks. Hall had three sacks and four tackles for loss. “(Hall) works really hard at practice,” said Johnson, who had 133 yards rushing and a touchdown on 21 attempts and added 55 yards through the air. “He leads the defense and is the voice of the defense. He just comes out with energy, and that’s where we get it from.” Becnel had three rushing touchdowns and a passing touchdown in the contest. The junior had a pair of 1-yard scoring plunges in the second half to provide the final margin for the Rebels. Riverside had 213 yards rushing and finished with 284 yards of total offense and 18 first downs. Fernandez led the Bulldogs with 60 yards passing with two interceptions. No ball carrier had more than 3 yards on the ground. Riverside will face CatholicPointe Coupee and West St. John to conclude the regular season. Johnson said Friday’s win sets his team up well for the stretch run and the playoffs. “This was the No. 1 team in the rankings,” he said. “We would get all our playoff games at home, and I’m ready for that.”

Shaw defense stiﬂing again to down Calvary Baptist BY DARRELL WILLIAMS Contributing writer

Shaw played one great half of offense and one great half of defense on Friday night against Calvary Baptist, according to coach Hank Tierney. It added up to 24-7 victory during homecoming at Joe Zimmerman Stadium. Tierney has said the Shaw offense needs a little fine-tuning, but the defense continues to dominate. The Eagles totally stifled Calvary Baptist’s running game, holding the Cavaliers to 68 yards rushing. “(Calvary Baptist) came in averaging 60 points a game,” said Tierney, who last week moved into fifth place in victories in Louisiana

prep history with 346. “They run the ball well, they throw it well. But the way to beat a good offensive team is to run the ball and play good defense. We ran the ball well in the ﬁrst half, and the defense was great again.” Calvary Baptist (7-1), the No. 1 team in Class 2A, entered the game averaging 57.7 points per game this season. “We do average a lot of points, but we hadn’t played a defense like (Shaw’s),” Cavaliers coach Rodney Guin said. “We needed this game. Our offense hadn’t played the second half all season.” But two interceptions and two fumbles, and an inability to generate any consistent offense, did in the Cavaliers.

Cavalry Baptist’s lone score came on a 16-yard touchdown pass from Hudson Price to wideout Braylan Huglon at 9:01 of the third quarter. That came after the Eagles (7-1) had built a 17-0 lead. The Shaw defense then made amends. The Eagles were forced to punt, but Calvary Baptist got the ball at its 5. On third-and-8, Eagles linebacker Ethan Lentz sacked Price in the end zone and he fumbled. The ball was recovered by linebacker Ronnie Miller for a touchdown. “That was a big moment in the game,” Guin said. “We had a chance to get back in the game, and we didn’t get it done. I told the kids that’s on everybody — coaches, players.”

Shaw took control early behind its defense. After forcing a turnover on downs at the Eagles’ 38, Shaw executed a half-back option pass, with “Cinco” Shaw ﬁnding receiver Tyre Lowe 15 yards behind the Cavaliers defense for a 62-yard touchdown four minutes into the game. Cornerback Jai Johnson then intercepted a pass two downs later at the Shaw 48, setting the Eagles up for another score. Five plays later, on third-and-8, “Red” Shaw and sophomore wide receiver Brandon Girod combined on a 39yard pass play to the Cavaliers 1. “Cinco” Shaw scored on the next play for a 14-0 lead at 3:56 of the ﬁrst quarter. Kicker JonCarlos D’bran kicked

a 28-yard field goal at 9:08 of the second quarter after the Eagles got the ball at their 45 via a punt. On the first play, “Red” Shaw took off around right end for a 45-yard run to the Cavalry Baptist 10. D’bran’s kick came four plays later. The Eagles defense, with nine returnees from last year’s state runner-up team, held the Cavaliers to 26 yards rushing and 48 passing in the first half. Baptist managed four first downs, with two coming on the Cavaliers’ last possession of the half. Shaw returns to District 10-4A play on next Friday at Kenner Discovery before ending the season against Young Audiences on Nov. 6.

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

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The cooler weather we have been looking for since September has finally arrived. Mild days and cool nights tell us that fall is here, and that affects what we plant in our gardens. Now is the time to plant coolseason bedding plants in the flower garden. These will provide color from fall until next April or May. If your warm-season bedding plants still look good, it’s fine to leave them in place. But by late November or early December, it will be time to remove and replace them. There is no hurry to plant coolseason bedding plants, but fall plant-

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ing is best, as it provides the best spring display. You can plant as late as March, but you get more bang for your buck this time of year, getting to enjoy the ﬂowers over a longer period.

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Ornamental peppers are attractive and edible BY DAN GILL

Contributing writer Are ornamental peppers edible? I bought them to decorate my porch with their colorful peppers, but I’m wondering if they could be eaten. — Gina Ornamental peppers may be Garden eaten. They are the same species of pepper (Capsicum annuadvice um) that provides us with edible hot and sweet peppers. The only difference between ornamental peppers and garden peppers is appearance. Ornamental peppers have been bred and selected for especially colorful fruit that is displayed prominently. The fruit may be purple, lavender, red, yellow or orange, often changing colors as it ripens. Some ornamental peppers even have attractive foliage that is variegated or purple. Like all peppers, the fruit of ornamental peppers can be harvested at any stage of ripeness. When cooking with them, keep in mind that they are ﬁery hot. They make an attractive and colorful vinegar pepper sauce. Because of their heat, do not let young children handle these peppers. Ornamental peppers have become increasingly popular for fall decorating. Place them

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Ornamental peppers, which are edible, have been bred and selected for especially colorful fruit that is displayed prominently. The fruit may be purple, lavender, red, yellow or orange, often changing colors as it ripens.

in sunny locations on porches and patios and water regularly as needed. If you protect them from freezes (bring them inside on nights when temperatures drop below 32 degrees), they will survive and continue to produce fruit

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GARDEN TIPS IRIS SALE: Now is a great time to plant rhizomes of Louisiana irises for bloom next spring. The Greater New Orleans Iris Society will hold a Louisiana iris rhizome sale from 9 a.m. to noon (or sellout) Saturday at Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road. SEED FOR SUCCESS: You can direct seed poppies (Shirley, California, bread seed, Iceland), larkspur, calendula, alyssum, bachelor’s button and Virginia stock now. BEAUTIFUL BULBS: November through early December is the time to plant spring flowering bulbs, such as allium, anemone, calla lily*, crocus, daffodil*, Dutch iris*, grape hyacinth, leucojum*, lilies* (Easter lily, Asiatic lily and others), narcissus*, ornithogalum*, Peruvian scilla*, ranunculus, Spanish bluebell*, sparaxis and spring star flower* (those marked * will generally rebloom

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Among the cool-season bedding plants, some of the most beautiful and reliable belong to the genus Dianthus. The dianthuses we grow in our gardens are varieties of several species and hybrids, and they range in size from 6 to 24 inches tall. The foliage is generally narrow and may be a rich green or have a bluish cast to it. The flowers are typically shades of burgundy, red, rose, pink, purple and white, and they may have patterns of more than one color. The petals have jagged edges that look like they were cut by pinking shears. This is why we also call these beautiful plants “pinks.” Other common names include sweet William and carnation. Full to part sun produces the best flowering in all types of dianthuses. Dianthuses bloom over a long season. When you plant blooming plants in the fall, expect flowers through winter followed by a huge spring display. Be sure to plant them in beds with excellent drainage and a generous amount of compost.

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Varieties of the Amazon dianthus series are singled out for their characteristics and outstanding landscape performance. Fragrant and very attractive to bees and butterflies, they are among the most colorful dianthuses. Taller-growing fragrant types include varieties of Dianthus plumarius such as Sonata, Bouquet and Loveliness. The petals have lacy, frilly edges that are especially beautiful.

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Dianthuses produce a sweet, spicy fragrance often compared to cloves. The scent is highly variable among different types. Smell the ﬂowers during your next nursery visit. Popular among ﬂorists, carnations (Dianthus caryophyllus) are well known for their fragrance. Although not commonly grown here, carnations can be planted in the fall and grown as cool-season annuals. The common bedding dianthuses are generally varieties of Dianthus chinensis, D. deltoides and hybrids. Telstar, Dash, Parfait and Ideal dianthuses are low-growing types that come in many colors and produce a light scent.

The taller-growing Jolt and Amazon series dianthuses are an excellent choice. As LSU AgCenter Louisiana Super Plants selections, these varieties have been singled out for their superior characteristics and outstanding landscape performance. Fragrant and very attractive to bees and butterﬂies, they are among the most colorful dianthuses. The Amazon and Jolt dianthus series were created by breeding together Dianthus chinensis (Chinese dianthus or pinks) and Dianthus barbatus (sweet William). This is called an interspeciﬁc hybrid. The results are nothing short of outstanding. Amazon and

Jolt dianthuses combine the large, showy flower heads of sweet William with the long blooming season and flower production of Chinese pinks. The foliage is a deep green, and the narrow leaves form a mound at the base. Even out of bloom, the foliage provides a verdant color in the winter landscape. When the plants bloom, the stocky flower stalks, clothed in narrow green foliage, rise above the plant. Amazon dianthus flower stalks grow about 2 feet above the basal growth. At 16 to 18 inches tall, Jolt dianthus is more compact but blooms in a similar fashion. There are three colors in the Amazon dianthus series: Amazon Neon Purple, Amazon Neon Cherry and Amazon Rose Magic. Jolt dianthus comes in four colors: Jolt Pink, Jolt Pink Magic, Jolt Cherry and Jolt Purple. The flowers of Rose

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Continued from page 5 next summer. We are just completing the installation of a new pool and are ready to plant some tropical landscaping. I’ve heard you say fall is a good time to plant trees — does this also apply to palm trees? What type of palm trees are the hardiest, and which would you recommend? — Henry The ideal planting season for hardy trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers is November through February. But this just applies to hardy plants that are reliably hardy here and not bothered by winter freezes. They establish more easily and reliably during the cool season. Fall is not a good time to plant tropical plants and palms. They are prone to damage by subfreezing temperatures. Palms (and other tropical plants) are best planted from April or May to August. The August cutoff date is because the palms need time to develop root growth and establish before winter. Palms and tropical plants planted late are less cold tolerant during signiﬁcant freezes. Among the hardiest palms are cabbage palms (Sabal palmetto) and windmill palms (Trachycarpus fortunei), and these look nice around pools as the heads are not so large. Queen palms (Syagrus romanzofﬁana) and pygmy date

DIANTHUSES Continued from page 6

Magic and Pink Magic open white, then turn pink and rose. If planted now, they will bloom through the fall, intermittently during the winter, and then put on a trafﬁc-stopping display of colorful ﬂowers from late February or March through late May or early June.

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Canna plants can be left alone for winter. Hard freezes will kill back the plants, at which point they can be cut down to the ground. palms (Phoenix roebelenii) look great around pools but are less hardy and will be damaged or killed by temperatures below 20 degrees. I’d recommend you go ahead and install the hardy trees, shrubs, ground covers and perennials that you intend to use in the landscape design this fall. Remember, hardy, evergreen plants will keep the pool area looking more attractive over the winter when tropical plants don’t look their best. A balance is important, but wait until April or May of next year to plant tropicals. How should I handle cannas over the winter? Can I dig up, separate and replant them in another location? — Larry Lemarie

With excellent heat tolerance, they generally bloom well into early summer. Jolt dianthus was especially heat tolerant in bedding plant trials done at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station. During the flowering period, you should remove old flower stalks. Removing faded flowers is called deadheading, which keeps your plants looking fresh and attractive while encouraging them to continue blooming.

You may leave them alone at this point. During the winter, hard freezes will kill back the foliage. When that happens, you may cut them down to the ground. Be sure the rhizomes are mulched a few inches deep to help insulate them from the cold. In the spring, around March, you may dig up the rhizomes, divide them and replant them in new locations. Dan Gill is a retired consumer horticulture specialist with the LSU AgCenter. He hosts the “Garden Show” on WWLAM Saturdays at 9 a.m. Email gardening questions to gnogardening@agcenter.lsu. edu.

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Jolt dianthus was especially heat tolerant in bedding plant trials done at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station.

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Decor ideas to quiet your home’s visual ‘noise’ Is your house too loud? This question may sound odd, but think about it for a minute. I’m not referring to the literal noise within your home or the horriﬁc sound of string trimmers and blowers from the crew attacking your next-door neighbor’s yard. Instead, I’m referring to the visual “noise” that can be hushed to create a peaceful home with comfort and beauty — and isn’t that what we all want? The new book “House Hushing: The Simple Method to Declutter and Decorate for a More Peaceful Home” details how to accomplish this. Author Myquillyn Smith developed a fairly simple method for creating a personality-driven home that is not chock-full. Yes, some of us love stuff, and Smith acknowledges ﬁnding joy in a loaded house. She also explains that we all have different thresholds for how much stuff is enough, and you must determine yours. A clean, simple environment is great for some, but it may lack the visual stimulation craved by others. The layered interior may drive the minimalist up the cluttered gallery wall.

Getting started The ﬁrst step is to “declutter backward” by considering the use and ﬂow of the room. Remove a few things to determine if they are necessary. Two days will allow you to experience the hushed space and get over the shock of living with less. After eliminating some small pieces of furniture, ask yourself if you miss them. Were they essential to the room’s function, or did they land there accidentally? Often, rearranging pieces allows you to focus on the room’s primary needs. A more deliberate placement of furniture may result in better balance, allowing you to move through the space effortlessly.

A comfortable home means finding the sweet spot between cluttered and bare where there are enough elements that the room is interesting without being demanding.

Louis Aubert Decorate quietly There is a vast difference between empty and cluttered. The room with very few objects and little personality feels bare. Find the sweet spot where there are enough elements that the room is interesting without being demanding. A comfortable home is the goal. One that is cozy, not crammed. Minimalism pares the house down to the essentials. It can look great in a glossy magazine but is not how most of us want to live. The interior that does not allow for a coffee mug to be left on the counter or a book on a tabletop is shouting at you to get your act together. Time to hush that house.

Personality is important Above all, your home is an expression of those who live there. It should reflect your design preferences and contain things that matter to you. A great example is kid art. Drawings, watercolors and clay creations add tremendous personality to an interior. In one home, a collection of fired clay animals, including dogs, cats and an alligator, was placed on a mantel below a portrait of the family’s young children. The artwork’s colors were reflected in the menagerie the children created. This combination read as a single piece, not as clutter. It whispered family.

Seasons change This brings us to the bonus of the hushed house: There is now space for change. This may come in the form of incorporating objects related to your

STAFF FILE PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER latest interest or rotating seasonal additions. You need not go as far as our Victorian predecessors by removing heavy window coverings, replacing rugs with straw mats and covering all of the upholstered furniture with muslin slipcovers as practiced at the Gallier House. Although I have found that removing a few objects during the summer months does make for a lighter look and easier housekeeping. While allowing breathing room, house hushing also makes space for holiday decorations. The side table that no longer groans under the weight of too many miscellaneous objects can now host a bowl of mini pumpkins and gourds. Later, that bowl may reflect the changing season when filled with vintage Christmas ornaments. Soon after, Mardi Gras decorations may hold pride of place on that same tabletop before being replaced by a vase of spring blooms. Living plants or a few cut flowers bring life into the home. This is a great example of house

hushing as it provides a light touch that reﬂects the time of year.

Something for everyone No design trend or theory is for everyone. There is no “one size ﬁts all” in the world of interior design, and there should not be. Your home should always reﬂect you. House hushing is a method for creating a space that is both organized and pleasing to the eye. One that is comfortable and, above all else, a place you want to be. Louis J. Aubert is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers and an avid preservationist. Some of his most visible New Orleans projects include making interior color selections for Gallier Hall, Trinity Episcopal Church and the Louisiana Supreme Court Royal Street Courthouse, and both interior and exterior selections for St. Stephen’s Basilica. Contact him at mrcolourneworleans@gmail.com.

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INSIDE INFO Jefferson Tree School registration is open

Registration for the annual Friends of Jefferson the Beautiful seminar is open. Tree School on Thursday at the Jefferson Performing Arts Center in Metairie is open to community tree enthusiasts and working professionals such as arborists, landscape architects and other professionals to earn continuing education hours while learning from leaders in the ﬁeld. Professional attendees are welcome at no cost, FILE PHOTO BY SHERRI MILLER and community members can attend for $10. A soaring tree welcomes guests Speakers include Skip Kininto the foyer at a stop on the caid, Beau Brodbeck, James Brother Martin Holiday Home Komen, Dana Brown, Lynn Tour. Dupont, Michael Reid and Amanda Rivera. Visit friendsofjeffersontheincluding: n Guided farm tours, mubeautiful.org. sical performances, yoga classes, kids’ activities, health screenings, food giveaways and an herbal mocktail class. Six volunteer work projects The Preservation Resource ranging from reviving a comCenter’s annual Design Lunmunity garden and planting cheon will feature a trio of trees and seeds to making a women Nov. 4 at 11:30 a.m. at DIY compost tumbler. the Audubon Tea Room, 6500 n A native plant educator Magazine St. Leontine Linens founder Jane will lead a guided walking tour Scott Hodges, designer Charto multiple sites. n Grounds Krewe is hosting lotte Moss and Flower magazine founder and editor Margot a volunteer meetup at Urban South Brewery to make ecoShaw will discuss a variety of design topics, from inspiration friendly parade throws and seed bombs.A community bike and traditions to personal stories. Each has published works in their various specialties. Tickets, including lunch by Dickie Brennan & Co. Catering, start at $165. Visit prcno.org.

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Garden & Farm Festival to debut in November A new type of festival is planned in the Crescent City the weekend before Thanksgiving, with a focus on farms and gardens. The New Orleans Garden & Farm Festival, Nov. 21, will be a citywide event, according to organizers, with an interactive Google map to show the locations of participating gardens. More than 50 growers and organizations are hosting events,

ride to various locations. The inaugural festival is an initiative of the St. Malo Outpost & Healing Garden, Eat Local, the New Orleans Food Policy Council, Imbue Farm, Sprout, the City Planning Commission’s Urban Agriculture Program and the New Orleans Health & Human Services Department. For information, visit nogardenandfarmfestival.org.

Brother Martin home tour rings in season Ho, ho, hold it: it’s time for Holiday Home Tours, and Brother Martin High School will feature homes in the Metairie Club Estates section of the city Dec. 5. The Ladies of the Shield Endowment and the school are the beneﬁciaries of the tour that will run from noon to 3 p.m., with parking and courtesy shuttles at Celebration Church, 2001 Airline Drive, in Metairie. A patron’s party will begin at 10:30 a.m. at 6 Forrest Court, with holiday noshing and members of the Crusader Band providing seasonal tunes. Tickets for the tour start at $40, $75 for the patron party. Visit brothermartin.com for information.

Volunteer projects abound at City Park A variety of cleanup days

and initiatives are on tap at City Park to improve and maintain the extensive urban green space. Those coming up include: n Urban Forest Support Initiative: 9 a.m. Saturday. Volunteer Center, 1031 Harrison Ave. n Litter Abatement Campaign: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday. Volunteer Center, 1031 Harrison Ave. n Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoration Project: 8 a.m. Friday. Big Lake Native Trail near 7 Friedrichs Ave. n City Park Kayak Cleanup: 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. Meet at the gravel launch at the intersection of Dueling Oaks Drive and Dreyfous

Drive. Volunteers are sought to join City Park’s kayak krewe to work with staff to remove litter from waterways with the use of personal kayaks. n Grow Dat Ecological Restoration Project: 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 31. Grow Dat Farm, 150 Zachary Taylor Drive. Project focuses on native plant maintenance, removing invasive species, trimming, mulching and more. Register for the programs and ﬁnd out what to bring at friendsofcitypark.volunteerhub.com. Have a home and garden event coming up? Send it to events@ theadvocate.com.

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Esplanade Ave. Victorian boasts sauna, wraparound balcony BY MARIGNY LANAUX Staff writer

The home at 622 Esplanade Ave. immediately impresses onlookers with wood siding, a raised foundation and a wraparound balcony that towers over mature oak trees. In addition to its exterior grandeur, the three-story residence has eight bedrooms and 11 bathrooms across 5,587 square feet, listed for $2.25 million. Built in 1892 and fully renovated in 2004, the Victorian home boasts architectural charm with modern elements. Pocket doors, period hardware, plaster medallions and chandeliers can be found throughout. The front entrance, nestled on the right side, opens onto a foyer with a grand staircase. Visitors can easily pivot to the left and enter the double parlor, where both rooms are connected by a magnificent arched opening. The space features high ceilings, intricate millwork, ornate lighting fixtures, large windows and two fireplaces with mantels. The kitchen can be reached by traversing through the double parlor, also creating a walk-through to the lightdrenched breakfast room. Cooking and storage opportunities are plentiful with built-in, floor-to-ceiling cabinetry; a wine cooler; an island with seating for two and a gas cooktop; and a Viking double oven. Upon ascending the staircase to the second-story landing, there is access to the wraparound balcony. Positioned on the French Quarter side of Esplanade Avenue, the elevated vantage point offers views of the city beyond. Most bedrooms and bathrooms are on the second story, as well as the laundry room and a study. The primary suite is a stately retreat with floor-to-ceiling windows, a fire-

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C OV ER S T OR Y

STATEMENT

SPACE

Return of the formal dining room is encouraging connection

BY JYL BENSON | Contributing writer After a spring visit to

homeowners are reverting back

Richmond, Virginia, Edie Pitt

to layouts that provide more

noticed a growing trend of bold

privacy and have dedicated

— borderline outrageous —

spaces for socializing.

formal dining rooms.

A room that was a catch-all

She brought the trend home

for junk is now the Pitt family’s

to Uptown, where the house she

favorite place in the house. The

shares with her husband, Jeffrey, couple now has dinner together and sets the table with their overlooks one of New Orleans’ iconic parks.

wedding china, once rarely used.

“I was inspired by Audubon

“I started throwing dinner

Park,” Pitt said. “I wanted to

parties again. I have had eight

bring the feeling of the park

dinner parties in the past six

inside.” She banished the piles of junk mail and business correspondence covering the dining room table and gave the space a serious overhaul. But she’s not the only one taking a new look at the formal dining room. After decades of renovations for more open ﬂoor plans, experts say American

months. Before that, even though I love to cook, I hadn’t had a dinner party in the six years since my youngest daughter went away to college,” she said. “Now, people want to come over and sit in this amazing room. I have inspired others to overhaul their dining rooms and start using them again, too.” ä See DINING, page 15

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Since renovating their dining room, Jeffrey and Edie Pitt now use the space daily and host dinner parties. PHOTO BY JEFF STROUT

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Color-drenched dining room achieves a glasslike appearance The final step was two coats of the Fine Paints of Europe Hollandlac Brilliant 98, also color-matched. It was thinned by 10-15% with the brand’s Mineral Spirits for better flow and leveling. The walls were again sanded with 320-grit paper between coats. The result is a level 5 finish with a glasslike appearance. Throughout the process, seven gallons of the Hollandlac Brilliant 98 at $203.39 per gallon were used, but the highest cost, by far for homeowners, is the specialized labor. In Pitt’s case, her highly skilled employees undertook the task. Had she paid a painting contractor, the cost would have been around $30,000. “When I started with Helm three years ago, the high gloss finish from Fine Paints of Europe was pretty popular,” said Helm, now the company’s business development manager. “I was selling probably a gallon a week. That has fallen off because it is so expensive, and it’s tedious, lengthy and demanding to apply it and get it right. However, I suspect sales will pick up again as soon as more people see Edie’s dining room. It’s simply incredible.” — Jyl Benson

To achieve the eye-popping paint job in the dining room of her circa 1890 Greek Revival home, Edie Pitt began by visiting Helm Paint & Decorating. She conferred with Justin Helm, who advised her on how to achieve the Fine Paints of Europe extreme high-gloss finish she was after for the long-ignored space. When the job was done, she posted pictures of it on Instagram (@pitt_properties_nola) and immediately garnered thousands of likes. “It was a serious process. It took months. It’s toxic. The room was fully sealed off, and people could only enter and exit through the windows,” Pitt said. “The crew had to wear respirator masks. I understand why it is so expensive, and no one wants to do it. It helped that I have a crew that works for me, and they could take on the job.” First, even the slightest imperfections in the existing wood paneling, trim, walls and ceiling were filled with Bondo. The room was then sanded with 320-grit sandpaper and coated with brushing putty to remove any imperfections. Some areas of the wall were bulging, so plaster was used to fill those areas to ensure the smoothest surface. Plaster has a harder finish than typical Sheetrock mud. Next, alkyd primer tinted to match Spring Meadow Green by Benjamin Moore was applied to all surfaces to further hide imperfections. The surfaces were again sanded with 320-grit sandpaper before being carefully inspected under LED lighting to identify any small blemishes that still had to be addressed.

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Kevin Gillentine and Vincent Bergeal’s dining room is, aside from the kitchen, the heart of the home. They frequently host book club meetings and dinner parties in the space.

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Continued from page 12 Pitt, a property developer, put her crew to work on the dining room walls, trim and ceiling in an exhaustive, twomonth color-drenching process. They used Fine Paints of Europe Hollandlac Brilliant 98 extreme high-gloss paint — color-matched to Benjamin Moore’s Spring Meadow Green. The result is jaw-dropping. “Everyone who walks in

the room just shrieks, ’Oh my God.’ It’s almost as though the room is living,” Pitt said. “It is constantly moving due to the light coming in from the windows and reﬂecting off every surface on the walls and ceiling.” She deliberately kept the room free of artwork, draperies and rugs so they wouldn’t compete with the paint’s extreme intensity.

A dedicated space For the past three decades, people have gotten rid of the formal dining room to create ever-larger, open kitchens that

segue into casual living and dining areas. But that is changing. According to an April 2025 Southern Living article, homeowners are reverting to formal dining rooms to create an intentional space for quality time, digital disconnection and relief from the noise of open-concept ﬂoor plans. Also, rising costs have led homeowners to romanticize hosting and creating special restaurantlike experiences. “In New Orleans, where lots and building footprints are often constrained, we’re always

encouraging clients to think carefully about how they use their space and what matters most to them,” said architect Jennifer Zurik, a partner of MZ Architecture. “We ask them to establish priorities, and we often ﬁnd that sharing meals and spending time together is high on that list.” Zurik shared that for years, everyone was obsessed with large kitchen islands. While they have their purpose, sitting in a line at a counter doesn’t offer the same opportunity for conversation and connection as sitting around a

table. “This is one area where we encourage (clients) to consider the value of a dining room or defined dining space that genuinely fits,” Zurik said. For Sara and Phil Cossich’s recent renovation, Zurik designed built-in cabinetry. With demanding careers and two children under 10, the couple wanted a dining room that would always be tidy and organized. The floor-to-ceiling built-ins bracket a window covered with a Roman blind

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DINING

Continued from page 15

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Architect Jennifer Zurik designed these built-in features for her clients’ dining room. They are a contemporary interpretation of traditional serving cabinets. She also incorporated an ice maker and specialized storage, making the cabinetry as practical for everyday living as it is for entertaining.

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Edie Pitt kept her dining room free of art and draperies so they wouldn’t compete with the paint finish’s extreme intensity, which, she said, is a work of art.

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This tablescape by Tyler + Tate illustrates a return to opulence and artistry. Setting a lavish table can make any meal an occasion.

above a buffet counter. Below is climate-controlled wine storage, a beverage refrigerator and an ice maker. The mesh fronts of the cabinetry offer a glimpse of the formal dinnerware within. A dramatic saucer-shaped chandelier illuminates the space. Zurik noted that since food is such an important part of local culture, spaces should encourage authentic engagement. “There’s arguably no better way to do that than breaking bread together,” she said. “The dining table is reclaiming its importance.” A stand-alone dining room allows for more creative expression. You can take things to the next level with intense colors and finishes, exuberant wallpaper, statement lighting fixtures or picture-frame molding, instead of limiting yourself to one color palette. In an open-floor concept, you must worry about colors and finishes clashing. Whitney Wilkinson, interior designer for the Cossich home, used Parma Gray by Farrow & Ball on the walls and trim. A textured pearl-finish wallpaper with an undulating pattern covers the ceiling, creating a sense of drama. “It is not a large room, so I wanted to draw the eye upward as you walk in,” Wilkinson said. “A last-minute decision to paint the interiors of the built-ins a rich oxblood color is a subtle detail that you really appreciate as you get closer, with the color peeking through the metal mesh cabinet fronts.” Grate Tate, an interior designer and partner of Magazine Street’s luxury decor store Tyler + Tate, agreed there is a renewed interest in dedicated dining spaces. Tate attributes this to a cultural shift — people are craving moments of connection that bring a sense of occasion to everyday life, rather than returning to the formality of previous generations. “We’re seeing a real yearning for something nostalgic,” Tate said. “People are rediscovering

the pleasure of sitting around a beautifully appointed table, putting their cellphones away, sharing a home-cooked meal and simply enjoying conversation with family and friends.” Tate and his team have also noticed an enthusiasm for beautifully crafted tabletop accessories, including placemats, napkins and tablecloths; locally made, hand-blown glassware; and distinctive decorative objects. “Our customers increasingly want pieces that feel collected rather than mass-produced,” he said. “They’re looking for craftsmanship, interesting materials, beautiful colors and objects that have a sense of history or personality.”

Serving many purposes An advantage of a dedicated dining room is closing the door on kitchen clutter and focusing on your guests. Another trend is using the dining room for double duty as a quiet library, art studio, board game hub or remote workspace. Kevin Gillentine, a local artist and interior designer, has long used his dining room for the many dinner parties and book club meetings he and his husband, Vincent Bergeal, host. Gillentine originally wanted all white walls in his home, keeping things simple and allowing art to stand out. “But Vincent wanted one room to really have a color, not just some accents,” Gillentine said. “We settled on the dining room, and he chose Starburst Orange (Benjamin Moore). I used a matte ﬁnish because it has a softness to it. That color is intense enough. It really makes a statement. I’ve come to love it.” Beyond color drenching, current dining room trends include statement ceilings with murals, lacquer or fabric draping; architectural millwork in both historic renovations and new builds; richly colored cabinetry with deep accent hues; and intimate banquettes in place of formal matched dining sets. Jyl Benson writes about homes and gardens. Email her at jylbenson@gmail.com.

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58x151x134x122 11,640 sq ft, 26 of an acre.

3 Beds, 1 Bath, 1,350 sq ft, Classic raised cottage w/ a detached 2-car garage and covered carport.

815 DUBLIN ST PRICE IMPROVEMENT

3615 E. BODE PKWY.

$1,500/MONTH

2 Beds, 1 Bath, 1,100 sq ft Off street parking for 2.

2 Beds, 1 Bath Off street parking and yard.

SOLD! 910 S. CARROLLTON AVENUE ........................2 Beds / 2 Baths ................$299,000 SOLD! 5858 RHODES AVENUE..................................5 Beds / 3 Baths ................$249,000 SOLD! 3621 47TH STREET........................................3 Beds / 2 Baths ................ $229,000

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Continued from page 17 tion, no value stated, Charles E. Dykes to Leatha Dykes Vincent. ST. FERDINAND DRIVE 5164;: donation, no value stated, Lauranette Clark to Lauranette Clark Trust. SALEM DRIVE 6953: $100,000, Mirenda Debose to Dwayne M. Debose and Sabrina F. Debose. SAN MARCO ROAD 4720: $285,000, Robert Joseph Pitre Sr. and Wendy Wuertz Pitre to Oliver Family Living Trust. SANDALWOOD ST. 4916: $135,000, Tuan Van Mai to Opendoor Property Trust I. VIRGILIAN ST. 4907: $155,000, Jacinda Linnett Hampton and Nicole B. Hampton to Madia L. Lewis.

DISTRICT 4 FOURTH ST. 3309, 3311: $210,000, 3309 Fourth St. LLC to Samayia Hodges. JACKSON AVE. 2110: $60,000, Joan Lyle Singleton to Big Freedia Enterprises LLC and Crystal Ross. LAUREL ST. 3141: $730,000, Lisa Nicole Buell Hebert to Fred Arthur Sawyer and Katrina L. Sawyer.

DISTRICT 5 AMAZON ST. 2839, AMAZON ST. 2901: $381,150, Clear Path Properties LLC to Litouri C. Smith. BERKLEY DRIVE 5907: $440,000, Marie Prophet Placide to Alicia

Domangue Hunoway and Daniel Hunoway. HUBBELL ROAD W. 117: $543,000, Elisa Moran to Drew A. Handwerk and Shannon Marie Mitch Handwerk. JACKSON AVE. 1436, 1448: $560,000, Lynn Luker to Deborah McBride Novotny and Gregory B. Upton. JOSEPH ST. 1015-19: $126,153, Gary P. Zoller and Lisa Pulitzer Zoller to Patty F. Pulitzer. KABEL DRIVE 1125: $145,000, Lucia Miranda Kaplan to Alexander Tran Do. LEBOEUF ST. 919: $111,111, Randy Lloyd and Richard Lloyd to Forease Seas LLC. RAMSEY DRIVE 2610: $305,000, Reyad Jaber to Sean Christopher McGittigan Jr. ROSSEAU ST. 2321-23-27: $340,000, Square 45 LLC to Sammy J. Koll Grandchildren’s Trust.

DISTRICT 6 ANNUNCIATION ST. 4715-17: donation, no value stated, Charles Dommell Perkins to Boylingston Guion Cooper Perkins. CAMP ST. 4854: $730,000, Moore Property Ventures LLC to Melissa Anson Jarrell. CAMP ST. 6035, UNIT 4: $900,000, Jordan Hurst revocable trust to Harry M. Morse and Mariska Lutz Morse. CONSTANCE ST. 3315-17: $500,000, Jennifer Z. Collier and Lee Z. Walker to Katharine O. Biele revocable trust. CYPRESS ACRES DRIVE 2350: $1,300,000, Marengo Property III LLC to Mystic Krewe of Femme

Fatale. FOURTH ST. 3309-11: $179,000, Rivers End Holdings LLC to 3309 Fourth St. LLC. PALMER AVE. 1630: $3,200,000, Corrado A. Giacona II to Rachel Hastings and Tyler Richt Hastings. PATTON ST. 6049: $869,000, Jessica Lynn Hahn to Mary Elizabeth Tucker Neubauer and Paul Neubauer. S. LIBERTY ST. 4724: $230,000, Lance J. Doley and Louis J. Doley Jr. to Next Chapter Renovations LLC. S. ROBERTSON ST. 4117: $475,000, Blake A. Donaubauer and Teahnna Suriano Donaubauer to Karen Sekula Davis and Michael Paul Davis. TOLEDANO ST. 2208: $150,000, Deadre Denise Johnson Edwards and Ronald E. Edwards to Justin Freeman.

DISTRICT 7 FERN ST. 825: $756,867, Amelie Brown Guthrie and Gregory Guthrie to Gia M. Rabito Dileo. LAKE MARINA AVE. 232, UNIT 10D: $100 and other good and valuable consideration, Barry Clay Melancon and Patricia Gaudet Melancon to Carol Goldstein Asher and Harold Alan Asher. LAKE MARINA DRIVE 300, UNIT 15H: $599,000, Andrew John Gatzke to John Richard McGregor and Margaret Blue McGregor revocable living trust. ZIMPLE ST. 8220-22: $100 and other good and valuable consideration, Peter Ehrensing to LHE Development LLC.

3 DREAM HOMES - PRICE DROPS - GREAT VALUES OPEN SUNDAY 1 - 3

SOLD

WIDE DOUBLE

JEFFERSON PARISH

1773-1775 N. DORGENOIS ST. $389,000 Liv & Din Rooms, Culinary kitchens, 2 Bds /2 Ba units! Jazz Fest/City Park

10 MILLWOOD COURT $499,000 4 Beds, 3.5 Baths, Chef kitchens Inside & Outdoors, Glamour Updates!

n TRANSFERS FOR OCT. 9-15

HARAHAN HAROLEANS ST. 89: Gayle F. Finnerty to Christian D. Tortorich, $367,200.

JEFFERSON DODGE AVE. 208: Sara S. Kent to Robert Portinari, $345,000.

KENNER AUGUSTA ST. 2718-20: Lanzhen H. Chen to Jianfeng Chen, donation, no value stated. COLGATE PLACE 8: Darlene H. Weeks to David Brumﬁeld, $235,000. COMPROMISE ST. 719: Standard Mortgage Corp. to Bodden Group LLC, $92,400. GRANDLAKE BLVD. 3328: Jill C. Floyd to Linda B. Flowers, $355,000. GRANDWOOD BLVD. 3334: Dudley J. Degruise Jr. to Monique Mitchell, $285,000. HENRY LANDRY AVE. 512: Cheryl A. Drake to Gabrielle M. Michel, $189,500. HUNTSVILLE ST. 3113: Martin E. Rackley to Ali J. V Jeronimo, $218,000. LISA AVE. 98: Lanzhen H. Chen to Huanhuan C. Wang, donation, no value stated. MINNESOTA AVE. 908: MCLP Asset Co. Inc. to Raul Diaz, $125,000. VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY 2301-2315: Wm R. III Schmidt to WM R. III Schmidt, donation, no value stated.

1629 COLISEUM ST. UNIT 2

HOME-POOL-POOL HS

HELEN

4461 DAVID DR. $390,000

+ HOME WARRANTY

Formal Rms + Den 4 Bd Wing - 2 Ba Eat-in Kitchen 1-Story Lifestyle

Babineaux & Babineaux, Home Sale Partners Realtors Licensed in Louisiana

EAST JEFFERSON

Linda Babineaux 504-957-8014 (c) J. Babineaux 504-813-8460 (c) At Compass Historic Maple Street Office 7934 Maple St. N.O., LA 70118 | 504-861-7575 (O)

A. KATZ REALTOR®, BRC, CRS

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HELEN.KATZ@COMPASS.COM

“I will ALWAYS go the extra mile for you!”

MAGNIFICENT MANSION, ACROSS THE STREET FROM COLISEUM SQUARE has been divided into Condos! NEW PRICE $365,000 gets you 3 bds, 3 1/2 baths with all the old world architectural details & private electric gated 3 car covered parking! This is the front unit with access to the grand porch & balconies. Newly replastered pool & brick patio too! 200 Broadway, Ste 142, New Orleans, LA 504.866.2785 Licensed by LREC • Licensed in Louisiana

W. LOYOLA DRIVE 3433: Christian I Torres to Layla D. Riley, $260,000. W. LOYOLA DRIVE 4137: David J. Crawford to Micaza Rentals LLC, $120,000. WOODLAKE BLVD. 9: Miranda W. Foster to Mercedes M. Deloach, $785,000. ZION ST. 17: Bach Property LLC to Rodriguez Rentals LLC, $625,000.

METAIRIE ACADEMY DRIVE 3504: Ninette V Lafranca to Stephen Klein, $90,000. ARIS AVE. 1245: Quinlivan Homes LLC to Amy H. Guillot, $699,000. BAUVAIS ST. 3619: Stanley A.C. Bing to X Zone Properties LLC, $155,000. BAUVAIS ST. 3620-22: Stanley A.C. Bing to Kahnhart Properties LLC, $101,000. BONNIE ST. 1613: Christine G. Foss to Sarah F. Glynn, $390,000. BURNELL COURT 2100-02: Leslie M.F. Jones to Matthew Gaudet, $265,000. CANAL ST. 717: Peyton S. Martiny to D Villere, $310,000. CENTRAL DRIVE 13: Jennifer H. Holmes to Michael T. Martinez, $630,000. CIVIC ST. 3917: Fay D. Landry to Steven C. Garza, $174,000. CLEARVIEW PARKWAY 3704: Rowena M. Johnson to Jialiang Guan, $238,000. DISNEY DRIVE 1513: Elise N. King to Caroline G.W. Reed, $240,000. FAIRFIELD ST. 4824: Regina C. Robertson to Francesco A. Pineda, $355,000. FERAN DRIVE 3708: Ana M. Piedra to Claire G. Doody, $379,500. FIELD AVE. 1628: Samantha C. H. Olivero to Ericka V Divincent, $525,000. HOUMA BLVD. 2201: Michael Hotstream to Mario J. Mero, $70,000. HOUMA BLVD. 2500: Alyssa R. Alcazar to Vernile A. Cavalier Jr., $85,000. HOUMA BLVD. 2500: Polly Properties LLC to Alyssa R. Alcazar, $75,000. HOUMA BLVD. U105 2201: Nancy P. Dedebant to Timothy R. Wygant, $91,500. JASPER ST. 4709: Michael D. Villarrubia to Abigail Young, $170,000. KENT AVE. 1012: Hartenstein Michael & Mary Hartenstein D.S.L.C. to Oracle Properties LLC, $282,000.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS WEST JEFFERSON n TRANSFERS FOR OCT. 9-15

AVONDALE AVONDALE GARDEN ROAD 412: Calvin Houston to Kirt Williams, donation, no value stated. JAMIE BLVD. 240: C.B. Boudreaux to Joseph M. Isles Jr., $186,000. LANDSDOWNE DRIVE 4143: DSLD LLC to Alvin II Donaldson, $295,816.

BRIDGE CITY HOOTER ROAD 617: Dwayne M. Joseph to New Orleans Property Ventures Inc., $65,000.

GRETNA 119 LAVOISIER ST. 117: Brent E. Trauth to Brent E. Trauth, $350,000. 21ST ST. 700: Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Chance D. Kee, $99,000. ALEXANDER COURT 1624: Ralph L. Guerrera Jr. to Southern Management of Real Estate LLC, $192,000. CEDAR LANE 11: Casa Nola

EAST

Continued from page 18 KENT AVE. 913: Daggs Properties LLC to Mason Burgess, $285,000. LAKE AVE. U115 1161: Vladlena C. Muravschi to Maria V Bertucci, $84,000. N. LABARRE ROAD 3417: James Sticker Jr. to Great Southern Real Estate Development LLC, $280,000. N. STARRETT ROAD 621: Odile R. Victor to R.L. Shaw, $90,000. NEYREY DRIVE 4405: Cheryl L.B. Booth to Angeline C. Ochoa, $497,000. PAPWORTH AVE. 1201: Drm Rental Properties LLC to Robby Graham, $340,000. SCHOUEST ST. 6513: New Orleans Property Ventures Inc. to Makayla Wright, $355,000. SHIRMAINE LANE 509: Patrick M. Judd to Peyton M. Shall, $375,000. SIGUR AVE. 1329: John A. Mipro Jr. to Michelle M.E. Bertus, $279,000. TARTAN DRIVE 5117: Clint Clement to Erica Artus, donation, no

Investments LLC to Ely A. Zelaya, $129,000. FRANKLIN ST. 1028: MN4CLVBLLC to One Thousand Twenty Eight Franklin LLC, $175,000. HAWTHORNE ST. 304: Allie A. Taylor to Carlos A.C. Ramirez, $526,500. SOUTHWOOD DRIVE 341: M.R. Sylve to Jade H. Wuertz, $320,000. STAFFORD ST. 1638: Leslie T. Blackburn Jr. to Rodney Hinrichs, $118,000. WESTMEADE DRIVE 392: David S. Myers to Janet C.P. Georgeon, $238,000. WILLOWBROOK DRIVE 549: Viola Gros to Donald Rauch, $76,000.

HARVEY BONN ST. 2063: Fmaj LLC to Banana Factory LLC, $975,000. CENTAUR ST. 2680: Monica M. Peterson to Elegant Houses LLC, $155,000. FOS AVE. 621: Judy L.B. White to Harley & Me LLC, $76,800. KILLINGTON DRIVE 2124: JCTSE LLC to Reginald Jackson Sr., $48,000. LAPALCO BLVD. 1600: SCP 2005 C21 076 LLC to Lapalco Manhattan Investment LLC, $2,450,000.

PAILET AVE. 441: Noor N. Mazeena to Mohamed I Faiz, donation, no value stated. RAMON VIA 36: Home Equity Mortgage Asset Backed Pass Through Certiﬁcates Series 2006 K.S.8. to Zz Prime Management LLC, $136,500. S. HARPER DRIVE 2263: Jabbar Brothers LLC to Mohammad Sarmini, $78,000. SECOND AVE. 705: Jocelyn Roberts to Julian Sanchez, $199,900. W. FRIENDSHIP DRIVE 2725: Kathie C. Lambert to Tubas LLC, $132,500. W. PARC GREEN ST. 3421: Beverly S. Johnson to Jebreel K. Jebreel, $348,000. WESTMERE ST. 2332: Valentin D. Richiez to Fany Zamora, donation, no value stated.

MARRERO ALLO AVE. 653: Ruby M. Dominick to Home Investments Nola LLC, $45,000. AVE. F 1405: Keith J. Nicosia to Rhonda B. Barcelona, $300,000. AVE. G 1517: Danny Nguyen to Trisha L. Tran, donation, no value stated. BARATARIA BLVD. 5450: Vincent

P. Caruso to Allison K. Adam, $615,000. BAYOU CARENCRO DRIVE 2700: Jessica Wallace to Denise Magee, $235,000. BAYOU VISTA DRIVE 2704: Freedom Mortgage Corp. to Jasey Thibodeaux, $173,250. EVELINA ST. 6225: Chet E. Bear to Cecil F. Reine, $165,000. GAUDET ST. 605: Gail B. Banquer to Angela P. Ohlsen, $105,000. MILLWOOD COURT 10: Mario J. Mannina to Nareman Suleiman, $485,000. RUNNYMEDE DRIVE 7120: Kendra R.J. Washington to Saundra Stevenson, $200,000.

TERRYTOWN HERITAGE AVE. 503: Robert W. Giepert to Brigette G. Bodenheimer, donation, no value

stated. HOLMES BLVD. 407: Horton Inc. Gulf Coast D.R. to Cynthia Green, $244,900.

WESTWEGO AVE. B 831: Jessica A.L. Lanius to Julia Vedros, $151,650. BARBE DRIVE 1236: Canh Do to John Nguyen, $338,000. CEDRE DRIVE 930: New Orleans Property Ventures Inc. to Angela G. Caruso, $225,000. HELIS DRIVE 395: Amanda B. Bordelon to Sarah E.D. Freeman, $139,000. HELIS DRIVE 425: R&I Investments to Devante Sims, $170,000. KENNEY DRIVE 1238: Sara V Quintanilla to Kyle Frickey, $170,000. WEST DRIVE 1125: Ronald G. Still to Dylan Piglia, $187,000.

SHERRY L. OWEN CRS, GRI, SFR, ABR

228-760-2815 • 228-822-9870 OWENSHERRYL@AOL.COM 2208 18TH ST, SUITE B, GULFPORT, MS 39501 WWW.OWENANDCO.COM

COMFORT, STYLE & COASTAL LIVING! ONE HOUSE FROM THE BEACH! GULFPORT, MS

New Orleans Property Ventures Inc., $192,000. ST. PAUL AVE. 10120: Lauren Eiserloh to Tiffany R. Hilderbrand, $265,000. TULLULAH AVE. 308: Linda G. L. Smith to Dana R. Duncan, $665,000.

value stated. WEST ESPLANADE AVE. 1820: Fay A. Laborde to Oscar O.O. Garcia, $200,000. YALE AVE. 1701: Ashleigh M.B. Vanderbrook to Cole Sisung, $321,500.

RIVER RIDGE REX DRIVE 117: Zachary Frye to

TONI VAN ZANDT

504-913-8665

toni@reverealtors.com

4827 Prytania St.--NOLA 70115 504-300-0700 Licensed in Louisiana

NEW SEASON, NEW HOME!

600 PORT OF NEW ORLEANS

BUY WITH CONFIDENCE. SELL WITH SUCCESS. $2,250,000 TRUST THE Elegant 2 Bed, 2.5 Baths, 2,639 Sqft, EXPERIENCE. Corner Unit w/ Panoramic Views of French Quarter & Mississippi River. Combines luxury & location for an unparalleled living experience, ENJOYTHERESULTS. oﬀering easy access to world-class dining, UNIT 6F • ONE RIVER PLACE / FRENCH QUARTER

NEW PRICE

shopping, cultural attractions, & outdoor activities & so much more!

SOLD

8623 Zimple Street ..................................... $710,000

1515 OLIVE AVENUE | $585,000

3 Beds / 3 Baths / 1,869 Sq.Ft. Welcome to this beautiful home just moments from the beach. Open ﬂoor plan creates a bright & inviting atmosphere, cozy den with a ﬁreplace and the dining area-ideal for everyday living and entertaining. A must-see!

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OCT. 2

ABITA SPRINGS ABITA LAKES SUBDIVISION, PHASE 3B1, 3B2, 3A: Tammany Middle LLC to Abita Lakes Property Owners Association Inc., donation, no value stated. ABITA SPRINGS TERRACE, LOT 25A, SQUARE 9: James W. Rochelle Jr. to Will A. McBryde and Taylor B. D’Arcourt, $287,000. CHOCTAW DRIVE 503: Wayne A. Juneau Jr. and Kara Peyton Juneau to Todd J. Taranto III and Heather W. Taranto, $383,500. PORTER DRIVE 71207: DSLD Homes LLC to Nesttwell Properties LLC, $279,500.

COVINGTON 19TH AVE. 1020: GSM Real Estate LLC to Kathryn P. Morton Poer, $380,000. ANNADELE COURT 500: Terra Bella Group LLC to Highland Homes Inc., $145,000. ANNADELE COURT 512: Terra Bella Group LLC to Highland Homes Inc., $112,500. ANNADELE COURT 532: Terra Bella Group LLC to Highland Homes LLC, $90,000. AUTUMN WOODS DRIVE 323: Grouchy Living Trust to Christopher K. Henning Jr. and Brittany Giambelluca, $280,000. AVE. LOUIS QATROZE 875, NINTH ST. 70360: Timothy W. Stein and Rebecca C. Stein to Stein Family Trust, donation, no value stated. BETA AVE. 74489: Richard W. Sambola to Joe Thomas Dennis-

ton, $275,000. COUNTRY CLUB PARK 12: Kevin G. Alario and Elizabeth B. Alario to Scott A. Evans Living Trust, $1,689,000. CRESTVIEW HILLS LOOP 75400: Bennett Jean Lacour IV and Emily C. Hattier Lacour to Christina Lyn Bodin-Turner, $315,000. CYPRESS POINT DRIVE 4248: Rockwell Builders LLC to Raymond G. Willhoft Jr. and Louise P. Willholft, $679,999. DELTA AVE. 74453: Diane S. Batter Tebbe revocable living trust to Lauren Sanchez, $85,000. DIVISION OF NEW COVINGTON SUBDIVISION, LOT 2, SQUARE 2508: Gina Puleio Campo to Thomas M. Rudd and Mary Catherine S. Rudd, $415,000. EMERALD FOREST BLVD. 350, UNIT 19-102, PARKING SPACE NO 141: Michael F. Raimo and Tanya D. Raimo to Stephanie L. Spinks, $135,000. EMERALD OAKS CONDOMINIUM, UNIT 63: Cathey B. Saurage to Nancy B. Roussel, $260,000. EMERALD OAKS DRIVE 208, UNIT 22: Maria Correro to Raymond Horvath Jr. and Kenyon Horvath, $212,000. F ST. 70397: Lee J. Kabrich and Rachel L. Garver Kabrich to Navarre Holdings LLC, $150,000. FERN ST. 21136: William T. Burrall and Pauline E. Burrall to William R. Burrall, $72,000. FERN ST. 21136: William R. Burrall to Justin M. Spear, $138,000. JJ LANE 414: Christine S. Dodson to Christine Dodson Living Trust, donation, no value stated. JUSTIN DRIVE 1825: Demelo Team LLC to Nathanial L. Bell and Rebecca A. Bell, $258,000. K ST. 70472: Bell Group Rentals

559-4808 Licensed in Louisiana

valuable consideration. RIVERLAKE DRIVE 14092: Nicholas S. Kardoulias and Melanie L. Sharp Kardoulias to Nicholas Knobloch, $255,000. RUE PETITE 305: Brooke D. Sharp to Roberta Cartaginese, $495,000. S. RIVER PARC DRIVE 20216: Brian R. Sharp and Erica R. Sharp to Louis M. Cressy and Michelle C. Cressy, $395,000. SHADOW BEND DRIVE 21288: DSLD Homes LLC to Cedric Laird Jr. and Lakshia Stormer, $338,130. SIGNET COURT 800: Eric Williams to Jordan Maggio and Carley E. Chase, $289,000. SOLOMON DRIVE 632: Jonathan Kujawski and Kimberlee Logsdon to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., $264,900. TAMMANY HILLS SUBDIVISION, LOT 32, SQUARE 115: Fletes Investments LLC to Robert D. Kopacz, $225,000. TERRA BELLA SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1A13, LOT 390: Bardwell Construction Co. LLC to Jerry J. Ford and Melissa W. Ford, $736,013. TOWN OF MAILLEVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: 190 Plaza Professional Center LLC to Covington 190 Realty LLC, $1,550,000. W. 18TH AVE. 218: Seymon S. Hartzog III and Pamela Brewton Hartzog to Hart Holidays LLC, donation, no value stated.

FOLSOM N. FACTORY ROAD 82446: Bedord Construction LLC to Brady F. Guy and Maci-Jane Gill Guy, $248,000. ORLEANS AVE. 306: Teresa Wilkens Allison to C.P.M.Y. Investments LLC, $399,800. RAEHYO LANE 13186: Matthew

Lane Lacoy

Wendy Hinyub www.wendyhinyub.com

LLC to Steven Nuzzo, $252,500. KATHLEEN DRIVE 34: Shannon A. Burns to Adam T. Estopinal and Amanda K. Estopinal, $375,000. LA. 25 COVINGTON: Jessamy Core Long to James R. Huval and Analisa Salinas Leavoy, $52,030. LA. 40 18076: Ernest D. Smitherman III and Joan P. Smitherman to Galloway Farms LLC, $325,000. MOUNT HOPE COURT 536: Bardwell Construction Co. LLC to Cristina M. Pumilia, $679,900. NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: Fredric J. Schwarz and Caecilie R. Schwarz to Steven C. Hymel and Wendy C. Hymel, $205,000. NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: Madeline Sharp Chexnayder to Beth Trapani McShan, donation, no value stated. NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: Lisa Garcia Schwing to Martin W. Murphy and Carolyn Ann Lorio Murphy, $90,000. NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: Brenda Clark Benoit to Mcubed Properties LLC, $1,000,000. N. CORNICHE DU LAC 540: Kay Hunt Montgomery Trust to Jennifer Maxey Rubio, $760,000. N. DOGWOOD DRIVE 102: Paul Bradford King to Brad King Family Trust, donation, no value stated. N. SECOND ST. 19419, 19427: Sally Lam Rentals LLC to D’Antoni Properties LLC, $1,250,000. RED BUD COURT 108: Ivan Mantilla and Daniela Puccetti to Christopher P. Happ and Rebecca Seal Happ, $640,000. RING NECK DOVE DRIVE 67736: Newtek Small Business Finance LLC to CCC Real Estate Holding Co. LLC, $100 and other good and

3500 N. Causeway, Suite 350 | Metairie, LA 70002 Independently Owned & Operated

504-957-5116 504-372-0050

Historic Home Specialist Associate Broker/Realtor

840 Elysian Fields Ave New Orleans, LA 70117

10 GLACIER STREET

1935 JOURDAN AVE

NEW PRICE

WOWZA!!! WOWZA!!!

3bd, 2ba in lower ninth ward, move-in ready, open floor plan

727 MONTEGUT ST.

Kenner $410,000

5bd/2ba newly ren home in Driftwood, 4bds/3ba, ren kitchen, pool, garage 3600+ sq. ft., high ceils, new kit converted to cabana or playroom

New Orleans $174,000

4824 FAIRFIELD STREET

4213 LOIRE DRIVE

732 VILLAGE RD. UNIT E

SOLD

Metairie $400,000

Kenner $310,000

$165,000

3bd/2.5ba home, wood floors, big yard

3bd/2ba home in Chateau with a 2bd/2ba Beautiful renovated condo fortified roof, lam floors, granite ctrs in Cobblestone Village

SOLD

4417 JANICE AVENUE ........................................... Metairie $395,000 5809 MORTON STREET .............................................Metairie $250,000 10 GELPI AVENUE ................................................... Driftwood $250,000 2600 PIRATE DRIVE................................................Chalmette $235,000

LACOMBE NEAR LACOMBE, PORTION OF GROUND: Calvin Minor and Mary Brennan Minor to Pelican GroveCDL LLC, $800,800. NEAR LACOMBE, PORTION OF GROUND: Dennis E. Glass to Steadfast Builds LLC, $115,000. PALMER DRIVE 28317: Dark Roux Properties LLC to David D. Blache, $10,000.

MADISONVILLE BELLE POINTE SUBDIVISION, LOT 70: Steven J. Deffenbaugh and Mary Ann Cato Deffenbaugh to Michael R. Guisler and Cory H. Guisler, $510,000. CHURCHILL DRIVE 117: Dickie M. Brady and Pamela Ann Brady to Dickie M. Brady and Pamela A. Brady Living Trust, donation, no value stated. NEAR MADISONVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Carolyn Peter Haynes to Diaz Realty Investmetns LLC, $450,000. NIGHT HERON LANE 647: Alvarez Construction Co. LLC to Don Terrell Austin and Carmita Diana Austin, $542,283. NIGHT HERON LANE 663: Alvarez Construction Co. LLC to Colby R. Lucia and Kaitlyn T. Lucia, $513,000.

MANDEVILLE

108 LISA AVENUE Kenner $450,000

A. DePhillips and Jennifer W. DePhillips to Brandi O. Daul and Kelly B. Daul, $300,000. RAINEY ROAD 81051: Bailey Mae Reycraft to Rainey Road LLC, $225,000. STONELAKE DRIVE 13628: Traill Living Trust to Matthew J. Severns and Melissa D. Severns, $395,000. THOMPSON ROAD 15086: Angel L. Maldonado Jr. and Griselda M. Maldonado to Nicholas S. Kardoulias and Melanie L. Sharp Kardoulias, $300,000.

Licensed in Louisiana

$560,000

Renovation JUST finished on KNOCKOUT Bywater single 3 BR’s, 2 super baths, 1670 sq. ft., Dyn-o-mite Kitchen/stainless/ quartz, 12’ & 10’ high ceilings, fireplaces, “L” shaped Den, laundry, refinished heart pine floors (no carpet), cent. a/h, brick patio, grass & shrubs, PLUS covered Lanai for entertaining, walk to Crescent Park, gym, bistros, restaurants, & shops!

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ARIES DRIVE 500: Jacquline J. Marchand to Matthew C. Richardson, $168,000. AUDUBON LAKE DRIVE 47: Keith M. McCabe to Richard M. Gunther Jr. and Karen M. Gunther, $250,000. BLUFF COURT 2653: Matthew H. Clapp and Rachel S. Clapp to Alexander Faulk and Brittany Faulk, $385,000. CAMBRONNE ST. 657: LRT Properties LLC to 657 Cambronne St. LLC, donation, no value stated. CEDARWOOD DRIVE 419, UNIT 419: Patsy Lang Properties LLC to Darren F. Lavarine, $109,000.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS CLAIBORNE ST. 1929: Brian C. Ball and Kristine M. Ball to Michael A. O’Shaughnessy and Tara M. O’Shaughnessy, $1,125,000. COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES, LOT 26: Christopher C. Buller and Tova Horowitz Buller to Noel & Kerr Properties LLC, $235,000. DESTIN ST. 1820: Stephanie Kinler Carpenter to Kevin J. Talley, $230,000. ELIZABETH LANE 8004: Roland Lester and Nicole Shipp Bar Lester to John M. Daniel McIntire and Bailey Leann Armstrong, $680,000. EMERSON LANE 502: Gregory J. Roussel and Nancy B. Roussel to Gustave A. Seeber III and Cathy C. Seeber, $379,000. FOREST LOOP 901: Taylor3R LLC to C&C Renovations LLC, $135,000. FOY ST. 1121: Dennis W. Kroger to William Esquinance and Betty Esquinance, $60,000. GROVE COURT 3155: Ryan C. Velez and Caitlin W. Velez to Garrett D. Turro and Alexandra M. Turro, $430,000. KINGSWOOD SUBDIVISION, LOT 8: KPM Construction LLC to Nutpinya Grimes and Dustin Grimes, $556,000. LAFAYETTE ST. 138: Cynthia Henry Berry to Brandon Hubbard, $330,000. LAKES OF GREENLEAVES SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, 1A, 1B LOT:: Anna Miller Whitacre to Raziano Renovations LLC, $252,000. LOCKE ST. 67236: Justin R. Coe to Gavin J. Curcio and Alexa E. Curcio, $385,000. MAGNOLIA ALLEY 1215: Bryan C. Clawson, Stacie L. Noe Clawson and Bradley M. Clawson to Noel H. Baker, $375,000. MAISON DU LAC SUBDIVISION, LOT 206: Panno Construction LLC to Shaun L. Prestridge and Lisa B. Prestridge, $779,556. MARQUETTE ST. 4615: Donald Rex English and Stella C. English to Daniel Evans Jr. and Caroline Evans, $380,000. MONTAIGNE ST. 67120: Richard M. Barcelona Jr. and Stephanie R. Barcelona to Louisiana Land Trust, $250,000. MORNINGSIDE DRIVE 271: Tadd A. May and Jamie D. May to Chase Favre and Lindsay B. Favre, $1,165,000. MULBERRY AVE. 100: Thomas Porter Trimble to EJW Properties LLC, $2,200,000. NEAR MANDEVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Michael W. Dougherty and Wayne F. Krentel to Mason C. Guillot and Rachel L. Guillot, $100,000.

NEAR MANDEVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Blanche D. Ullo, Ethel Ullo Madden and others to Jesse J. Tuminski and Lexie B. Tuminiski, $215,000. NEAR MANDEVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Hygain Management LLC to Mark Malkemus, $349,000. NEVA COURT 1815: Wesley J. Blanchard and Rachel H. Blancard to Teresa L. Sylvest, $341,965. OLD MANDEVILLE WOODS SUBDIVISION, LOT 2B: Barry Barrios to Joseph F. Patrick Ricks III and Tammy D. Ricks, $140,000. ORLEANS ST. 1311: Andre G. Robichaux to Robichaux Family Trust, donation, no value stated. PINELAND PARK ESTATES, PHASE 1, LOT 40: Julius L. Aldana and Dorothy M. Lynch Aldana to Aldana Family Living Trust, donation, no value stated. QUAIL CREEK SUBDIVISION, PHASE 8, LOT 181: James G. Dugar Jr. and Michele P. Dugar to Frederick D. Edgecombe, $388,000. REMMY COURT 101-107: Omaris LLC to Omar Canas, donation, no value stated. RUE WELLER 2445: Chelsea L. Peed to Scott Entrekin and Rebekah Entrekin, $202,100. SANDALWOOD DRIVE 323: Yi Xiong and Yang Pan to Argaron Washington and Crystal L. Washington, $720,000. SHAUNELL DRIVE 225: Marcos D. Orkoulas and Leah R. Orkoulas to Melody Merkouris, $525,000. STATE ST. 70313: Seth D. Denham and Chelsey Beane Denham to Mark Perret and Laura Spell, $310,000. TEE BOURG LANE 70226: Audrey L. LeBreton to Dominic T. Falati

and Cassie J. Vermeeren Falati, $199,970. TEMPLAR LOOP 4427: Noel H. Baker to John Roberts Jr., $608,000. TOPS’L DRIVE 701, UNIT G1: Anthony P. Pastorello to Phillip J. Pearce, $200,000. W. FIELD COURT 213: Christian P. Serpas to Mark W. Miller Jr., $262,000. WALNUT ST. 212: Succession of Raymond R. Mathon and Gloria G. Mathon to Curtis Gremillion, $210,000.

PEARL RIVER 16TH SECTION ROAD 69472: Succession of James C. Polk and Daisy Mae Williams to Vincent G. Boyer and Melissa Alfonso Boyer, $133,000. CALHOUN SUBDIVISION, LOT 8, SQUARE 3: Jerry Livingston and Hazel Livingston revocable trust to BMN Services LLC and NOCO Investments LLC, $30,000. LA. 1091 62004: Colinda Diane Massimini to Gregory Groglio, $655,000. LESLEY LANE 140: Jeffrey Gindro and Raina E. Gindro to Carroll L. Boyer and Ashley M. Blackwell, $225,000. NEAR PEARL RIVER, PORTION OF GROUND: Robert C. Keppler III to Elizabeth Palmer, $50,000. RACE HORSE ROAD 69382: GSRE LLC to Bryan Hollowell and Katherine Hollowell, $120,000. W. POWERLINE ROAD 37130: Lorna Judd Barre to Ali N. Alwidian and Leila I. Nunez, $69,000.

Holding LLC, $125,000. BLUE RUSH LANE 909: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Sameka S. Marie Martin, $219,900. BLUEBIRD DRIVE 285: Succession of Steven A. Hutchinson to Britton S. Overby, $166,000. BRIDGE DRIVE 3325: Amy Owenby to Ross Commodore Himber, $195,000. CAMELOT DRIVE 104: Glenn D. Credeur and Elisa V. Ayala Credeur to Gerard R. Schuler and Penny A. Schuler, $330,000. CARA MAE ST. 40628: D.R. Horton Inc. Gulf Coast to Tamika N. Byrd, $309,900. CARA MAE ST. 40632: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Shayne W. Parker and Jacqueline T. Parker, $289,900. CARA MAE ST. 40586: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Lynnette L. Jackson, $293,900.

CARA MAE ST. 40745: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Blake A. Jackson, $276,900. CIRCLEWOOD COURT 109: Sharon Lagrange Benfatti to Connor M. Wilkinson and Kyleigh A. Remerow, $280,000. CUTTYSARK COVE 1552: Richard Smith and Loan Kim Thi Tran Pham to Dwight Windell Stephens and Joy L. Robinson, $642,000. DOVER ST. 310: Jovan Trouillier to Timara Lawrence, $173,800. FERNWOOD DRIVE 1542: Succession of Karay Cunningham Klein to Eric R. Dupuy and Amy L. Dupuy, $299,000. FLORENCE DRIVE 557: Mark C. Dyer II to Ryan C. Velez and Caitlin W. Velez, $515,000. FLORIDA AVE. 529: Alexandra L.

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Continued from page 21 Ricks to Patrick T. Ricks, donation, no value stated. FORESTWOOD COURT 2: Greta E. Nordgren to Louis Ochoa Investments LLC, $100,000. HERWIG BLUFF ROAD 41554: Clinton Harry Sharp III to CT Sharp Family Trust, donation, no value stated. HICKORY ST. 1507-09: Justin R. Goutierrez to BKMR Enterprises LA LLC, $215,000. HIGH RIDGE LOOP 624: Don T. Austin and Carmita D. Austin to John D. Vance, $320,000. INDIAN MOUND LANE 121: Steven St. Romain Sr. and Karin Seube St. Romain to Martin Heidman, $204,000. JOHN DRIVE 203: Daniel C. Carter and Rebecca G. Carter to Robin Busby and Samantha D. Busby, $17,000. JOY DRIVE 1106: Victoria Lynn G. Sharp to CT Sharp Family Trust, donation, no value stated. LAKESHORE VILLAGES SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1A, LOT 130: Bradley S. Burch to Talissa L. Andrews, $249,900. LAKESHORE VISTA BLVD. 2786: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Candace Gregory, $403,735. LIGHTHOUSE POINT 108: Succession of Angel R. Cosme Sr. to Gerard Raby, $420,000. LOGAN ISLAND COURT 508: Barry D. McMullan and Sandra M. McMullan to Jeffrey Dowden and Erica Dowden, $811,500. LOOKOUT PLACE 3112: Succession of Marion M. Gerchow to

Keith J. O’Cain and Lillian M. O’Cain, $30,000. MEADOWS BLVD. 209: Joann Vlismas Riddle to Kenric Sylve and Megan A. Long, $277,300. NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Lotus Slidell LLC to Pinnacle Residences Slidell LLC, $2,500,000. NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Thomas Casamento and Jeanne R. Casamento to Stephen A. Dolan III, $45,000. NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Dragonﬂy Enterprises Inc., succession of Donald P. Aleman and Judy H. Aleman to Christopher C. Roberts and Tina White Roberts, $14,000. NICKLAUS DRIVE 361: Susaan J. Gonda Family Trust to Christopher Ryan Gordon, donation, no value stated. NINTH ST. 1073: LA&LE Properties LLC to Opendoor Property Trust 1, $209,499. NORTH END SUBDIVISION, LOTS 1, 2, 52, 53, SQUARE 3, LOTS 2, 3, SQUARE 4, LOTS 25, 26, SQUARE 1: Succession of Linda A. Prattini and Paul J. Marchand III to Carol M. Arnaud, $10,000. ORIOLE ST. 2121: Steven E. Teal and Kelly B. Teal to Edward Boesch III and Dawn Boesch, $125,000. PEARL ST. 4146: Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC to Charles Vogel and Vogel Properties LLC, $129,500. PUTTERS LANE 244: Christopher R. Thies and Melissa Ann Thies to Russell Oakes, $112,000. QUAIL RIDGE SUBDIVISION, PHASE 2, LOT 61: Garrett A. Melton and Jessica R. Melton to National Residential Nominee

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Runners annually blitz campus’s prized peonies BY MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press

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TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2026. There are 68 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations formally came into existence as the Charter of the United Nations, ratiﬁed by 51 nations, took effect. The date is now observed as United Nations Day. Also on this date: In 1537, Jane Seymour, the third wife of England’s King Henry VIII, died 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI. In 1861, the ﬁrst transcontinental telegraph message was sent by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abra-

ham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. In 1929, a massive sell-off at the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange led to chaos as stockbrokers couldn’t keep up with trade requests. Though the market recovered some losses by the end of the day, “Black Thursday” marked the beginning of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. In 1931, the George Washington Bridge, connecting New York City with New Jersey, was dedicated. It was the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time. In 1952, Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower vowed to go to Korea as he promised to end the ongoing conﬂict there. (Eisenhower would indeed visit Korea in

December, after winning the election but before his inauguration.) In 2002, authorities arrested John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo near Myersville, Maryland, in the Washington-area sniper attacks that killed 10 people and wounded three that month. (Malvo was later sentenced to life in prison. Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009.) In 2003, the supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial ﬂight, ﬂying from New York to London. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy roared across Jamaica and headed toward Cuba on its way to the eastern United States; what became known as Superstorm Sandy was a combina-

New city and a change of heart Dear Annie: My girlfriend, “Lucy,” and I started dating three years ago, during our senior year of college. After graduating, we both got jobs in the same city Annie where we had Lane gone to school, DEAR ANNIE and we ended up moving in together to save money. Living together was surprisingly easy, as we’re both pretty low-maintenance people. Anyway, Lucy is a good partner. She’s always encouraged me to push myself to pursue my passions. She’s the reason I ended up applying to a dream job even though it was across the country. I never thought I’d actually end up landing it. But I did. I moved out here last month. The plan was for me to come out ﬁrst and get settled in my job; then Lucy would follow a few months later. Things are going really well. The company I’m working for is a perfect ﬁt; there’s so much to see and do in the city, and I’ve already made some friends. The problem is I’m having second thoughts about Lucy.

She’s a great person, and I wouldn’t even be out here if it weren’t for her encouragement. But I just don’t find myself feeling the same sparks. I feel terrible writing these words, but I don’t really miss her. When I see her name lighting up my phone, I have to force myself to answer it. She’s flying out for a visit soon to see my new place and apply to some restaurant jobs before making the move. I don’t know what to do. Should I just wait for her to move out here and see how things go? Or do I need to break it off before then? — Feeling Guilty Dear Feeling Guilty: If you’re feeling guilty now, imagine how you’ll feel if she moves there. It’s time to end things. Keep it short and sweet. Thank her for the years you’ve shared, and then tell her you want to break up. Have this talk sooner rather than later. You’re not doing her any favors by dating her out of a sense of obligation. She deserves someone whose face lights up when her name lights up his phone. Let her go find him. Dear Annie: I’m a prostate cancer survivor. I notice lots of pink in October for Breast

Cancer Awareness Month, but I haven’t noticed as much light blue in September for National Prostate Health Month. The last time I checked, the number of men affected by prostate cancer is similar to the number of women affected by breast cancer, but it does not seem to get as much attention. Although there is not much of September left at the time I’m writing this, I’m still hoping to get some of these facts out. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men. About 1 in 7 men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetimes, and about 1 in 39 men will die from the disease. Risk factors include age, family history and race. African American men are likelier to develop this form of cancer. Know your risk. Talk to your doctor to see whether you should be screened for prostate cancer. — Survivor in Blue Dear Survivor in Blue: Though it’s no longer September, your message is as important as ever. For information, visit the Prostate Cancer Foundation’s website at pcf.org. Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators. com.

The George Washington Bridge, connecting New York City with New Jersey, was the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time of its dedication in 1931. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO BY DAVID GOLDMAN tion of the hurricane and other storms that struck New York and surrounding areas, killing 147 people, 72 in the eastern U.S. Today’s birthdays: Rock musician Bill Wyman is 90. Actor F. Murray Abraham is 87. Actor Kevin Kline is 79. Actor B.D. Wong is 66. Actor Raul Esparza is 56.

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