| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor
BOOM AND ZOOM: OK, who had Mark Ingram returning to the Saints? A source tells The Times-Picayune that Houston has traded the former Saint running back to New Orleans, setting up a backfield reunion with Alvin Kamara. The Saints drafted the Heisman Trophy winner in 2011, and he spent eight seasons in New Orleans, becoming the team's No. 2 all-time leading rusher behind Deuce McAllister, before he left for Baltimore during free agency in 2019. Here's how other Saints reacted.
BREATHE FREELY: Four days before Halloween, Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Wednesday loosened New Orleans's COVID-19 restrictions, ending her requirement that residents and visitors cover their faces in public spaces and tweaking her vaccine mandate to allow a wider variety of negative coronavirus tests as an alternative to getting a shot. Local school systems also began revisiting their mask policies, with St. Tammany immediately dropping its mandate.
HOMEGROWN: Lucid, a darling of New Orleans' nascent tech sector, has become Louisiana's first "unicorn" company, selling for more than $1 billion to a Swedish technology firm in a big victory for the city's startup scene.
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