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High court recalls Murrill’s arrest warrant Second emergency ruling by La. Supreme Court comes late Friday night
BY ANDREA GALLO Staff writer
STAFF PHOTOS By SOPHIA GERMER
Fireworks go off from the Mississippi River during Go Fourth on the River in New Orleans on Saturday.
The General Roy S. Kelley fireboat offers a water show on the Mississippi River during Go Fourth on the River in New Orleans on Saturday.
Celebrating a birthday 250 years in the making is always a big event, and around the New Orleans area, it was a red, white and blue affair. AMERICA From daylong celebrations along the riverfront and in parks, and plenty of patriotic music, the holiday concluded with fireworks over the Mississippi River, making it a Fourth of July for the history books. ä SEE MORE PHOTOS FROM AREA FOURTH OF JULY EVENTS. PAGE 6A
The Louisiana Supreme Court agreed to recall an arrest warrant for Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill in an emergency order late Friday night, the high court’s second major intervention to pause Murrill’s prosecution after her indictment by an Orleans Parish grand jury. The grand jury indicted Murrill on Thursday, charging her with 16 felony counts of malfeasance in office and intimidation. Orleans Criminal District Court Judge Leon Roche issued an alias capias arrest warrant and set Murrill’s bail at $400,000. The indictment, which happened behind closed doors, set off a flurry of filings to Louisiana’s high court. The attorney general quickly asked late Thursday night for the state Supreme Court to intervene, and the court responded with an order Friday morn- Murrill ing that stayed the indictment. The court issued the stay order on a 5-2 vote, critiquing the lack of transparency, alleged conflicts of interest and other deficiencies in the case. The Supreme Court ruled that Murill was “likely to succeed on the merits of a motion to quash this indictment on either a legal basis or due to apparent procedural irregularities.” They remanded the case back to district court for Murrill to file motions in her defense. But by late Friday, Murrill returned to the high court and alleged the special prosecutor appointed to her case, former New Orleans Judge Laurie White, had refused to recall the
ä See MURRILL, page 8A
‘Once in a lifetime’
Louisiana native behind U.S. Mint’s 250 commemoration Special coins flip the script on traditional pieces
BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer
WASHINGTON — While taxpayers are spending tens of millions of dollars on America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, such as a huge state fair on the National Mall and an epic fireworks show, a Mandeville native is raising millions for the government through the production and sale of coins
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Plan to restore wild Chandeleur Islands moves forward
that remember scenes from American history. “The Mint this year is making more coin design changes than Hollis you’ve ever seen in your entire life,” said Director of the U.S. Mint Paul Hollis, a former northshore state legislator and Board of Elementary & Secondary Education member. The nation’s semiquincentennial
They are Louisiana at its most remote, accessible only by boat or seaplane. But these islands could be lost forever in the decades ahead. Far out on the state’s southeastern boundary, what’s left of the Chandeleur Islands curves into the Gulf like a fading parenthesis, heavily eroded but still acting as a speed bump for storms while providing crucial habitat for wildlife and seagrassSTAFF PHOTO By MIKE SMITH es. That’s why, despite their remoteness and accelMatthew Weigel, of the state Department of Wildlife erating vanishing act, the state wants to restore as and Fisheries, and Todd Baker, from the Coastal much of them as possible. An important lifeline has
ä See COINS, page 8A
ä See ISLANDS, page 10A
BY MIKE SMITH Staff writer
Protection and Restoration Authority, wade toward North Chandeleur Island on June 23.
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