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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
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Fireworks erupt over the Mississippi River during the annual Fireworks on the Mississippi show in Baton Rouge on Saturday.
HAVING A BLAST Celebrating a birthday 250 years in the making is always a big event, and around the Baton Rouge 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
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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. Murrill 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 morning that stayed the indictment. The court issued the stay order on a 5-2 vote,
ä See MURRILL, page 5A
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Crowds gather during the fireworks show along the levee downtown on Saturday.
‘Once in a lifetime’ Plan to restore wild Chandeleur Islands moves forward BY MIKE SMITH
La. native behind U.S. Mint’s 250 commemoration Special coins flip the script on traditional pieces
tions, 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 BY MARK BALLARD of coins that remember Staff writer scenes from American Hollis WASHINGTON — While taxpayers are history. “The Mint this year is making more spending tens of millions of dollars on America’s 250th anniversary celebra- coin design changes than you’ve ever
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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 is providing not just an opportunity to tell America’s story on special editions of nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollar and dollar coins. The historic milestone also
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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 seagrasses. That’s why, despite their remoteness and accelerating vanishing act, the state wants to
ä See COINS, page 7A
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