Attorney General Liz Murrill is under investigation by an Orleans Parish grand jury. Earlier this year, Murrill sent letters to Mayor Helena Moreno, five city council members and Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams, threatening to remove them from their offices over a special election for a newly-merged clerk of criminal and civil courts. Murrill said she stands by the letters she wrote.
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The number of Republican voters in the state has surpassed the number of registered Democrats for the first time in Louisiana’s modern history, according to a monthly report from the Secretary of State’s office. John Couvillon of JMC Analytics and polling says the number of registered no-party voters is 820-thousand and growing.
Former Southern baseball coach and player Roger Cador passed away yesterday. The New Roads native led the Jaguars baseball program for 33 years and transformed Southern baseball into an HBCU powerhouse. Southern Board of Supervisors Chair Tony Clayton says he asked Cador one day how he could recruit the nation’s top prospects like Golden Spikes winner Rickie Weeks.
LDWF announced a special increase of the red snapper bag limit to five per person for the Fourth of July weekend. The declaration of emergency will be in effect tomorrow through this Sunday before reverting back to the normal four-fish limit. LDWF Secretary Tyler Bosworth says he hopes fishing is on the agenda for your Independence Day weekend.