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Alaska trooper: Politics slowed Johnston drug arrest
usatoday.com - 1/6/2009
Alaska trooper: Politics slowed Johnston drug arrest
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Sherry Johnston — whose son Levi Johnston is engaged to Palin's daughter, Bristol — was arrested Dec. 18 on six felony drug counts. She is accused of selling Oxycontin, a strong prescription painkiller. Investigator Kyle Young sent an e-mail to the Public Safety Employees Association saying the ...

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adn.com - 1/6/2009
Levi Johnston quits oil field job
— adn.com — Levi Johnston, the Wasilla teenager planning to marry Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has quit his North Slope oil field job over questions about his eligibility to participate in an electrical apprenticeship program, Johnston's father said today. (more) Levi Johnston quits oil field job

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Alaska's news and information source | New poll shows Palin would trail Murkowski big in a ...
— ktuu.com — Monday, January 5, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Even with the last election barely two months in the rearview mirror, some in the national media have speculated that Gov. Sarah Palin might make a run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 as a prelude to running ... (more) Alaska's news and information source | New poll shows ...

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Trooper, union say politics delayed Johnston drug case: Top Stories
adn.com - 1/4/2009
Trooper, union say politics delayed Johnston drug case: Top Stories
— adn.com — A Mat-Su drug investigator and the union representing Alaska State Troopers are alleging political meddling in the Sherry Johnston drug case, including a delay in serving the search warrant because of the November election. Johnston is the mother of ... (more) Trooper, union say politics delayed Johnston drug case: ...

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Media Continues to Smear Sarah Palin Without Apology
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ...   Young wrote that the case ‘...was not allowed to progress in a normal fashion, the search warrant service WAS delayed because of the pending election.'  And the media ran with it - to the tune of 417 articles on a Google news search of the terms ‘Kyle Young and Sarah Palin' this morning.  Coverage of this unsubstantiated allegation can be seen at MSNBC, CBS News, the New York Times, Newsday, the Washington Post, USA Today, and the Dallas Morning News, mostly via the tabloid liberal news agency known as the ...

Lies, d*mn lies and the Alaska Daily News
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... And the media ran with it - to the tune of 417 articles on a Google news search of the terms ‘Kyle Young and Sarah Palin’ this morning.  Coverage of this unsubstantiated allegation can be seen at MSNBC, CBS News, the New York Times, Newsday, the Washington Post, USA Today, and the Dallas Morning News, mostly via the tabloid liberal news agency known as the Associated Press.  And that is just to name a few. But the union has changed its tune. Public Safety Employees Association president ...

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