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AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. - A prison inmate due to be released Thursday after serving a drug sentence never made it to freedom because he asked friends to bring illegal narcotics when they picked him up, officials said. Wesley Jason Wayland, 35, was arrested Thursday at the Airway Heights Corrections Center and faces new drug counts. Wayland was finished serving time for drug possession and bail jumping in Benton County. But prison officials overheard him telling associates to bring drugs when they picked him up. When two of his friends showed up at the prison, law enforcement officers were waiting. Pamela...

Dowd doubts: In our business, when you goof, you fix it 07/27/03Editor Mobile Register The following is an e-mail that I sent to Gail Collins, editorial page editor of The New York Times, this past Monday. Dear Ms. Collins: Now that the Times is settling in with a new editor, I need clarification on a matter that came up during all the post-Jayson Blair newsroom tumult. As editor of the Mobile Register, I subscribe to The New York Times Wire Service. Until earlier this summer, we printed Maureen Dowd's columns on our op-ed pages. We stopped running her column after...

I have formed a Yahoo discussion group, New Jersey U.S. Senate Race Watch, which will be singularly devoted to following all developments in this contest and the court cases surrounding it. I invite all interested parties to join. I'm especially looking for all stories relating to this to be posted. Please join ! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewJerseyUSSenateRaceWatch/

New Jersey Republican U.S. Senate candidate Doug Forrester demanded Sunday that a federal judge unseal a letter from prosecutors who wrote earlier this year that they believed federal witness David Chang had testified truthfully in their bribery probe against Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J. "A letter was written by the prosecutors who were involved in the investigation [and they] were asking for leniency for David Chang on the grounds that David Chang was telling the truth in a lot of very important respects," Forrester told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "Mr. Torricelli's lawyers are trying to keep that letter secret," he complained,...