From Courtney Hazlett at MSNBC: MSNBC is <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28424559/">reporting</a> that the Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston may receive up to $300,000 for the first pictures of their son Tripp.

  The mother of Bristol Palin’s boyfriend sent text messages discussing drug transactions less than a month after the young woman’s mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was nominated as the Republican vice presidential candidate, according to court documents filed this week.

From The Anchorage Daily News: A 42-year-old Wasilla woman was arrested Thursday at her home by Alaska State Troopers with a search warrant in an undercover drug investigation.