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Suit filed against state 

UKIAH — A group hoping to end logging in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest has sued the state, saying the environmental impact report for the forest was inadequate. 

The Campaign to Restore Jackson State Redwood Forest and the Forests Forever Foundation filed the suit against the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on Thursday in Mendocino County Superior Court. 

The suit claims the environmental impact report for the forest and the management plan that was based on it do not comply. 

Mailing company and manager plead guilty 

SANTA ANA — An Orange County mailing company and one of its managers pleaded guilty to federal charges in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud the U.S. Postal Service. 

Master-Sort Inc. and production manager Jayprakash Dhanak, 51, of Anaheim Hills, entered the pleas to mail fraud on Thursday during a hearing before U.S. District Judge David O. Carter. 

Master-Sort, which presorted mail for other companies and earned refunds based on the amount of metered and permit mail it handled, agreed to repay the $3 million.