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Political attacks on the free press continue to ratchet up mistrust of traditional media. Former President Donald Trump’s frequent cries of “fake news” and his insistence that reporters are “the enemy of the people” are now a standard counter for politicians seeking to avoid accountability. In this environment, it’s perhaps easy to see how a small town police chief might consider raiding the local newspaper as bearing little consequence.

A small Kansas newspaper reporter, subjected to a police raid earlier this month, filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief on Wednesday.

Besides adding to the general toxicity and sense of aggrievement, it only makes the martyred recipient more convinced.

A police raid of the Marion County Record in Kansas, along with the home of the newspapers editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, and his 98-year-old mother, became a national story

A newspaper reporter files a lawsuit against the Marion police chief for seizing her personal cell phone during a police raid... fewer Kansas students are eating school lunches... and a KCK police officer is cleared in a fatal shooting. These stories and more can be found inside.

''Police Chief Gideon Cody arrived at the Marion County Record and handed a copy of a search warrant to Deb Gruver, the veteran reporter who had questioned him about alleged misconduct at his previous job."

Deb Gruver, a reporter for the Marion County Record, has sued Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody for his role in an Aug. 11 raid of the newspaper office. TOPEKA — Police Chief Gideon Cody arrived at the Marion County Record and handed a copy of a search warrant to Deb Gruver, the veteran reporter w

A Kansas prosecutor says a police raid on a small weekly newspaper wasn’t supported by evidence. The newspapers staff scrambled to print the new edition Wednesday without their cellphones and

Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic copies they made of a small newspaper's files when police raided its office this month.

A judge ordered Kansas authorities to destroy all the electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month