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The lawyer representing the Marion County Record has accused Kansas police of secretly copying data from the newspaper onto an external hard drive and neglecting to disclose the information.

One of my favorite newspaper mottos is “the only newspaper in the world that cares about (insert community name).” Over the years, I have seen various newspapers print it on

On Aug. 11 an attack on free press took place in Marion, Kansas, in which the Marion Police Department raided the town’s newspaper.

Police made copies of all the seized materials in the raid that took place earlier this month. 

If you haven’t seen the national headlines posted by news outlets like The New York Times, CNN and NPR, you may not be aware of the most egregious attack on a newspaper office and the freedom of the press in recent history.  Marion County Record editors and employees were preparing the next issue of their...

Police raiding a newspaper and confiscating reporting material seems like something one would expect to find in a banana-republic, or in a scene from

I never thought I would live to see it happen.

NEW YORK — Tensions between public officials and the press are hardly unusual. To a large extent, it's baked into their respective roles. What's rare in a democratic society is a police raid on a news...

The headline in big letters across the top of the Marion County Record on Wednesday read “SEIZED … but not silenced”.

Police raiding a newspaper and confiscating reporting material seems like something one would expect to find in a banana-republic, or in a scene from