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MARION, Kan.—The initial online search of a state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid a local weekly newspaper was legal, a spokesperson for the agency that maintains the site said Monday, as newly released video showed the publisher’s 98-year-old mother protesting a search of their home.…

The 98-year-old co-owner of a Kansas newspaper berated officers, calling them "a--holes" and challenged whether their mother loves them during an unprecedented police raid of her home that allegedly led to her death the next day.

In the hours before 98-year-old Marion County Record co-owner Joan Meyer died — of a broken heart, a lifelong friend told me in a letter — she asked her son

The paper’s attorney rejected law enforcement's claim that the paper committed identity theft, saying a reporter conducted a legal search on the Department of Revenue’s website to verify a tip. The Marion County Attorney withdrew the search warrants last week, citing insufficient grounds for the search.

MARION, Kan. (AP) — The initial online search of a state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid a local weekly newspaper was legal, a spokespe

Video shows police raiding the home of a 98-year-old newspaper co-owner who reportedly died the following day.

The tiny Marion County Record has seen support from a wide range of organizations after police seized computers and equipment The post WGA East: Cops Who Raided Kansas Newspaper Must be ‘Held Accountable’ appeared first on TheWrap.

It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors. Yet

Get out of my house! Video shows 98-year-old mother of Kansas newspaper publisher upset amid raid

The excessive heat baking Kansas will continue through Thursday night... police investigate a fatal shooting outside a Pittsburg bar... many Kansas families will get extra food benefits this school year... and state and local officials consider adding express toll lanes to K-10. More details inside.