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Police in Marion, Kansas, shook the foundations of American journalism last Friday when they raided the offices of the 154-year-old Marion County Record, seizing computers, ...

Readers of the Marion County Record in rural Kansas won’t be reading 98-year-old Joan Meyer’s folksy “Memories” column this week. Or ever again.

The advocacy group for press freedom has called for a “thorough investigation” into the Marion, Kan., Police Department after its raid at a local newspaper, which many claim was a violation of state and federal laws.

The police raid on The Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper in Kansas, has more than a faint smell of fascism.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for an investigation into the raid at the Marion County Record, the Kansas newspaper at the center of a sharply criticized police investigation.

Marion County attorney said a review of police seizures from the newspaper found “insufficient evidence exists to establish a legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized."

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

Luke Nozicka/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(MARION, Kan.) -- Marion County, Kansas, has said it will return evidence seized in a controversial police raid of a local newspaper after an attorney review. A search warrant for the newspapers offices had been acquired based on a probable cause affidavit alleging that computer crimes had been committed at the location. However, Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey wrote in a statement Wednesday that he had come to the conclus...

A Kansas prosecutor says that he found insufficient evidence to support the police raid of a weekly newspaper and that all seized material should be returned in a case the White House says raises concerns over press freedoms.

A small newspaper and a police department in Kansas are at the center of a dispute over freedom of speech after police raided the office of the local newspaper and