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Police raid on office of Marion County Record drew widespread condemnation by press freedom advocates

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.

(CNN) — After days of national controversy over the raid of a small town’s newspaper office and the publisher’s home, the items seized will be returned, the Kansas<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/items-seized-in-a-police-raid-at-the-marion-county-record-newspaper-in-kansas-will-be-returned-officials-say/">Read More</a>

Police officers had been seen on video laughing and making jokes as they took away the local newspaper’s computer towers.

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.

MARION, Kan. — A Kansas prosecutor said Wednesday that he found insufficient evidence to support the police raid of a weekly newspaper and that all seized material should be returned in a dispute over press freedoms that the White House acknowledged it is watching closely. “This administration has been vocal

By Whitney Wild, Sarah Moon and Holly Yan, CNN

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.

Sharon Kelsey had come to the Marion County Record on Monday afternoon to place resurrection lilies next to a red newspaper box outside the weekly paper in the small central-Kansas

After days of national controversy over the raid of a small town’s newspaper office and the publisher’s home, the items seized will be returned, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation announced