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It’s the stuff of a totalitarian regime: Police raided the offices and the home of the publisher of a small-town newspaper known for holding public officials accountable.

Joan Meyer, 98-year-old enemy of the people, died in the line of duty on Saturday.

The district attorney of Marion County, Kansas, has withdrawn search warrants that may have violated the First Amendment rights of a small town newspaper.

MARION, Kansas (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor said Wednesday that he found insufficient evidence to support the police raid of a weekly newspaper and that all sei

The sweep of a Marion, Kan., paper was nothing less than an assault on the First Amendment.

MARION, Kansas -- Even without the computers, cellphones and other office equipment taken in a police raid, the new edition of the Marion County Record made it to newsstands Wednesday after a frenzied scramble by the Kansas weekly newspapers small staff.

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The county attorney in Marion County, Kansas, says that police should return seized material to a weekly newspaper raided by officers that has drawn national scrutiny of press freedom

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 forensic expert arrived in Marion on Wednesday to take possession of the items. Publisher Eric Meyer said they would be analyzed to ensure files had not been looked at.