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Copies of the Aug. 16 edition of the Marion County Record rest on a countertop in the news

One fight pending before the Supreme Court now is whether the Joe Biden administration legally can push private organizations to lobby social media companies to censor opinions Biden doesn't like.

Affidavits from a raid on a newspaper in Kansas suggest an abuse of power from a police chief and magistrate.

Affidavits signed by a police chief and magistrate to warrant the raid on the Marion County Record were supposed to provide evidence that a reporter committed a crime. Instead, they serve as evidence that the local officials abused their power.

TOPEKA — Affidavits signed by a police chief and magistrate to warrant the raid on the Marion County Record were supposed to provide evidence that a reporter committed a crime.

Editor's Note: While what is happening in Marion is disturbing to us at the Free Press, we decided it best to allow an unbiased news source to deliver the information about the police raid on the Marion County Record. Historically, there has been an obvious tension between our two news organizations

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Marion County Record of Marion, Kansas, serves a rural county of about 12,000 residents. Marion County is approximately 50 miles

TOPEKA — Marion police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home by pointing to a loophole in federal law that protects journalists from

98-year old Joan Meyer, “stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief,” had collapsed and died.

The 98-year-old co-owner of a Kansas newspaper that had his home searched by police died on Saturday from stress related to the incident