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Part of the debate centers around Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody’s reasons for the raid.

A police chief was not only on legally shaky ground when he ordered the raid of a weekly newspaper, experts said, but it may have been a criminal violation of civil rights.

A central Kansas police chief was not only on legally shaky ground when he ordered the raid of a weekly newspaper, experts said, but it may have been a criminal violation of civil rights

Both the western and eastern portions of the city are seeing a wave of redevelopment and new projects.

It is less than a week away from the first day of classes but there are still 30 unfilled certified teaching positions.

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

Both the western and eastern portions of the city are seeing a wave of redevelopment and new projects.

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

NEW YORK — Tensions between public officials and the press are hardly unusual. To a large extent, it’s baked into their respective roles.

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 the home of its owner and publisher. Marion police confiscated computers and cellphones from the publisher and staff of the Marion County Record in the Friday raid. The police searches were apparently prompted by a complaint from a local restaurant owner who accused the newspaper of invading her privacy after it obtained copies of her...