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The Marion County attorney said his review found "insufficient evidence exists to establish a legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized."

Court documents obtained Monday by the KSHB 41 I-Team from Marion County shows the list of items seized during a raid of the Marion County Record newspaper last Friday by Marion, Kansas, Police.

The E.W. Scripps Company, on behalf of KSHB-TV and KMCI-TV , has co-authored a letter to the police chief of Marion, Kansas, condemning a raid at the newspaper offices of the Marion County Record.

Eric Meyer says the raid was due to his paper's coverage of a local businesswoman and the local police chief, and stressed his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her death.

The funeral for a fallen police officer, an investigation of Jackson County property assessments and a raid of a small Kansas Newspaper top this week's news.

Law enforcement officers in Kansas raided the home and office of a newspaper owner, prompting a sharp rebuke from a press freedom group.