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MARION, Kan.—A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and, in the publisher’s view, stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her weekend death. Several press freedom watchdogs…

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.

MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper's office and the home of its owner

Advocacy groups and reporters across the United States have sounded the alarm throughout the weekend about a legally dubious police raid on Friday targeting the Marion County Record office and the publisher's Kansas home in an alleged identity theft investigation—events that the newspaper said contr...

A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism after it raided the offices of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher and owner.