A Marion County Record reporter has filed a federal lawsuit against a town and local officials for $950,000 in damages after a police raid on the newspaper's offices in 2023.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The publisher of the long-standing Marion County Record said his paper was raided this week by the Marion Police Department, who took computers, servers and cell phones.

Marion County, Kansas, has said it will return evidence seized in a controversial police raid of a local newspaper after an attorney review.. A search warrant for the newspaper's offices had been ...

MARION, COUNTY, Kansas (KCTV) — 98-year-old Joan Meyer collapsed and died in her home Saturday. The newspaper she co-owned is reporting a police raid the day before may have played a role in her ...

The Marion County Record, a small Kansas newspaper, was raided by the county’s entire police force, who executed an illegal search warrant on its offices and the co-owners’ home and seized ...

Insufficient evidence to support Kansas newspaper raid, prosecutor says 00:29. The prosecutor in Marion County, Kansas, said Wednesday that police should return all seized material to a weekly ...

Marion County Record. Law enforcement raided the Marion County Record’s office and the home publisher Meyer shared with his 98-year-old mother, Joan Meyer — who died just 24 hours later from ...

Journalists at the Marion County Record worked late into the night to publish their first issue since the widely-criticized raid. “SEIZED … but not silenced,” its headline read.

Then outrage turned into heartbreak. The day after she suffered the local police ransacking her newspaper and home, Joan Meyer, the 98-year-old co-owner of the Marion County Record, passed away.

The raid of the newspaper, The Marion County Record, has drawn condemnation from First Amendment advocates. By Kevin Draper and Benjamin Mullin Kevin Draper reported from Marion, Kan., and Ben ...

The Marion County Record, a newspaper that reports on a small town of less than 2,000 people on the western edge of the Flint Hills in Kansas, turned into a First Amendment cause célèbre in the ...