Topic - Marion

MARION, Kansas — A Kansas prosecutor said Wednesday that he found insufficient evidence to support the police raid of a weekly newspaper and that all seized material should be returned in a dispute over press freedoms that the White House acknowledged it is watching closely.

Kansas prosecutor says police should return computers and cellphones seized in raid on newspaper →

Marion County Record said in its own published reports that police raided the newspaper’s office on Friday, seizing the newspaper’s computers, phones and file server and the personal cellphones of staff, based on a search warrant.

Police questioned over legality of Kansas newspaper raid in which computers, phones seized →