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Police chief’s botched newspaper raid costs town $3M settlement after 98-year-old dies from raid stress

Ellsworth Toohey
Nov 12, 2025
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A small Kansas town just learned an expensive lesson about press freedom after agreeing to pay over $3 million for what prosecutors now admit was an unjustified police raid on a local newspaper, reports AP. The Marion County Record‘s offices and publisher Eric Meyer’s home were searched in August 2023 over allegations that…

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