Kansas county apologizes over raid on a small-town newspaper, agrees to pay over $3 million

The Marion County Record editor's mother Joan, who co-owned the paper, died of a heart attack the day after the raid.
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Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an ...