MARION, Kan. — The phone conversation between the journalist and the town’s newly hired police chief quickly turned contentious. Tipsters had been telling Deb Gruver that Gideon Cody left the police ...

The family-owned Marion County Record stands out for holding local officials accountable. That role is becoming increasingly rare as local newspapers vanish across the country. After police raided ...

The lawsuit claims that the Marion mayor, police chief and other local officials violated the First Amendment freedom of the press, the Fourth Amendment prohibition on warrantless searches, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cheri Bentz, a staffer at the paper, sits at her desk answering the phone on August 17, 2023, with copies of the edition of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn answers questions during a July 25 interview in her home in Marion. Zorn says police, ...

The Marion, Kansas, police chief who ordered a widely-condemned law enforcement raid on a local newspaper and its publisher’s home this summer has resigned, the city’s mayor said. Marion Police ...

The weekly Kansas newspaper that was subjected to an unprecedented police raid over the summer filed a federal lawsuit against local officials Monday — accusing the “co-conspirators” of seeking ...

Marion County in Kansas has agreed to pay $3 million and apologize after local police raided the county’s weekly newspaper, the Marion County Record, and the home of the paper’s publisher back in 2023 ...

Reporters interview Eric Meyer outside of the Marion County Record office in Marion, Kansas, the site of a 2023 police raid, after an Oct. 7, 2024, court hearing for Gideon Cody, the former Marion ...

The rare search of a newsroom has uncorked a debate in Marion, Kan.: What is a newspaper’s role, anyway? By Kevin Draper Reporting from Marion, Kan. One person said The Marion County Record covered ...

After police raided their newsroom, journalists at the Marion County Record spent all week dealing with its aftermath: interviews with national and international news organizations, conversations with ...

A county in Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3 million and apologize for a 2023 raid on a small-town newspaper. Monday’s agreement stems from the August 2023 search of the Marion County Record, as ...