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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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John Hanna and Margery A. Beck

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

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The entire five-member police department of a small town in Kansas raided the office of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher, seizing computers, cell phones and other reporting materials and effectively shutting down publication.

The weekly newspaper’s 98-year-old co-owner – apparently overwhelmed by the incident – collapsed and died the following day, according to the Marion County Record.

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