The former Kansas police chief who orchestrated a newspaper raid of the Marion County Record pleaded not guilty Wednesday to illegally ordering a witness to delete text messages between them in the ...

The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper alleged in previously unreleased court documents a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the ...

The texts between Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody and a restaurant owner were allegedly deleted amid widespread scrutiny of the chief's August 2023 raids of the Marion County Record newspaper and the ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the occupation of Kari Newell, a local restaurateur in Marion, Kansas. A Kansas county has apologized and agreed to pay over $3 million to a small ...