Police Raid on Kansas Newspaper Prompts Outrage as Warrants Withdrawn and Seized Items Returned
- Local police raided a small Kansas newspaper's office and publisher's home, seizing computers and records related to a local business owner's DUI charge.
- The newspaper's co-owner, a 98-year-old woman, died after the raid, which the paper attributed to stress from the incident.
- Prosecutors withdrew the search warrants used in the raids amid national criticism that the actions violated press freedom protections.
- All seized materials have now been returned to the newspaper, but the police department still faces potential lawsuits over the raids.
- The newspaper was investigating sexual misconduct allegations against the town's police chief when the raids occurred.
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