UNBELIEVABLE: Joan meyer - The Untold Story

Kansas county to pay more than $3m over police raiding local newspaper

Marion county agrees to apologize over 2023 raid that led to national outcry over press freedom, said newspaper’s editor

The Guardian - US · Nov 11, 2025

‘The press has basically been under assault’: Kansas county to pay $3m over police raid on local newspaper

The incident ignited a significant outcry regarding press freedom

The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2025

An ex-Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper is charged with obstruction of justice

A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice

The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2024

Police raid on Kansas newspaper appears to have led to a file on the chief, bodycam video shows

Body camera video from a central Kansas police department’s raid of a weekly newspaper shows that an officer rifled through a desk drawer of a reporter who was investigating its chief

The Independent UK · Oct 3, 2023

The police chief who led a raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended

The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2023

Kansas newspaper's lawyer says police didn't follow warrant in last month's newsroom search

The lawyer for a small Kansas newspaper raided by police last month said he believes officers didn't follow the search warrant's requirements to only seize computers believed directly involved in suspected identity theft

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2023

Kansas authorities ordered to destroy electronic copies of newspaper’s files taken during raid

A judge ordered Kansas authorities to destroy all the electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2023

A judge told Kansas authorities to destroy electronic copies of newspaper's files taken during raid

A judge ordered Kansas authorities to destroy all the electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2023

First Thing: Donald Trump to turn himself in at Fulton county jail

Former president had lawyers negotiate booking to take place during prime viewing hours on Thursday to get maximum TV ratings. Plus, could the vagus nerve be the key to depression, obesity, alcoholism – and more?

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2023

‘Get out of my house!’ Video shows 98-year-old mother of Kansas newspaper publisher upset amid raid

A video released by the Marion County Record shows Joan Meyer confronting police who raided her home Aug. 11. Meyer died the next day. Her son, the newspaper’s editor, believes the stress of the raid contributed to her death.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 23, 2023