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‘Beyond astonishing’: Marion police chief kept restaurateur updated on raids in real time

‘Beyond astonishing’: Marion police chief kept restaurateur updated on raids in real time

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody spoke with the restaurant owner who accused the local newspaper of criminal activity for checking her driver’s license status shortly after he raided its newsroom in August, commiserating about the situation and saying the search yielded “good evidence.” Bodycam footage from Cody shows a phone call between the then-chief and Kari Newell, owner of two Marion establishments, the day officers searched the Marion County Record, the home of its publisher Eric Meyer and the home of city councilwoman Ruth Herbel. Newell had accused the newspa......
Police accidentally admit to stealing data from Kansas newspaper: lawyer

Police accidentally admit to stealing data from Kansas newspaper: lawyer

Police secretly copied the data that they took from the Marion County Record and then kept it while pretending to hand back the evidence they took, The Kansas Reflector reported citing court filings.

The court filing revealed that among the things listed in the evidence list was the revelation of one extra item: a USB drive revealed as OS Triage Digital DATA. The data copied was about 17 gigabytes.

Screen capture of evidence list from the 8th District Court records. ...

Huffington Post rebuffs union boycott call

Huffington Post rebuffs union boycott call

WASHINGTON — The Huffington Post rebuffed a union boycott call over its practice of using unpaid bloggers, saying most of them are "thrilled to contribute" despite not being paid.