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Warrant for Kansas newspaper raid withdrawn by prosecutor for ‘insufficient evidence’
Front pages hang on a wall at the Marion County Record, where police served a search warrant Friday. - Luke Nozicka/The Kansas City Star/TNS

Warrant for Kansas newspaper raid withdrawn by prosecutor for ‘insufficient evidence’

The prosecutor in Marion County has withdrawn the search warrant executed at a small-town Kansas newspaper that police raided Friday, the paper’s lawyer said Wednesday, which the Kansas Bureau of Investigation soon confirmed. All electronic devices seized by police will be returned to the Marion County Record, said Bernie Rhodes, a Kansas City-based attorney for the Record who also represents The Star. “We have stopped the hemorrhaging,” Rhodes told The Star. “But it does nothing about taking care of the damage that has already occurred from the violation of the First Amendment in the first pl...

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