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FILE - A stack of the Marion County Record sits in the back of the newspaper's building, awaiting unbundling, sorting and distribution, Aug. 16, 2023, in Marion, Kan. A former reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper has agreed to accept $235,000 to settle part of her federal lawsuit over a police raid on the paper that made a small town the focus of a national debate over press freedoms. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper

By John Hanna and Heather Hollingsworth - Associated Press

This screen grab of security camera footage provided by Eric Meyer shows his mother, Joan Meyer, ordering police officers to get out of her house as they searched it on Aug. 11, 2023, in Marion, Kan. Joan Meyer, who was 98, died the next day. Her son, Marion County Record Editor and Publisher Eric Meyer, blames his mother's death on the stress caused by the search. (Eric Meyer via AP)

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

By John Hanna and Jim Salter - Associated Press