Police in Marion, Kan., raided the lone paper in town. Amidst a national outcry of violations of press freedom, new details suggest the police chief may have been the focus of the paper's reporting.

After police raided their newsroom, journalists at the Marion County Record spent all week dealing with its aftermath: interviews with national and international news organizations, conversations with ...

The police chief whose “Gestapo”-style raid on a small-town newspaper has become the focus of national outrage was being investigated by its reporters over claims of alleged sexual misconduct. Gideon ...