Marion, Kansas resolves raid lawsuit with $850,000 payout to ex-reporter
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Marion, Kansas approved an $850,000 settlement with former Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn to end her federal lawsuit over the 2023 police raid on the newspaper’s offices, underscoring ongoing concerns about press freedoms and law enforcement actions against publishers; this brings the town’s total related settlements to over $3 million across five lawsuits (including a $600,000 payout to Zorn previously), with some claims still pending and a pretrial hearing planned for October.
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