Raided Kansas newspaper is known for aggressively covering small town’s many disputes
Residents left flowers outside the Marion County Record in central Kansas in remembrance of co-owner Joan Meyer, who died a day after police raided the newsroom. - Luke Nozicka/Kansas City Star/TNS
August 16, 2023Frontpage news and politicsSharon Kelsey had come to the Marion County Record on Monday afternoon to place resurrection lilies next to a red newspaper box outside the weekly paper in the small central-Kansas town. Kelsey, a subscriber whose paper gets passed between her sons, was “very upset” about a Friday police search of the Record’s newsroom, which was quickly criticized as the story spread across the U.S. Police also searched the home of the paper’s co-owners, Eric Meyer and his 98-year-old mother, Joan Meyer. She died the next day. “I feel like things in this country aren’t going right,” said Kelsey, a longtime Ma...
