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Kansas teen among 2 injured after semi, farm tractor crash
MARION COUNTY —Two people were injured in an accident just after 1 p.m. Tuesday in Marion County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a White farm tractor driven by Kyson L Gawith, 15, Hillsboro, was southbound on Kansas 15 three miles north of Hillsboro. A southbound 2007 Kenworth semi driven...
Grant will help IdeaTek connect rural Marion, Butler counties
BUHLER, Kan. — IdeaTek, a leading fiber internet provider in Kansas, is taking a significant step toward bridging the digital divide in Marion and Butler counties thanks to a $900,000 grant awarded by the Kansas Office of Broadband Development. The grant will fund the construction of approximately 40 miles...
Crash Involving Truck, Tractor
Two people were transported to hospitals following an accident near Hillsboro involving a farm tractor and a truck. According to the KHP, a tractor driven by 15-year-old Kyson Gawith from Hillsboro, and a Kenworth truck towing a trailer driven by 39-year-old Myrta Lopez of Wichita were traveling on K 15 Highway. The truck was passing the tractor when the farm vehicle started to turn left into a residence and was struck. The truck went off the road and rolled. The tractor came to rest on the highway.
Former reporter settles with police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper, plans scholarship
LAWRENCE, Kansas — Deb Gruver felt heartbroken and violated when police raided the Marion County Record last year. As a reporter at the newspaper, Gruver knew that powerful people in town weren’t fans of the accountability journalism she and her colleagues produced. But when police rolled up to the office on Aug. 11, 2023, she […] The post Former reporter settles with police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper, plans scholarship appeared first on Nebraska Examiner.
Former reporter settles with police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper, plans scholarship
LAWRENCE — Deb Gruver felt heartbroken and violated when police raided the Marion County Record last year. As a reporter at the newspaper, Gruver knew that powerful people in town weren’t fans of the accountability journalism she and her colleagues produced. But when police rolled up to the office on Aug. 11, 2023, she didn’t […] The post Former reporter settles with police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper, plans scholarship appeared first on Kansas Reflector.
Brickbat: Hot Off the Press
City officials in Marion, Kansas, have agreed to pay $235,000 to remove the former police chief from a federal lawsuit brought by Deb Gruver, a former reporter with the Marion County Record. Last year, police raided the newspaper's offices, seizing computers, the newspaper's file server, and even personal cellphones. Police also raided the home of the newspaper's owners. The raid came after local business owner Kari Newell acknowledged at a city council meeting that she had continued to drive after her license was suspended for a DUI conviction. Newell accused the newspaper of illegally obtaining her driving record. The newspaper said it received a tip about the DUI and confirmed the claims through public records but decided not to publish the story, only reporting on the charges after Newell brought it up in a public meeting. But Chief Gideon Cody, who led the raid, claimed to have evidence that the paper, one of its reporters, and a city council member had committed computer crimes to access Newell's driving record. A local judge signed a warrant to that effect, which the county attorney later withdrew. Gruver's lawsuit is one of five federal lawsuits spawned by the raid, and she is still suing the Marion County sheriff and the county prosecutor.
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