A Kansas town will pay $850K to end a reporter’s lawsuit over a 2023 raid on her paper’s offices

General Washington Archived • August 12, 2026 •

A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom.

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