Kansas town will pay $850K to end reporter’s lawsuit over 20230

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• August 12, 2026

TOPEKA, Kan. — 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. Now-retired Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn said in her lawsuit that