Small Town Kansas Newspaper Crackdown Earns Headlines Across Globe

We're hoping against hope that this story sparks more interest in community newspaper AND maybe we'll see a movie version wherein Kevin Bacon reprises his Footloose dancing . . . Only this time through a rural newsroom in between the farm report.

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The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” in the Friday raid, the newspaper’s owner and publisher, Eric Meyer said . . .

Meyer said the police took action because a confidential source leaked sensitive information about a local restaurant owner, who allegedly took offense.

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