Police raided a smalltown newspaper in Kansas over fears it was about to report the police chief's alleged sex-pest past and a politically-connected restauranteur's drunk-driving conviction. This hamfisted attack on the press resulted in the newspaper's elderly co-owner dying of shock hours later, widespread condemnation and everyone in the world finding out about the warrant-approving judge's own history of DUI arrests. — Read the rest
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