Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still from Seized by Sharon Liese, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | ...

Officials in Marion County, Kansas, agreed Monday to pay over $3 million in damages following a police raid on a local newspaper and two homes in August 2023. The newspaper, the Marion County Record, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After more than two years of work, an Overland Park filmmaker will see her documentary premiere on a grand stage: the 2026 ...

Sundance film festival: the story of the Marion County Record and the forces that tried to destroy it is expanded for a charming, and concerning, look at freedom of the press On 11 August 2023, police ...

Sharon Liese, formerly of Saratoga Springs, brings “Seized” to Sundance. Her film probes a 2023 Kansas newspaper raid and press-freedom stakes. Sharon Liese, center, a Saratoga Springs High School and ...

"Seized" tells the story of the Marion County Record. It will "make people think about what journalism really is and what people really want journalism to be," its director and producer said. LAWRENCE ...

The 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record newspaper is the subject of the new documentary “Seized,” premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25. Overland Park filmmaker Sharon Liese ...

The Marion, Kansas, police chief who ordered a widely-condemned law enforcement raid on a local newspaper and its publisher’s home this summer has resigned, the city’s mayor said. Marion Police ...

STARTING TODAY, AN INTERNATIONAL SPOTLIGHT WILL SHINE ON A STORY THAT GETS TO THE HEART OF FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS, ALL SPARKED BY AUGUST 2023. POLICE IN MARION, NORTH OF WICHITA, RAIDED THE OFFICES OF ...