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

The Marion, Kansas, police chief has been suspended after the police raid of a local newspaper and the home of the paper's publisher last month.

The judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the raid of a newspaper office in Marion, Kansas, is facing a complaint about her decision and has been asked by a judicial body to respond, records shared with CNN by the complainant show.

Newly unsealed court records provide insight into how law enforcement justified a highly unusual raid of the office of a Marion, Kansas, newspaper -- a decision that has drawn widespread condemnation from news organizations and press freedom advocates.

The Marion County Record has been "vindicated."

Articles that authorities seized during a police raid on a Kansas newspaper office will be returned, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a statement Wednesday.

Dozens of news organizations on Sunday condemned a police raid on a Kansas newspaper and its publisher's home, sending a letter to the local police department's chief urging him to immediately return all seized materials.

Law enforcement officers in Kansas raided the home and office of a newspaper owner, prompting a sharp rebuke from a press freedom group and raising constitutional questions far beyond the small city in the state.

A South African puppet play, based on a novel by JM Coetzee, is featuring at the Edinburgh Fringe.

An inmate in Indianapolis allegedly used the chain of his handcuffs to choke a sheriff's deputy who died shortly after, court documents obtained by a local station show.