Former police chief charged with obstruction after newsroom raid

A special prosecutor in Kansas filed a felony interference with a judicial process charge against ex-Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody on Monday. The state accused Cody of inducing a witness to withhold information after he raided the office of a local newspaper, The Marion County Record, along with the home of its owners last August. One of the owners, 98-year-old Joan Meyer, died of a heart attack the day after the raid. Her son and paper co-owner, Eric Meyer, claimed the stress of the raid triggered the pulmonary event. Marion...