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Sherman Smith

Reporter · US

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Sep 13, 2026
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Jul 10, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · By Sherman Smith

    Governor Candidates Square Off in Debate (opens the original)

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    Candidates for governor engaged in a veritable bare-knuckle brawl when they took the stage Saturday at the Kansas State Fair for a debate punctuated by the chants and jeers of an enthusiastic crowd of dueling supporters. Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, the Republican nominee, and state Sen. Cindy Holscher, the Democratic nominee, largely sidestepped pointed questions from a news media panel as they argued over who was more extreme and how to make life affordable for state residents. The cr

  2. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · By Sherman Smith

    Reporter Settles Lawsuit For $850K (opens the original)

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    Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion to settle her federal lawsuit over the raid. Attorneys for Zorn and the city filed a motion Tuesday, exactly three years after the raid, to dismiss the case. Kansas Reflector reviewed a copy of the settlement agreement, which has not been entered into the court record. Zorn said her long national nightmare is over. “I’ve al

  3. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · By Sherman Smith

    Attorneys Want to Drop Police Chief Client (opens the original)

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    The attorneys for former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody have asked the court to withdraw from his criminal case because of a broken relationship between the attorneys and their client. Cody faces a low-level felony charge of interfering with judicial process and is set to go on trial Aug. 24. He led the police raid on the Marion County Record, the newspaper publisher’s home, and the home of a city councilwoman in August 2023. Special prosecutors Marc Bennett, of Sedgwick County, and Barry Wilke

  4. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · By Sherman Smith

    Perjury Charge Allegedly Fabricated (opens the original)

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    A day before he retired in March 2025, deputy prosecutor Rick James emailed three Salina police officers about “Bunce the Clown.” Micah Bunce was a former city cop now working for the public defender’s office. A few months earlier, Bunce had testified in support of a woman who was caught with a meth pipe in her bra, saying police had field tests that could have determined whether the pipe contained “Shazzle,” street slang for a kind of bath salts, as she claimed. Police officers disputed Bunce’s

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