According to the paper's recent reporting, a prominent local businessperson, Kari Newell, had been driving while her licence was suspended for drunk driving, wi

According to the paper's recent reporting, a prominent local businessperson, Kari Newell, had been driving while her licence was suspended for drunk driving, with the knowledge of local police. http://marionrecord.com/dispatch/police_raid_newspaper_office_homes_seizing_computers_and_phones+5447raid+506f6c6963652072616964206e6577737061706572206f66666963652c20686f6d65732c207365697a696e6720636f6d70757465727320616e642070686f6e6573 http://marionrecord.com/dispatch/police_raid_newspaper_offic... Previously she had accused the newspaper of obtaining the information illegally. http://marionrecord.com/dispatch/restaurateur_accuses_paper_councilwoman+5447newell+52657374617572617465757220616363757365732070617065722c20636f756e63696c776f6d616e http://marionrecord.com/dispatch/restaurateur_accuses_paper_... There's also a headline from their last week's issue, "Media ejected from open forum" that seems likely to be related. Google's cache of the article is at: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fstarj.com%2Fdirect%2Fmedia_ejected_at_open_forum_%2B5446forum%2B4d6564696120656a6563746564206174206f70656e20666f72756d20 https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3... so I'll give a relevant quote for when that expires: > Two representatives of the news media were ordered by Marion police chief Gideon Cody to leave a public reception Tuesday for U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner. > Cody’s directions came at the behest of Kari Newell, proprietor of Chef’s Plate in Marion’s Historic Elgin Hotel and its coffee shop across the street, Kari’s Kitchen, where the event was taking place. > Cody said that Newell asked that Record publisher Eric Meyer and Record reporter Phyllis Zorn be evicted before LaTurner arrived. > Moments before Cody ordered Meyer and Zorn to leave, Newell had told Zorn: “I will not have members of the media in my establishment. You have to leave.”