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KENTON COUNTY, Ky. (ENQUIRER) - Prosecutors have agreed to drop the charges against a CityBeat journalist who was arrested while covering a July demonstration on the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, according to our media partners at the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Kenton County District Judge Ken Easterling ordered on Nov. 12 that the misdemeanor charges against CityBeat investigative reporter Madeline Fening be dropped with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled.

As part of the agreement between prosecutors and Fening’s attorneys, she has acknowledged that probable cause existed for her July 17 arrest by Covington police. She was facing charges, including failure to disperse, disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly.

Fening was a

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