I'm not having that exact issue, but I'm unable to buy newspapers now. I've bought the one in Valentine, but no other town will let me. He stands there, holds up the newspaper and says his lien, but no prompt to purchase when I focus on him.
I don't like how it works either and seems way too sensitive or not clear in what things will trigger it. I jumped out of a window, which was reported for vandalism, then the cops showed up and killed me. I had to pay the bounty after that.
It also doesn't seem all that realistic for some of the quests you stumble upon either. Someone was locked in a basement and asked me to help them, but the only way to get to them was to hold the store clerk up (rob) or trespass, which then automatically gives you a bounty or results in them calling for the Sheriff. You can't report the crime to the Sheriff or go about it any other way, as far as I could tell.
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