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Editor’s note: This story is the first in a two-part series examining information Missouri health leaders recently discussed about sweeping federal Medicaid cuts. Part One details the proposed reductions, potential impacts on rural hospitals and urgent warnings from administrators across the region.

Following a leadership shake-up at Ray County Hospital and Healthcare, the organization is seeking community input on local health needs through a new survey designed to inform services and resources for years to come.

Planned training for road crews, equipment maintenance and empty vending machines complaints, as well as a lack of bids for county services combined to create a busy slate of issues for county leaders.

In rural Missouri, where stray animals often outnumber shelter spaces and pet owners struggle with rising costs, one woman decided prevention was the only way to break the cycle. SNIP ‘EM Founder and President Amy Pearson has spent the past year growing a grassroots effort into a multi-county nonprofit organization dedicated to ending pet overpopulation one surgery at a time.

A Hardin man has been granted a bond modification after being held without bond on a felony charge stemming from what deputies described as a serious safety risk. James A.

Ray County Sheriff’s Department arrests from June 16, 2025 to June 20, 2025. Monday, June 16 At 2:44 p.m., Alisha Marie Halstenberg, 25, of Gladstone, Mo., was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia.