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recognized county agencies and their Community Partner Award for their help with the Attorney General’s Safe Kits Initiative – Ray County had 10 agencies receive the award. In 2019, AGO launched the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence (SAFE) Kit Initiative to inventory, test, and track the state’s high number of untested sexual assault kits with the ultimate goal of clearing the state’s backlog and obtaining justice for victims.

Seeking mental health options within the local schools, Director of Special Programs Cindy Naber, Process Coordinator Amy Osborne, and School Psychological Examiner Gretchen Edwards introduced Therapylog to the Richmond R-XVI School Board last week. After much consideration, the board approved and signed the free counseling program.

A jail trustee was caught without Ray County Sheriff Scott Childers’ permission outside the jail with his girlfriend on Sep. 11.

The Ray County audit was released earlier this month by Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick and the county was rated “poor.” Within the 27 pages of the audit report, the “Citizens Summary” described eight different findings according to the report, as the following:

An article published in the Oct. 13 edition of Richmond News incorrectly spelled the name Dr.