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PLEASANT VALLEY – Sheriff Will Akin opened the Community Drug Education Summit with the reason for calling together law enforcers, mental health specialists and the public: “We are investigating an unprecedented number of cases involving deaths due to drug overdoses. We’re talking about teens and young adults here.” A DRUG HUB Poorly made, deadly drugs – primarily fentanyl, a synthetic opioid – flow into Ray, Clay and Jackson counties.

RICHMOND – Ongoing maintenance problems at the Ray County Jail continue going on. Problems include water coming up through the poorly constructed jail floor, water dripping down through the ceiling’s electric light fixtures, poor video monitoring, sheet-metal walls that can be torn into strips to use as knives, an unreliable heating and air conditioning system, poor ventilation and too little re quired access to natural light.

HIGGINSVILLE – Shooting issues hurt the Spartans in their 36-33 nail-biting loss Tuesday to Odessa in the Husker Classic at Lafayette County of Higginsville, Richmond varsity girls basketball coach Chad Snyder and senior post player Emmalea Kilpatrick agreed.