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Beacon Mental Health representatives are encouraging residents to seek help for mental health concerns before they reach a crisis, emphasizing 988 is a resource for more than suicidal emergencies.

Court filings in a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against Ray County detail competing accounts of what led to former victim advocate Joslynn Marco’s termination in February 2025.

Ray County commissioners recently considered several county matters, including bids for the West 216th Street Bridge project, an appointment to the Planning and Zoning Board and new internet service for the senior center.

Pain has become purpose for one local woman who is building something she hopes will help others find support, understanding and a place to belong.

One of Richmond’s newest teachers is making his mark in the classroom and on the football sidelines, bringing years of experience shaped by education and athletics.

A decades-old mental health partnership between Ray, Clay and Platte counties is set to change as Platte County prepares to withdraw and Ray and Clay counties move forward together.

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For Ray County-area residents, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, unfolded hundreds of miles away but quickly became personal in ways that remain vivid 25 years later.

Ray County Sheriff’s Department reported the following arrests handled recently by the department. Tuesday, August 25 At 2:34 a.m., Neil Allen Depriest, 37, of Orrick, Mo.

There has been much discussion in the news lately about the Lindsay Clancy case and whether she is guilty of murdering her children. It’s not my place to judge because I haven’t followed the case closely enough and don’t have all the facts.