RACES, the Urbana-based agency offering help for rape victims in Champaign, Douglas, Ford and Piatt counties, has a new executive director, who vows to restore the services it was forced to cut due to the state budget impasse.

Staff cutbacks and emergency fundraising have enbabled Rape Advocacy, Counseling & Education Services --- RACES, for short --- to stay open, despite the loss of state funding due to the state budget impasse.

A UVA fraternity is reinstated after an article published by the Rolling Stone was discredited   Executive Director of Rape, Advocacy Counseling and Education Services Kerri True-Funk says there’s a lesson  about how sexual assault victims’ stories are told.