Last August, Nikki Weigel had never played pickleball. Now, less than a year later, she schedules her job around it.
“I work as a night-shift nurse so I can play pickleball during the day,” the 56-year-old Lawrence resident told the Journal-World recently.
If her enthusiasm sounds a bit extreme, you probably haven’t met many players of the quirkily named sport whose popularity has skyrocketed in recent ...
A woman at the center of a criminal case in which two men are being charged with distribution of a controlled substance leading to death died of acute fentanyl intoxication, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Journal-World.
The woman, Angelyca Leann Cowdin, 23, of Lawrence, died on April 14. She was connected to an address in the 1900 block of Miller Drive where police responded the same day to a ...
On June 5, Lawrence resident Jeremy Campeau suffered a trauma that he will deal with for the rest of his life. His roommate, a 22-year-old friend, shot himself in the head, and Campeau, 26, found the body in their shared apartment.
“There was blood everywhere,” he says. It was horrifying “in every way.” But he did his best to do what needed to be done. He called the police. He underwent an ...
Anyone who saw Kelli Szrot bring down the house in Theatre Lawrence’s 2019 production of “Mamma Mia” will not be surprised that the Lawrence singer has been cast in the theater’s big season finale: “Hello, Dolly!” — the blockbuster 1964 musical with a lead role made famous by Carol Channing and then doubly famous by Barbra Streisand.
“She’s got an outstanding voice,” says director and ...
A federal lawsuit filed against the University of Kansas by a former KU law student who said she had been raped by a fellow student has been dismissed for failure to state a claim.
The lawsuit, filed in October of 2020, followed a yearslong series of events in which the plaintiff reported to Lawrence police in September 2018 that a fellow student had raped her while she was too intoxicated to consent. As the ...
Lawrence resident Scott Sloyer is scheduled to arrive in Przemysl, Poland, this weekend to help feed Ukrainian citizens fleeing Vladimir Putin’s devastating invasion of their country.
What specifically he’ll be doing at the refugee site near Ukraine’s western border isn't yet clear, but the specifics don’t concern Sloyer much.
“If they tell me to go cut potatoes and carrots for 12 hours, that’s ...
