When Sarah Lynch-Chaput’s beloved dog Sam died, she wanted to do something special in his memory, so she did something she thought he’d love.
“We decided to start fostering to help other dogs that were like him,” she said.
Lynch-Chaput and her husband, Cade Chaput, had adopted Sam, an Australian cattle dog, from a Topeka animal shelter in 2013, when he was 4 or 5 years old. When he died last year, they ...
It’s hard to get Lisa McCleary to say much about the gold medal she won earlier this month at the Special Olympics in Orlando, Florida.
Like any elite competitor, the champion bowler is focused on the next challenge: the 2026 Games.
“I would like to do it again — in four years in Minnesota,” she said.
The 31-year-old Linwood resident who bowls with the Douglas County Jayhawks team at Lawrence’s ...
As recent college graduates head out into the world to begin their professional careers, 22-year-old Ahmad Baset Azizi is moving back in with his mom and dad, and he couldn't feel more successful.
Azizi, who has been separated from his parents for seven years — he in the United States, they in Afghanistan — was recently united with them at Kansas City’s international airport — just in time for his ...
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 ...
