If you caught her pointing her phone at her meal at local restaurant, you might assume Lisa Nguyen is just a typical member of Gen Y or Z.
But those clips she's capturing with her iPhone 14 Pro Max are...
Grace Sharkey was first introduced to the sport of competitive cup stacking in gym class as a first grader at Belinder Elementary. It didn't interest her too much.
"I kind of put the cups away in first grade," she said....
Over the past five years, a group of Roeland Park residents have worked with dogged determination to raise money to fund improvements for a grassy patch of parkland in the middle of the city.
They've organized 15 events, securing donations...
Making your way through high school can be challenging enough when you have a reliable roof over your head, two involved parents and a stable home life.
It can seem nearly impossible when you're homeless.
So when Daelyn Whitby walks across...
Kip Niven, a Prairie Village native who followed his dreams of becoming an actor to Hollywood before returning home to become a pillar of the local theatre scene, died Monday of a heart attack at the age of 73.
Niven...
Andrea Warren, an award-winning author of eight nonfiction history books, is publishing her ninth — this time about a boy who was imprisoned in a Japanese-American concentration camp during World War II.
A Johnson County resident for nearly 30 years...
Dorwin Lamkin, the Navy veteran who was a driving force behind the creation of Pearl Harbor Memorial Park in Mission, died Sunday at the age of 96.
Lamkin, who was serving as a corpsman on the USS Nevada on Dec....
Being a woman in pediatrics may not seem particularly noteworthy in 2018. But when Kathleen Shaffer, MD, started her career back in 1982, she was the only female physician in private practice in the field in Johnson County.
And while a...
Friday evening was a flurry of activity on the grounds of Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park in Lenexa as nearly 200 teams began preparing for the Great Lenexa BBQ Battle. Burgeoning BBQ pitmasters lit the tinder in their smokeboxes while teammates...
A few years ago, Fairway native Ellie Smart thought she was done with diving for good.
Since falling in love with the sport at age 5 at Carriage Club, Smart had been working toward bigger and bigger goals for herself...
PBS has announced is will have a national broadcast of a new documentary exploring attitudes toward death and dying that prominently features a Prairie Village surgeon who died of prostate cancer in 2014.
Jeffrey Piehler, MD, generated a national discussion...
Henry Fortunato, whose love of local history and dedication to preserving it have transformed the Indian Creek Trail in Johnson County, died Monday at the age of 62.
A native of Long Island, N.Y., Fortunato graduated from Georgetown University in...
