“Don’t they spit?” is the first question people asked me when I said I was going to hike with llamas. It’s a misconception that llama trainer, owner and hiking leader A.J. Collier wishes didn’t exist.

Wearing her long dark hair in pigtails and a backwards baseball cap, Leah Schuman peered curiously over a low fence into a pen of miniature llamas. “Awww,” she said gently, at once both soothing and ...

LEXINGTON - Girls and guys alike batted long eyelashes Monday on the way to a makeover. It was time to cut nails and hair that had grown long over the winter.