Hair

ST. GEORGE — Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a thief who cut off a horse’s tail in what’s being called the first known case of its kind in Utah.

Eddie Zawacki, of Washington County’s Dammeron Valley, said the tail of her horse Naja was cut just below the muscle and bone section this week, netting the thief about 2 feet of hair.

HURRICANE — A Southern Utah student has been removed from classes after administrators found her dyed hair color too distracting.

Rylee MacKay, a 15-year-old student at Hurricane Middle School in Hurricane, said she was sent to the office Wednesday after an administrator said her hair looked purple and pink in the sunlight.

Under Washington County School District policy, hair “should be within the spectrum of color that grows naturally,” and administrators can decide whether a color is too distracting.

LAYTON -- Reading, writing and arithmetic, followed by a haircut.

It may seem unusual, but some lucky students at Crestview Elementary School got to pause from their studies Wednesday to take advantage of the free haircuts offered by students in the cosmetology program at Davis Applied Technology College in Kaysville.

You tell yourself you aren't going to do it.

You say you're better than that, you're stronger -- that no matter what, you simply refuse to sink to their level.

And then it happens. Somewhere between the good intentions and the naive promises, you end up going all negative with your campaigning.

I'm afraid we've reached that point with the current race we've got brewing here in the Top o' Utah.

Remember Harold Camping, the Christian radio broadcaster who made headlines after calculating that the world was going to end on May 21 of this year?

Well, he's at it again. And this time, he really means it.

Apparently, Mr. Camping is undeterred by the fact that seemingly nothing out of the ordinary happened on that particular spring day when all heaven was supposed to break loose. (Well, a Utah horse was euthanized that fateful Saturday -- the first fatality in the state linked to the Equine Herpes Virus -- but that hardly seems apocalyptic.) Nevertheless, Camping continues to insist that a spiritual Rapture did occur on May 21, and that the final game-over event -- wherein the world is utterly destroyed -- is still right on schedule for Oct. 21, 2011.

HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- With the help of a few bald co-workers, Edna Maggard says she will fight to survive cancer until the bitter end.

Maggard, 54, was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer on March 27 this year.

The Roy resident, who works in the Missions Support Branch of the Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill Air Force Base, suffered through the winter with a bad chest cold before doctors finally discovered a mass on her right lung.