Kamas News

An eastern Summit County woman in her 20s was injured when she fell from a horse at a home in Francis July 2 at about 2:10 p.m. The horse might have stepped on the woman, a spokeswoman for South Summit Ambulance said.

Council seats and mayoral posts on the ballot in five cities and towns on the East Side should draw more candidates next week.

The beginnings of a new home on Highland Drive in the Highland Estates area on Monday.

Drama, dance, music, tie-dye T-shirts, a recycling collage and rides on Park City Mountain Resort's Alpine slide are on the docket for a popular summer camp program.

Kamas Mayor Lew Marchant announced Thursday that he will campaign for a third term because continuity in leadership is needed as growing pains squeeze the small town east of Park City.

It was a day of firsts at the Park Silly Sunday Market. On the morning after Park City cut the cake to celebrate its 125th birthday, the crowds were back on lower Main Street to celebrate opening day of the Park City Silly Sunday Market, an outdoor street festival that combines artists, farmers and performers.

A man in his 40s reportedly exposed himself to a woman in a hallway at the Grand Summit Hotel at The Canyons June 9 at 9:56 p.m. The suspect, who reportedly has short gray hair, is approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall.

I was surprised recently when Googling the Uintah Mountains to see the following: 'Rising Trout on Butterfly Lake.' Sure enough, there was a picture of a rising trout on Butterfly Lake and it appeared from the resounding rings to be a good-sized one.

Serving a search warrant at an apartment in Kamas helped the Summit County Sheriff's Office solve two residential burglaries on the East Side, the authorities say.

The brother of a man shot and killed by a South Jordan police officer claims the shooting might not have been justified.

The state's best burger is made right in Park City's backyard, and many people don't even know it's there.

The Colby School was evacuated May 22 when a man lodged a "roundabout" bomb threat against the school, Summit County Sheriff's Office Detective Ron Bridge said.

A 41-year-old Kamas man who was shot and killed by police following an early Thursday chase has been identified as Wade Russell Pennington.

Police have identified a man shot and killed by officers in West Jordan. Officers say 41-year-old Wade Russell Pennington, of Kamas, was trying to ram officers with his SUV early Thursday morning when one of the officers opened fire--killing him.

A South Summit man has still not been charged in connection with a traffic crash that killed a Peoa man March 30 on State Road 32 near Kamas.

Kamas resident Justin Bailey, who is autistic, was found several miles from where he was last seen when he wandered away from his apartment last summer.

Shauna Woolstenhulme is a woman who definitely walks her talk. She teaches fitness and is in better shape at age 50 than she was as a multi-sport collegiate athlete on scholarship.

We have results to a story we first brought you in March. Justin Bailey has autism, and has wandered away from home several times.

The swine flu scare sent jittery people pouring into local health clinics last week fearing they had contracted the mysterious new illness.

Strawberry Days kicked off Saturday in Pleasant Grove as nine young women competed for the title of Strawberry Days Rodeo Queen.