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An Open Letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden July 26, 2010 Dear Administrator Bolden: Congress has recently voted on legislation which will put NASA on a sensible path, which Congress, the White House and NASA can all use so the space agency can move beyond its current malaise to a bright future. It’s quite clear to everyone the primary cause of this malaise is your Deputy, Lori Garver. Now that Congress has spoken it’s time for you to take action and remove Ms. Garver. It’s time for you to have a heart to heart, one on one, with President Obama...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Legislation that would have required all hospitals, including Catholic facilities, to prescribe rape victims the so-called morning after pill, was allowed to die Monday. The Public Health Committee, which took up the bill 15 minutes before its deadline, ran out of time to act on a possible compromise that would have allowed Catholic hospitals to use private nurses to administer the pill. The medication helps prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of intercourse. It's questionable whether the idea will be brought up as an amendment to another bill sometime before the session ends in May. The...

Friday, May 27, 2005 Possible Replacements for Cardinal McCarrick as Archbishop of Washington, DC Like it or not, the venerable Cardinal McCarrick of Washington will be hitting 75 this July 7th. You know what that means! Our sources tell us his resignation will be accepted "on an expedited timetable." Coupled with his public desire to retire early, Washington should have a new leader within the year. This episcopal see is highly visible due to it being located in our nation's capital and has been rewarded, since its inception, with its archbishops being created cardinals -- O'Boyle, Baum, Hickey, and McCarrick....

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2005 – ABC's hit TV program "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" this weekend will feature the show's design team building and furnishing a new home for the family of a soldier killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The family of Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, a soldier who died during the opening days of the Iraqi war, recently took ownership of a new $500,000 house north of Flagstaff, Ariz., that resulted from the effort. A team from the Extreme Makeover program designed the sprawling home and furnished it in a southwestern motif. A two-hour season finale, to air May 22,...

Article Last Updated: 4/15/2005 08:49 AM Guilty plea by Hacking likely today The plan all along? All signs indicate neither side ever intended to go to trial By Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune Expect no gasps of surprise if Mark Hacking pleads guilty today. It appears that he has never intended to do anything otherwise.    Witnesses pivotal to the prosecution's case were never contacted by defense investigators - a fundamental first step in establishing a trial defense in any case, let alone one in which the defendant faces life imprisonment.    And, apparently content that...

LIMA, Peru — The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has upheld the conviction of Lori Berenson, a New York native imprisoned in Peru for terrorist collaboration with Marxist guerrillas, President Alejandro Toledo confirmed Thursday. In an interview with Radioprogramas radio, when asked to comment on news reports of the ruling, Toledo said the court members "have ratified the sentence and I once again salute the court members. It is undoubtedly a great satisfaction and tranquility for Peruvian justice and all Peruvians." Phone calls to Berenson's family in New York City were not answered, and no spokesman for Peru's court system...

Two men face murder trials for deaths of pregnant wives Article Last Updated: Friday, February 06, 2004 - 3:36:15 AM PST Two men face murder trials for deaths of pregnant wives One gets headlines around the world; the other is largely ignored By Amelia Hansen, STAFF WRITER REDWOOD CITY -- Deep inside the Maguire Correctional Facility, a man accused of killing his pregnant wife and unborn child sits waiting for his day in court. His name is not Scott Peterson. But like Peterson, he is in his 30s, has dark hair, and will stand trial for multiple counts of murder....

Man Bought Mattress Just Before Reporting Wife Missing Mark Hacking 'Person Of Interest' -- Not Suspect -- In Wife's Disappearance SALT LAKE CITY -- Around the time Mark Hacking called police to report that his pregnant wife never returned from her morning jog, he was at a furniture store buying a new mattress, police confirmed Friday. Hacking, 28, has not appeared publicly since Monday, the day he said his 27-year-old wife, Lori, vanished. Family members say he has since been hospitalized for stress. The Deseret Morning News and television station KSTU reported Thursday that police found Hacking at a hotel...

Hacking may have learned of husband's lies Missing: The family hires a criminal defense attorney to represent Mark Hacking, who remains hospitalized By Ashley Broughton and Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-07-27 00:39:09.532 Three days before she disappeared, Lori Hacking may have uncovered her husband's deceptions.   She received a phone call at her work, started crying and went home early, said a colleague at Wells Fargo Institutional Brokerage and Sales.   "I could hear her say things such as, 'But he's already been accepted. He's already applied. This can't be correct,' said Darren Openshaw, a Wells Fargo...

Husband's 'perfect' past keeps crumbling Suspicions: As blood is reported found in the Hackings' apartment, an ex-missionary says Mark was booted from a mission in Canada By Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-07-29 02:34:31.886 Small amounts of blood are among the evidence taken last week from the apartment of Lori Hacking, according to a source familiar with the investigation. But detectives won't have a definitive answer on whose blood it is anytime soon. State forensic experts assisted Salt Lake City police last week in searching the missing woman's apartment, seizing bags of evidence and a box...

SALT LAKE CITY — Fox News has learned from family and investigative sources that bloodstains have been found all over the apartment of Mark and Lori Hacking (search). Police sources say that when they entered the Hacking apartment earlier in the week, it appeared to have been cleaned. But investigators detected a substantial amount of blood using the forensic chemical luminol (search), which can make even well scrubbed bloodstains glow blue-green in the dark, sources say. Police say they believe the blood is Lori’s and that she was attacked in her apartment. Toxicology results that can confirm whether it is...

Salt Lake landfill search began immediately By Pat Reavy and Jennifer Dobner Deseret Morning News A search of a Salt Lake Valley landfill for clues to the whereabouts of Lori Hacking may have begun — or was at least planned by city police — as early as one day after the Salt Lake woman was reported missing by her husband last week.Continued...

Tape Shows Mark After Alleged Murder Monday, August 02, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY — Soon after authorities believe Mark Hacking (search) killed his wife, he is seen inside a convenience store, where he repeatedly checked his hands, pulled something out of his watch and apparently avoided eye contact with other customers. His early morning trip to the Maverik convenience store is captured in a surveillance video, obtained exclusively by FOX News. The tape was taken at approximately 1:30 a.m. Monday, July 19 — the same day Mark's wife Lori Hacking (search) was reported missing. Click here to view the surveillance...

The husband of a missing pregnant woman told a "reliable citizen witness" in the psychiatric ward that he killed his wife as she slept before throwing her body in a trash bin, according to a court filing. The statement, released Tuesday by the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department, also says investigators found human blood on a knife in the bedroom of Mark Hacking's apartment and on their bed's headboard and a bedrail. Blood found in the bedroom matched traces of blood found in Lori Hacking's car, according to the statement. Mark Hacking was arrested Monday on a charge of aggravated...

Probable Cause Statement: Mark Hacking Told "Reliable Witness" He Killed His Wife While She Slept Aug 3, 2004 9:25 pm US/Mountain Mark Hacking told a ``reliable'' witness at a psychiatric ward that he killed his wife as she slept in bed and then threw her body in a trash bin, a court filing says. The police affidavit, released Tuesday by prosecutors, also says investigators found a bloody knife in the bedroom of Mark Hacking's apartment and blood on the couple's headboard and bed rail. Blood from the bedroom matched traces of blood found in Lori Hacking's car, according to the...

Brothers prompt confession Mark Hacking opened up to Scott and Lance after they confronted him in hospital By Matthew D. LaPlante, Matt Canham and Stephen Hunt 2004, The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-05 02:48:09.673 Five days into the search for their sister-in-law, Mark Hacking's brothers made a decision that could help seal his fate.    Cognizant of their promise to help find Lori Hacking, they confronted Mark in his hospital room the morning of July 24, pleaded for information and gave him the afternoon to think it over.    They returned that night. And, they said, he confessed.    "My...

Arraignment of Hacking puts case in lawyers' hands By Stephen Hunt and Matthew D. LaPlanteThe Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-11 00:55:49.001 Now that Mark Hacking has been charged with murder, prosecutors will begin delivering piles of police reports, witness interviews and crime lab reports to defense attorney D. Gilbert Athay.   In those piles, Athay will find statements made to police by Hacking's parents, brothers, co-workers and friends, all of whom have provided information leading to criminal charges.    Athay will also find testimony from Lori Hacking's co-workers, the couple's neighbors and witnesses who believe they saw Lori or Mark,...

For the first weekend in more than one month, searchers with cadaver dogs will not comb a west Salt Lake landfill looking for the body of Lori Hacking, whose remains are believed to be buried there. And they're looking to a Mesa County, Colo., case for hope that the search may be successful. A similar search in the Colorado case discovered the body of one of two murder victims who had been disposed of in the landfill. Beginning next Tuesday, Salt Lake police will launch phase two of the search for the missing woman and comb through more than 4,200...

Mark Hacking Pleads Not GuiltyOct. 29, 2004 Tonya Papanikolas Reporting We've been expecting a "not guilty" plea in the Mark Hacking case and today there were no surprises at his arraignment; Mark Hacking did indeed plead "not guilty." KSL-TV asked Mark Hacking's attorney today if a "not guilty" plea means someone is innocent. He replied, “what it means is the state has to prove its case, prove Mark Hacking killed his wife, beyond a reasonable doubt.” The innocent plea infuriated Lori Hacking's family -- her brother had urged Hacking to "be a man" and accept punishment, and her mother...

12:42pm Eastern, Fox News Alert reports unconfirmed find of human remains in a landfill near Salt Lake City. Could possibly be the remains of Lori Hacking.

(KSL News) -- Police have confirmed that the human remains found Friday morning at the Salt Lake County landfill are those of Lori Hacking. In a statement sent to the media Detective Phil Eslinger said, "This afternoon the Salt Lake City Police Department was notified by teh Office of the Medical Examiner that dental records positively identified the remains found at the land fill as those of Lori Hacking." After weeks of fruitless efforts, the search for the body is developing at breakneck speed. First, searchers found the body at 8:20 this morning. When they made the official announcement a...

Hacking Waives Preliminary Hearing Sep. 23, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mark Hacking, accused of killing his wife Lori while she slept and dumping her body in a trash bin, waived his preliminary hearing Thursday. "Yes, your honor," Hacking told Judge William Barrett when asked he understood what it meant to give up a preliminary hearing, which is essentially acknowledging that the state has enough evidence against him to proceed with a murder trial. Hacking wore handcuffs and a bulletproof vest over his yellow jail jumpsuit. Those were the only three words Hacking said during the short hearing,...

Friend of Mark Hacking Describes Mark The Night Before Lori DisappearedSep 17, 2004 10:06 am US/Mountain A new witness says he was with Mark Hacking the Sunday night police say Mark Hacking murdered his wife. The police weren't interested in this man's story, because he was in jail. But after 2News told police about the witness, they are now arranging to talk to him. “He was going nuts. He was going absolutely nuts," said “Jim”, a friend of Mark Hacking. Jim, (not his real name) has been friends with Mark Hacking for five years and he says he was with...

Mark Hacking Says He's Writing a Book Sep. 16, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As police search the county landfill for the body of Lori Hacking, her husband, charged with her murder, is working on a book. Mark Hacking said in a letter to a tv station that any proceeds from the book would go to the Lori Hacking memorial scholarship fund, which was established by the woman's mother. The Salt Lake television station said Wednesday night that jail officials had confirmed that the letter had come from there, and Mark Hacking's father, Douglas Hacking, said it was...

Deseret Morning News, Sunday, August 29, 2004As defense, insanity is tough sellFew attempt it because of Utah's strict statutesBy Linda ThomsonDeseret Morning News When someone is charged with murder, the first response of many people is "He must have been insane." Leonard Gall, right, with attorney Stephen McCaughey, pleads guilty but mentally ill in September 2003.Associated Press And in the case of Mark Douglas Hacking — charged with murdering his wife, Lori — other behaviors seem not quite right: Things like running around naked outside a hotel and checking into a mental ward before his arrest.For now there is no...

Hacking Makes First In-Person Court Appearance Aug. 16, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mark Hacking, charged with shooting his wife in the head and throwing her body into a trash bin, showed up in a heavily guarded courtroom Monday wearing a bulletproof vest. (Photo Credit: Francisco Kjolseth, Pool) Hacking, dressed in yellow jail garb and orange sneakers, said nothing as the judge scheduled a preliminary hearing for Sept. 23. Hacking's first in-person court appearance came after police marked their 12th night searching a county landfill without finding her body or .22-caliber firearm. Hacking reported his wife missing July...

Deseret Morning News, Sunday, August 15, 2004Grief, anger, love fill mother's heartCopyright 2004 Deseret Morning NewsBy Jennifer DobnerDeseret Morning News OREM — It was the Thursday after Lori Hacking was reported missing and Thelma Soares, Lori's mother, had gone to the hospital to see her son-in-law, Mark. Thelma Soares asks July 20 that the search for her daughter continue.Ryan Long, Deseret Morning News At the time it seemed that Mark Hacking had collapsed with grief over the disappearance of his newly pregnant wife. He was undergoing psychological testing at the University of Utah Medical Center and had been incoherent when...

Surveillance Seized in Hacking Probe 14 minutes ago By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - Police have seized surveillance equipment from the psychiatric hospital where Mark Hacking worked as an orderly and the convenience store where he was seen twice the night his wife, Lori, presumably died. Hacking, 28, is accused of killing Lori Hacking, 27, while she slept and dumping her body in a trash bin. Authorities believe the bin is at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute, Hacking's former employer. The equipment taken from the hospital was a digital recorder for surveillance cameras, according...

Don't look now, but camera is watching Privacy: The video eye is almost everywhere these days, but the view isn't like they portray on crime shows By Bob Mims The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-13 00:25:49.959 On a plane, train or bus, strolling a mall or park, using an ATM, riding an elevator, pumping gas, feeding coins into a tollbooth, in class or even your doctor's examining room - someone could be watching.     Are you a store clerk? Your cash register may be the star attraction of a security cam. So may be the hallways at...

Letter shows Lori's heartache Typewritten note among early findings that made police suspicious By Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-12 02:03:46.427 On the day Mark Hacking reported his wife missing, police found a letter in which she pleaded for him to change his ways.    "I want to grow old with you, but I can't do it under these conditions," she wrote.    The typewritten letter was found on a shelf in a spare bedroom of the couple's apartment about the same time an officer pulled a blood-stained hunting knife from a bedside drawer.    Within hours,...

Mark Hacking made an initial court appearance Tuesday, facing a murder charge in the death of his wife, whose body he allegedly placed in a Dumpster at the U. — action that may have been captured on video now in the possession of investigators. Mark Hacking appears via video in court as Gil Athay, his lawyer, stands at a podium. Chris Bergin, Associated Press Hacking, 28, is accused of shooting and killing his wife Lori, 27, as she slept and then dropping her body and the murder weapon in separate Dumpsters. On Monday, prosecutors charged Mark Hacking with one count...

Human beings have been walking upright on this Earth for a few million years. We have preserved the species in large measure by preserving our own tribes. We will battle to the end to protect our own. Blood is thicker than water, right? No, blood is thicker than just about anything. We humans have only considered preserving and perpetuating the larger community for the past 4,000 years. Thank Hammurabi, the Babylonian ruler who produced a black stone tablet with the earliest known code of laws meant to organize and regulate society. Somehow the wise prince knew something. Protect the greater...

Deseret Morning News, Tuesday, August 10, 2004Rifle used, Yocom saysHacking bail soars to $1 million after charges are filedBy Pat Reavy and Lucinda Dillon KinkeadDeseret Morning News Mark Hacking was to make his first court appearance today in what prosecutors alleged Monday was the "gutless" shooting death of his wife, Lori, as she slept. Searchers are using excavators at the Salt Lake County Landfill in an effort to find Lori Hacking's body. They have gone through about half of the trash in the search area. Chris Bergin, Deseret Morning News The Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office on Monday filed...

Hidden Truth: Lori Hacking Case Aug. 6, 2004 On July 24, while sitting in a psychiatric hospital, Mark Hacking's brothers say he told them that he killed his wife, Lori, and then put her body in the trash. It is believed her body is buried under more than 2,000 tons of garbage. By all accounts, Mark Hacking worshipped his wife of five years, and he wasn’t afraid to show it. Correspondent Maureen Maher has this 48 Hours update. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He adored her. And she adored him,” recalls Lori’s mother, Thelma Soares. “I couldn’t have asked for a better son-in-law. Lori...

Deseret Morning News, Monday, August 09, 2004Murder charge filed against Mark HackingBy Travis ReedAssociated Press A first-degree murder charge was filed Monday against Mark Hacking, who allegedly confessed to relatives that he shot his sleeping wife in the head and threw her body in a trash bin. Salt Lake County District Attorney David Yocom talks to the press Monday, as prosecuting attorney Robert Stott looks on.Chris Bergin, Deseret Morning News Lori Hacking's body has not been found, despite numerous searches of a landfill.The charge against the husband carries a sentencing range of five years to life in prison. Hacking remained...

Deseret Morning News, Sunday, August 08, 2004Portraits of Sorrow: MarkBy Lucinda Dillon KinkeadDeseret Morning News It was snowing that night in the fall of 2001, a miserable and cold night, and Kara Cottle was waiting for the shuttle bus to get home after her night class. Brandon Wood and Mark sport missionary attire in 1995. Mark was sent home early from his mission to Canada for disciplinary reasons. From under her hood, she saw Mark Hacking in his SUV, the popular student she'd known as a kid in Orem and who'd re-introduced himself in their Evolution of Human Health and...

Lori's outraged father lashes out ''Monstrous act'': In a statement, Hareld Soares decries the tragic death of his daughter, his son-in-law's lies and cowardice, says he seeks justice, not vengeance By Matthew D. LaPlante and Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-07 01:10:22.092 Four days after his wife vanished, Mark Hacking wrapped his large arms around his father-in-law's small frame and promised he wasn't responsible.     Now, believing his daughter's body is among thousands of tons of waste paper, plastics and rotting food, Hareld Soares is lashing out at his son-in-law.    "As the facts about my...

Hacking Confessed to Brothers, Father Says By PAUL FOY ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Mark Hacking confessed to two older brothers that he killed his wife as she slept and then put the body in a trash bin, their father said Thursday. Hacking, confronted with evidence he had something to do with his wife's disappearance, and overwhelmed by the volunteer effort to find her, made the confession when his brothers Scott and Lance visited him at a psychiatric ward July 24, the father, Douglas Hacking, said. "He decided the time was right - he had better let authorities...

Search now 'unnecessary,' say families of Lori Hacking By Jennifer Dobner Deseret Morning News Mark Hacking told his family something important Saturday — and whatever it is, it apparently makes any further volunteer searches for his missing 27-year-old wife unnecessary. That news came late Saturday, not from Salt Lake City police but by way of a statement faxed to the Deseret Morning News and other media by Mark and Lori Hackings' families. "The families understand that Mark Hacking has provided information that makes it unnecessary for individuals or groups to continue the volunteer search," the statement reads. "At this time,...

More Evidence Points to Mark Hacking; Families Issue Statement Sunday, August 01, 2004 PHOTOS PHOTO ESSAYS Click image to enlarge Photo Essays:•The Search for Lori Hacking STORIES •Lab: Evidence May Help Solve Hacking Case •Timeline: Lori Hacking Disappearance•Police: Lori May Have Never Gone Jogging•Source: 'Rage Killing' in Hacking Home•Co-Workers: Lori Got Upsetting Phone Call•Lori's Father Suspicious of Son-in-Law•Jogger's Family Says She Was Deceived•Jogger's Husband Lied to Family, Police SALT LAKE CITY — The families of Mark and Lori Hacking (search) issued a statement late Saturday saying Mark Hacking (search) had provided information that makes a volunteer search for his missing...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The search for 27-year-old Lori Hacking has made an unlikely connection between Salt Lake City and Chapel Hill.Lori Hacking reportedly left her Salt Lake home around daybreak Monday to go jogging and has not been seen since. Mark Hacking, Lori's husband, told family, investigators and the media that he and his wife had planned to move to Chapel Hill to attend medical school, but on Wednesday, WRAL learned that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has no record of Mark Hacking and that he is not registered to be a student at the medical...

SALT LAKE CITY — The night after 27-year-old Lori Hacking (search) disappeared, her husband was causing a disturbance at a local hotel, FOX News has learned. Police late Monday night responded to a complaint at the Chase Suites Hotel, where Mark Hacking (search) was running around naked, only wearing a pair of sandals. When the officers realized who he was, they took him to the nearby University Neuropsychiatric Institute (search), where he was admitted as a patient. FOX News has also learned that less than a half hour before Mark Hacking called police to report that his pregnant wife never...

Mark Hacking had checked into a hotel on Tuesday and was found outside the hotel walking around naked. Needed psychiatric attention.

Pregnant Woman Disappears While Jogging Tuesday, July 20, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY — In a case reminiscent of the disappearance of Laci Peterson, a 27-year-old pregnant woman vanished during her daily morning jog, and distraught family and friends turned out Tuesday to search for her. Lori Kay Hacking, who is five weeks pregnant, went out about 5:30 a.m. Monday, heading from her Salt Lake City home to nearby City Creek Canyon and Memory Grove park for a run.

A couple of weeks ago San Francisco Capobianco Gallery owner Lori Haigh was beaten up because she displayed paintings by Berkeley artist Guy Colwell of US troops torturing Iraqis. Haigh's voicemail was also filled with profanity-laced threats and hateful diatribes Haigh claimed her right to free speech had been violated. It goes without saying that she is absolutely right. On the other hand, as a liberal Haigh should at least be sufficiently consistent ask the simple question: Why would anyone do that? Well, the answer is just as simple. Colwell deliberately painted American troops as a bunch of sadistic Nazis....

Father's plea: Help me free Lori Friday, May 7, 2004 By NICOLA M. WHITE HERALD NEWS For eight years, Lori Berenson has been behind bars in a Peruvian prison, convicted of collaborating with leftist terrorists to overthrow the Peruvian government.For eight years, her father, a professor at Montclair State University, has insisted she's innocent.Early Thursday, Mark Berenson and his wife, Rhoda, left their Manhattan home for Costa Rica, where they hope the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will force the Peruvian government to free their daughter.From the late 1980s to the 1990s, leftist terrorist groups, the most prominent being the...

I have contacted the family of Lori Piestewa. What a beautiful family they are. They say that the outpouring of love to them from not only the United States but from all over the world has been really appreciated by them. They say it helps so much in dealing with the distress of losing a loved one. Click on the link above to know Lori more personally. She leaves behind two very young children. She was a single mother, and her parents now are having to raise her children. If you wish to contact the family to send your condolences,...

Restructured Committee on Sexual Abuse Announced WASHINGTON (September 5, 2002) –- Belleville Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), announced today the restructuring of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse (AHCSA) and its new membership. At their June 13-15 meeting in Dallas, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as part of their "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People," voted that "the membership of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse will be reconstituted to include representation" from each of the fourteen episcopal regions into which the nation's dioceses and...