Missing jogger's husband remains hospitalized

Missing jogger's husbandremains hospitalized
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, according to news reports.
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 News and television station KSTU reported Thursday that police found Hacking at a hotel about a half-mile from the couple's apartment early Tuesday. The station said he was running around naked outside the motel and was hospitalized.
Police said only that they were called to a disturbance involving Hacking and that the matter was turned over to medical personnel. Detective Dwayne Baird said police considered Hacking a person of interest in the case but not a suspect, and that he had been interviewed as recently as Wednesday.
Lori Hacking was five weeks pregnant when she disappeared just days before the couple was to move to North Carolina, where Mark Hacking said he was going to attend medical school. But he had lied to his wife and family -- he never graduated from college, nor was he accepted to any medical school, authorities said Thursday.
Three teachers chosento train as astronauts
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Three teachers chosen to become astronauts said their main mission is to inspire schoolchildren and the public to become enthusiastic about space exploration, science and technology.
The teachers are among eight U.S. and three Japanese astronaut candidates who next week will complete the first phase of their NASA training at Pensacola Naval Air Station.
"That's really almost an added bonus if I get to go up," Joe Acaba, 36, a middle school math and science teacher from Dunnellon said Thursday. "By going through the entire training process, working with the astronauts and learning the program, I'm in a better position to really bring that back to the kids."
His sentiments were echoed by Ricky Arnold, 40, a Cheverly, Md., native who was teaching math and science in Bucharest, Romania, when he was selected and Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, a high school science teacher from Vancouver, Wash.
Nixon retreat demolished
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Former President Nixon's private sanctuary, known as the Winter White House, was razed to make way for a new residence.
The ranch-style home at 500 Bay Lane in the Miami island suburb was where plans for the Watergate break-in at Democratic headquarters were discussed and where Nixon retreated as the scandal unfolded.
"When he became president, he needed a getaway, and that became his Winter White House," said Paul George, history professor at Miami Dade College.
Nixon bought the home from his former Senate colleague George Smathers and visited at least 50 times while in office from 1969 to 1974.
Key Biscayne's top building official, Jud Kurlancheek, said Thursday the Nixon home was razed during the past two days.
36 die in train derailment
MEKECE, Turkey -- Crews began clearing the wreckage today of a new express train that derailed in northwest Turkey and killed 36 people in one of the country's worst train disasters.
The crash was a major embarrassment to the government that had showcased the train as one of its greatest projects.
Engineers quickly came forward saying they had warned the government on numerous occasions that the old tracks along the Istanbul-Ankara line could not handle the new high-speed cars.
There were also calls for Transport Minister Binali Yildirim's resignation. "Can Yildirim stay in that position after such an incident?" wrote Yalcin Bayer, a columnist in Hurriyet newspaper.
Not in serious condition
TOKYO -- Doctors who have been treating an accused U.S. Army deserter in Japan said today that his condition isn't serious and that he doesn't need urgent medical care, but that more tests will be carried out. Charles Jenkins, wanted by the United States for reportedly abandoning his Army platoon in 1965 and defecting to North Korea, has been hospitalized in Tokyo since arriving in Japan on Sunday. Japanese officials say Jenkins, who has lived in the North for nearly four decades, was suffering the aftereffects of an abdominal operation performed in the communist state. The United States plans to pursue a case against Jenkins, including a possible court-martial, but has not yet officially requested custody of him, citing humanitarian concerns over his health.
Associated Press