Thousands turn out, search for missing jogger

Thousands turn out,search for missing jogger
SALT LAKE CITY -- Churches canceled meetings and services to allow hundreds of congregants to flood neighborhoods and go door-to-door in search of a missing pregnant woman whose disappearance has baffled friends and neighbors.
More than 3,000 people turned out Sunday to distribute fliers and join the search for Lori Hacking. The turnout was the largest since she vanished last Monday.
Later Sunday, about 200 people attended a candlelight vigil at a park where the woman's car was found and where it had been presumed that she disappeared while jogging.
The family held as many as two news conferences a day since the 27-year-old was reported missing. But they have been more reluctant to face reporters since questions arose about the credibility of Hacking's husband, Mark.
Scott Dunaway, a leader in Soares' church and the family's newly named spokesman, said they had learned little as far as new developments in the investigation.
A clump of brown hair was found Saturday in a trash bin at a gas station less than a block from the store where Mark Hacking bought a mattress before reporting his wife missing. But police say they don't know whether the hair was Lori's.
Detective Dwayne Baird, a police spokesman, wouldn't confirm or deny a Deseret Morning News report, citing unnamed sources, that a bloody knife with strands of hair was among items taken from the Hackings' apartment.
Baird said Mark Hacking, 28, was still a "person of interest" in the case, but he would not elaborate.
AP poll shows concernover AIDS threat to kids
WASHINGTON -- More than half of Americans are worried their children might become infected with the virus that causes AIDS, even though fewer people think the overall threat is very serious, an Associated Press poll found.
That decline in fears about AIDS comes at a time the disease is showing signs of making a comeback in this country.
About six in 10, 61 percent, said they feel AIDS is a "very serious" problem, according to the poll conducted for the AP by Ipsos-Public Affairs. When people were asked in 1987 how serious AIDS was as a national health problem, almost nine in 10 said it was "very serious."
Revolutionary new drugs allow people to live longer with the disease and young gay men have no memories of the devastatingly deadly early days of the sexually transmitted disease two decades ago. Health officials fear complacency could contribute to a comeback of the disease.
Their fears were confirmed a year ago when AIDS diagnoses increased for the first time in a decade.
Flooding death toll rises
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Floodwaters, disease and snakebites killed 58 more people in Bangladesh, officials said Monday, as the death toll from weeks of monsoon rains and flooding that has affected millions in South Asia rose to 944.
Across the border in India's Assam state, rescuers pulled seven more bodies from a boat that capsized while trying to ferry flood victims to safety, an officer at the local police station said. Ten other bodies were found Sunday at the site, located in Morigaon district, about 60 miles northeast of Gauhati, the Assam state capital.
Bangladesh's Food and Disaster Management Ministry said the 58 new deaths occurred due to diarrhea, drowning and snakebites, without providing further details.
The new deaths pushed the toll from this year's South Asian monsoons to 944, with casualties being reported across the subcontinent from Pakistan to Nepal. The floods began in late June.
CPR saves dog's life
FARGO, N.D. -- When a 3-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever named Maddy got tangled in a 10-foot rope securing a trampoline floating on a lake, owner Matt Tollefson didn't think twice. Tollefson dove in after her.
When he dragged the dog's lifeless body out, Tollefson again didn't hesitate.
Her eyes were open and her tongue hung to the side of her mouth. Tollefson performed CPR.
"She's part of the family," Tollefson said. "If she's going to go, she wasn't going to go like that."
Tollefson alternated compressions on Maddy's chest and blowing air in through her snout.
Tollefson said he took a first responders course in college but is not sure how he knew to blow air through her nose. He said he may have seen it on TV.
Two minutes into it last Monday, Maddy showed signs of life.
A veterinarian diagnosed Maddy the next day with aspiration pneumonia and a chip fracture in her shoulder from the compressions. The dog is a little swollen and is taking two steam baths a day to help her recovery. She also is on antibiotics.
Associated Press