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Mark Hacking, 28, was outgoing and romantic, while Lori, 27, was private and practical.
He adored her and she adored him," recalls Lori's mother.  "I couldn't have asked for a better son-in-law.

Hacking reported his wife missing, "she never came home after going for an early jog in nearby woods".

Police learned that he'd been shopping for a new mattress before he called 911.  He was convicted of killing Lori.

Antony Coward
Around 7 a.m. March 5, a 26-year-old pregnant woman was hit from behind in the head with a hammer in Briarwood, Queens. Her handbag was stolen.

Police believe two earlier incidents are related to the this attack with similar methodology.  The suspect was arrested.

Watch for the name. It may be tricky.    Just a thought.

Joey...

The man who didn't tell law enforcement that he knew about a massacre plot at a historically black South Carolina church before the crime was committed and lied to the FBI about it was sentenced to 27 months in prison Tuesday.

Joey Meek was a friend of Dylann Roof, the man convicted and sentenced to death for killing nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015.

U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, who also presided over Roof's trial, said he wanted Meek to spend time in prison as a deterrent for anyone in the future who knows about something so serious and fails to report it.

Meek admitted that Roof had told him he'd been planning the attack for months, and intended to commit suicide after the killings were complete. Meek also said Roof had told him he had a gun fanny pack to carry extra ammunition.

Kidnapped...

An Iraqi man, his wife and a brother came to the U.S. in 2008 as refugees from Iraq.

They fabricated the immigration papers and decided to skip his brother's name from the family tree.  A brother who participated in the 2004 kidnapping of American contractor Roy Hallums.

R.H. was kidnapped and held with other hostages for months in horrible conditions in an underground bunker in Iraq, the Justice Department said.

When all three applied for U.S. citizenship, they had to answer whether they had ever given false or misleading information while applying for any immigration benefit.      

Who are we letting in?  God Help us all. 

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At least 25 people are known to have died when a rain-soaked hillside collapsed without warning, unleashing a wall of mud that engulfed dozens of homes in a river valley near the rural town of Oso, Seattle. Many are still missing days after the mudslide. 

Numerous reports dating back to the 1950s have warned that the hillside, that collapsed,  is subject to failure. Indeed, the very same portion of hillside outside Oso, has slid into the Stillaguamish River numerous times since the 1950s.

Daniel Miller, a geomorph­ologist, has studied the area and reported to the US Army Corps of Engineers. He warned of “large catastrophic failure.”
The resident weren't aware of the danger they are living in of this particular location.

Many dangers are around us, known to some but the public is unaware of. Hope that the outcomes are not as grim as the mudslide. God Help us all.

Just a thought.

Detested...

At the beginning of 2016, North Carolina called for drug tests for welfare recipients.  The results revealed that of 89 people who were picked for the test, 21 tested hot with drugs in their system.

However,   70 other people were called in and did not show up for the drug test at all.  These no-shows were also barred from receiving benefits.

Because of the large number of those who failed or did not show up, the state of North Carolina is requiring ALL those wishing to apply for the Work First program be tested for drugs. This requirement seems to be common sense and should be done in every state. Just a thought. 

No More...*

Hyatt Hotels will no longer offer on-demand pornographic movies in its rooms. Hyatt is just the latest hotel company to ban on-demand adult entertainment from its rooms.

Marriott hotels ended the practice of offering adult video on demand several years ago. The company's chairman, Bill Marriott, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told The Associated Press in 2012 that not only was the church "very, very opposed to pornography," but that demand for the movies had "gone way down".

On the other hand, Playboy magazine is to stop publishing images of naked women as part of its redesign, it has emerged.    The internet has made nudity outdated, and pornographic magazines are no longer so commercially viable.  However, the magazine will still feature women in provocative poses  though not fully nude.

What the world coming to. Just a thought.

Thank you...*

Two Boston police officers are being praised for coming to the aid of veteran after a city bus driver sought help with a rider holding a hatchet to his neck and threatening to kill himself.

Capt. Haseeb Hosein was working a construction detail when the driver got his attention. Hosein called for back-up, boarded the bus and started talking to the troubled passenger.

Another officer, patrol officer David Godin, joined in the effort to talk the man out of killing himself, according to the station.

When he opened up and told them he was a veteran, Godin said: "Thank you for your service."
At those simple words, the man dropped the hatchet and eventually walked off the bus to a waiting ambulance.
"The goal on a call like this is for everyone to go home safe and, thankfully, today everybody did," police said in a statement.    Just a thought.