(paraphrasing throwingthings)

Here it is the middle of February, the ratings high holy month for television, and the news directors around the country must have been thinking, "I wish we had a sexy story involving a good looking person in a high profile job committing a crime of high passion."

Looks like Lisa Nowak, NASA astronaut and attempted kidnapper, has solved that problem for them.

And she's from Maryland, so the locals have an angle!