Mar. 16, 2025
Anastatia Mayers, Jon Goodwin and Keisha Schahaff.Photo:Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic
An 80-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease has been named among the first passengers on Virgin Galactic’s second commercial space flight next month.
Passenger Jon Goodwin, 80, will be the second diagnosed with the condition to make the journey — dubbed ‘Galactic 02’ — and the first Olympian, after canoeing in the 1972 Munich Olympic games, as the commercial flight takes off on Aug.
Mar. 16, 2025
Margaret Galloway.Photo:Collier County Sheriff’s Office/Facev
Collier County Sheriff’s Office/Facev
An elderly woman was found alive in a garage six days after she disappeared in her Florida community.
Margaret Gallawaywas found “safe”Sunday afternoon inside a Crown Pointe resident’s garage, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office.
“My youngest daughter says she’s our miracle mama,” Michael Gallaway, the woman’s husband, toldNaples Daily News.
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Mar. 16, 2025
George Henderson.Photo: Hanson’s AuctioneersAn 800-year-old medieval wax seal sold for more than $5,000 at auction after a 10-year-old boy found it while treasure hunting with his father in Suffolk, England in November, according toHansons Auctioneers.George Henderson and his father Paul were taking part in a charity dig when hediscoveredan early 13th century seal displaying the Virgin and Child, said Hansons, which auctioned off the artifact in March.“He knew the seal was special when he dug it up but he didn’t know what it was.
Mar. 16, 2025
Way Bandy has graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg (USF) nearly 50 years after he was last in school.The grandfather of eight, 81, earned his bachelor’s degree on Dec. 15, when he walked across the graduation stage to receive his diploma. His wife Nancy and youngest son Kyle were cheering for him in the audience.The ceremony came after a longtime promise to his mother, who died in 2003.
Mar. 16, 2025
An 81-year-old man is miraculously on the mend after nearly 1,000 bees stung his body while he was farming on his Texas property.
Thomas Mizell, of Cleveland, was alone on the farm when he was attacked on June 26, his daughter, Tresha Holt,told Fox 26.
“He farms from dusk til dawn,” she told the news outlet. “He was clearing out the land for a fence line and all of a sudden, he didn’t know where they came from, the bees just attacked him.