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A Milton man has been charged with murder after he allegedly killed a woman with a hatchet and buried her body in his backyard.
Johnny Edwards Malisham, 60, was arrested Sunday after Santa Rosa County Sheriff s Office investigators worked with University of West Florida anthropologists to unearth the woman s body from below a backyard burn pit.
SRSO spokesman Sgt. Rich Aloy told the News Journal that authorities believe the body is Cynthia Hoover, a 60-year-old Milton woman who went missing in March. All indications are leading us to believe it is most likely Cynthia Hoover, Aloy said. But positive identification has not been done by the medical examiner.
Back-to-front plane boarding increases COVID-19 risk By Angus Whitley, Bloomberg News
Published: May 11, 2021, 6:00am
Share: United Airlines gate agent Emma Watt helps passengers scan their boarding passes for a flight to San Francisco at O Hare International Airport on June 18. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
Boarding passengers seated at the back of the aircraft first a COVID-era change by Delta Air Lines Inc. and others to cut the risk of infection actually increases the chance of catching the virus by 50 percent, a scientific study showed.
Back-to-front boarding is also twice as risky as letting passengers on at random, even though it does reduce exposure between seated passengers and those walking down the plane, according to the study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal. The higher risk comes from closer contact between passengers in the same rows clustering in the aisle as they stow their luggage.
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Bob and Tracy Brown
Bob was lucky enough to meet Tracy, a Fort Walton Beach native, in Birmingham Alabama. They met while Bob was selling wine and Tracy was managing a restaurant in Five Points South. After moving around a bit, they settled down in Plano, Texas, to raise their three children: Brandon, Natalie and Nicholas. Once the older two had moved out of the house, they were blessed to be able to move home and have been living in Shalimar for almost two years.
May 9, 2021
The University of West Florida held their Spring Commencement on Saturday.
Two ceremonies were held at Blue Wahoos Stadium, the first in-person commencement since the pandemic. UWF invited all 2020 graduates to attend the Spring 2021 commencement.
Graduates were socially distanced, and guests were limited to four per graduate. The ceremonies were streamed online, and many graduates chose to take part virtually.