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State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden announced that on May 28, Dean Allen Matthews was convicted by a Santa Rosa County jury on three counts of sexual battery with force likely to cause serious personal injury.

Immediately after the trial, Circuit Judge John Simon sentenced Matthews to three life sentences.

Billy Neal loves the American flag. At age 75, Neal still enjoys working outside on flagpoles and making sure the stars and stripes are swaying in the wind.

The Navarre man started his flagpole business in 2001 when he first moved to Navarre and named it “Flying High, Flying Proud.” He has installed flagpoles all over Navarre, including flagpoles at Navarre Press and Cayo Grande Apartments.

Nearly an hour before the sun rose on the Friday morning of a busy Memorial Day weekend, Tanner Haynes was on the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier hoping to catch something. But as the hours passed since his 5 a.m. start time, nearly six in all, the odds of a catch seemed stacked against him.

That is until he finally got a bite on his line and was able to reel it in fairly easily. His catch on this day was a mahi mahi.

At 5:45 a.m. Friday, May 28 Santa Rosa Commission Chair Dave Piech got a call with the news everyone has been waiting to hear for more than eight months.

“Chairman, I just wanted to let you know that we are 15 minutes from flowing traffic on the bridge,” Carter Johnson, government affairs liaison with the Florida Department of Transportation.