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In a strange turn of events, Santa Rosa County had to ask Santa Rosa County for a bigger sign.

After relations went sour with the TV show “Live PD,” Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies will be in the lime light and in television viewers’ living rooms once again.

After an eight-day jury trial, Larry L. Masino, 67, of Gulf Breeze and Dixie L. Masino, 65, of Pensacola, were convicted late Monday in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola of wire fraud conspiracy, operating an illegal gambling business and money laundering conspiracy.

In the evening hours of Jan. 12, 1993, Susan Morris, 21, was walking to her car in a parking lot at the back of the University of West Florida campus.

The two-hour lesson in diplomacy that Sheriff Bob Johnson received from colleagues in other counties soon after his 2016 election is proving to be worth millions of dollars a year to his budget.

Kathleen Lancaster, wife to Major Joshua-Lee Lancaster of the 14th Weapons School at Hurlburt, is nominated for the Military Spouse of the Year award. She serves as a Key Spouse to her husband’s squadron and chairman of the patient advisory council at Hurlburt Field’s medical squadron.

After threatening social media posts prompted increased security, Holley Navarre Middle School has received the all-clear from Santa Rosa Sheriff’s deputies that the threat “has no credibility.”

A Navarre man has been arrested on charges he shot three people at an Okaloosa County gentlemen’s club in 2016.

Public comment period for the proposed use of the nearly $290 million in RESTORE Pot 3 money is underway, and Santa Rosa County has three projects under consideration, all aimed at cleaning up Santa Rosa Sound.

A specially called meeting of the Holley Navarre Water System board of directors Jan. 31 got heated as board members discussed legal representation and complaints against the board.