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Pictures of the aftermath of bad car crashes. We’ve all seen them, whether it is in the newspaper, on TV or on social media. The question I would like to ask the readers of this column is this: should we see them? Last weekend’s deadly crash on U.S. 27 north of Avon Park is a prime example. It was a horrific accident, with one of the vehicles having five children inside. We don’t do a lot of press releases on traffic crashes, other than giving heads up about the traffic situation, because most

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AVON PARK -- An Avon Park man was charged with attempted murder after trying to shoot a rival in Avon Park Wednesday evening, Aug. 23, just a few hours after another reported incident between the two. Deputies responded to Willie Hawk’s Grocery on Willie Hawk Ave. at 6:10 p.m. after a report of a man firing five shots outside the store. It was quickly learned that 31-year-old Carlos Pyatt Jr. was the shooter. He was located a few blocks away at 6:38 p.m. and detained. An hour and 20 minutes

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LAKE PLACID -- A 93-year-old Lake Placid man was kidnapped and taken to two ATMs late Friday, Aug. 18 as part of a home invasion robbery. The victim, who lives in Sun 'n Lake South in the area of Serenade Drive, told deputies that he heard his door rattling around 9 p.m. and assumed it was a neighbor. When he opened the door, however, he found a man with a gun who told the victim to go inside and sit down. He searched the home and then took the victim’s wallet. The suspect asked about guns, but

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SEBRING -- Another 18-year-old has been arrested in connection with a string of burglaries in Sebring Hills this past weekend. JimmyRay Parks was charged with being an accessory after the fact after it was learned he hid the tools Matthew John Bass Jr. stole in one of five burglaries he was charged with over the night of Aug. 12-13. Detectives learned that after Bass stole a bag containing more than $600 worth of tools from one of the vehicles he burglarized that night, he hid it inside a car

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SEBRING -- A U.S. Marshals task force has located and arrested a man wanted for an Aug. 7 attempted murder in Sebring. Frazier Lee Carpenter, 36, was found in Wauchula Wednesday, Aug. 17, by the task force, which is made up of marshals and members of the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office. He was charged with attempted murder, firing a weapon in public, improper exhibition of a firearm, aggravated stalking and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon in connection with the incident on King

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