PHOTO BY ROBERT BLANCHARD


Emergency officials were flown to the scene following a plane crash in the Tiger Creek Preserve around 12:30 p.m.June 7. On board the 2006 Pilatus PC-12/47 (single-turboprop, fixed wing),was pilot and Junction City businessman Ronald Bramlage, his wife, and four children, who were returning to Kansas from a trip to the Bahamas. The entire family perished in the crash.

PHOTO BY STEVE STEINER


Karen Meeks (left) of Meeks and Denmark LLP, who is representing James Foy (center), and her associate, Cassandra Denmark, approach the Lake Wales City Hall entrance on their way to his appeal hearing Friday.

PHOTO BY ROBERT BLANCHARD


Presenting the 2012 FHSAA State Champions: The Lake Wales High School Basketball team. Here, the winning team, having squashed Terry Parker High School by a score of 66-30, brings home the trophy and all the honor that comes with it. With them is the Highlander cheerleading squad.

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The same coach who kneeled to thank God just before the end of the winning game, is, most obviously, proud of his award winning team. Coach Billy D. Washington basks in the Highlander glory.

PHOTO BY MICHAEL WILSON

Jasper Smiddie, 19 (right), takes the oath as he makes his first appearance before County Judge Mary Catherine Green from the Polk County Jail Annex in Bartow Thursday. On Tuesday, the Grand Jury indicted Smiddie on charges of first degree murder in the death of his grandmother, Gloria Helfrich.

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Barbara Denmark will be missed by family and friends.

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Christopher Chase Whaley

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Matthew Paul Kelly is walked to the patrol car for transport to the Polk County Jail, escorted by Lake Wales Police officers. Kelly faces charges of aggravated assault and simple battery after an alleged outburst in which police said he threw gasoline on his mother.