Van Williams, 49 of Fort Lauderdale, was taken into custody Wednesday May 16th by the FBI.

He made his initial appearance in federal court Thursday and will have a bond hearing on May 24th.

According to the criminal complaint, Williams met young girls, many of them underage runaways, in his neighborhood and invited them to stay with him at his Fort Lauderdale home. He would promise them food and shelter.

Williams would then convince the girls to work as prostitutes, according to the affidavit.

Williams would allegedly charge the prostitution customers a fee for “renting” one of his bedrooms and would collect all the money the customers paid to have sex with the minor girls.

The complaint also alleges that Williams provided the girls with illegal narcotics, including marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy.

A court records check shows Williams has a long rap sheet dating back to 1987 and a long list of aliases.

Health officials still haven’t been able to determine what caused the swelling and itching on the students and teachers’ arms and legs.

It all began around 10 a.m. in a second floor classroom when students were moving from one class to another. As firefighters and paramedics converged on the school word of the outbreak spread quickly.

“It was like on Twitter and stuff,” said Abel Reyes, a junior, “That there was a rash going around and stuff and they had to evacuate some students.”

Hollywood Fire Rescue immediately quarantined the classroom from other students and evacuated the rest of the building. Students were escorted to the gym while the rest of the school was put on lockdown.

Some concerned parents who heard about the situation, went to the school to pick up their kids.

“I called the school and they told me the kids that were affected, they called the parents already and the rest of the kids are just on lockdown for now,” said Rhonda Lazcano. “My concern is that it could be in another classroom.”

Vivian Negron said she called her friend who was one of the affected students.

“He told me it started as a rash on his arm and then spread to his leg; it was red and blistering,” Negron said.

The students and teachers who developed rashes were taken to Memorial Regional Hospital where they went through a decontamination process. As their rashes cleared they were released and allowed to take their clothing home in plastic bags.

Students still remain hesitant about returning to the classroom.

“I’m hoping that everything is okay and they did everything in their power to make it better and safe,” said Sean Campbel, a concerned student.

“I don’t want to go in the 900 building… I have class there,” said Jahun Love, another student.

So what caused the outbreak?

“It was reading room and no chemicals were found,” said Hollywood Fire battalion chief Joel Medina, “We did a sweep of the room and there were no chemicals housed there. It’s an irritant, but we’re not sure what it was.”

One woman told CBS4 that her niece had been tested for hundreds of different substances, but nothing was identified that could have caused the outbreak.

There were few details available. Her family released a statement after her death was reported.

“Early this morning, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith,” said the statement.

“While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Words truly can’t express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time.”

TMZ.com, which first reported news of her death, said that she died in Florida. Summer has a beach house near Venice, Florida, which is south of Sarasota.

She performed in South Florida at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood in August of 2010 following a sellout show in 2009.

Born Donna Gaines, the Boston native developed an early interest in music. Summer, known as the Queen of Disco, was a 5-time Grammy winner who shot to superstardom in the ’70s with iconic hits like “Last Dance,” “Hot Stuff” and “Bad Girls.” She continued her dominance in the ’80s with “She Works Hard for the Money” and “This Time I Know It’s for Real.”

Summer holds the record for most consecutive double albums to hit #1 on the Billboard charts (three) and first female to have four #1 singles in a 12- month period; three as a solo artist and one as a duo with Barbra Streisand. She won 6 American Music Awards and 11 gold albums. It is estimated that Donna Summer has sold more than 130 million records worldwide.

The Daily Beast reported that Summer had worked to keep news of her illness out of the media as she tried to work on a new album. Her last CD, Crayons, was released in 2008.

Summer married Brooklyn Dreams singer Bruce Sudano  in 1980. They had two daughters together.

Prosecutors said Kaufman strangled his wife, Lina, in the bathroom of their home. The defense claims she had a heart attack.

On Thursday, the defense successfully attacked the morals and honesty of Detective Ana Howell, the lead CSI investigator for the Aventura police department.

Howell had an adulterous affair with the lead homicide detective on the case, Anthony Angulo.

“I am married and have three kids. My job is very important to me,” Howell said from the witness stand, obviously uncomfortable. “This is very important to me, Sir, because this is my life here,” she told defense attorney William Matthewman.

Under withering questioning, Howell admitted to carrying on with her fellow detective as they investigated the alleged murder.

“Did you have an affair with Detective Angulo,” Matthewman asked?

“Yes and my husband is well aware of it, Sir, and I am happily married and I don’t have any issues with that any longer,” said Howell.

On the stand, Howell admitted lying in earlier testimony; not being truthful about her relationship with the fellow cop.

The defense called Howell a perjurer, asking if she misrepresented the facts under oath.

“Yes or no, Ma’am, is that true,” Matthewman asked.

“Yes,” she replied.

It was a damaging moment for the prosecution, a “gotcha” moment for the defense and a humiliating moment for Howel who stormed from the courtroom slamming the door behind her.

The case started in November 2007 when a hysterical Adam Kaufman called 911 and said that he had awakened after a night of sleep to find his wife in the bathroom, unconscious, her neck draped over a bar on a magazine rack.

Prosecutor Joe Mansfield maintains Lina Kaufman was a perfectly healthy woman at the time of her death and there are several inconsistencies in Kaufman’s story that he woke up and found his wife dead.

First, according to Mansfield, Kaufman was “standing in the bedroom fully dressed” when paramedics arrived at their home. Mansfield said that didn’t jive with Kaufman’s story in which he said woke after a night of sleep to find his wife unconscious and not breathing in the bathroom; slumped off the toilet, her neck draped on magazine rack.

Mansfield said according to police when they arrived at Kaufman residence, his car was hot to the touch which suggested that he had recently arrived home.

The defense said that the state has offered no motive, not even a vague theory, as to why Kaufman would want to kill his wife.

Kaufman, who is free on half million dollar, could be sentenced to life in prison if he is convicted.

Those arrested and charged are Joy Greene, 44, her son Darin Greene, 22, and accomplice Dontrel Gosha, 23, according to North Miami Beach Police.

The first crime Joy Greene is connected to took place on February 19th.

Doris Saint-Louis was paying her respects to a deceased relative at a grave site in Southern Memorial Gardens Cemetery at 15100 NE 18th Avenue when someone stole her purse from inside her car. Soon after the theft, someone forged bank checks that were inside her purse.

Those checks were later found in the possession of Joy Greene, of Opa-Locka when she was taken into custody at the scene of an attempted vehicle burglary in North Miami Beach on May 8th, according to police.

Dontrel Gosha (Source: Miami-Dade Corrections)

Police said Greene was in a car with her son Darin and Dontrel Gosha when they tried to steal a purse from a woman’s car outside the Aventura Learning Center, located at 2320 NE 171st Street.

All three were charged with taking part in the vehicle burglary attempt. Joy Greene was also charged with dealing in stolen property stemming from the cemetery theft and forging of the checks. Darin Greene also faces an additional charge of possession of a burglary tool.

“The concerns are that this is becoming an epidemic nationwide. South Florida is being inundated with vehicle burglaries. These people are targeting victims that are not really paying attention to what is going on,” said North Miami Beach Police spokesman Thomas Carney.

The investigation also revealed Joy Greene, has a drug addiction and the money from the vehicle burglaries was used in part to support her drug habit. Greene also had outstanding warrants for other crimes in various fake names.

Carney described the cemetery theft as pathetic.

“It’s emotional enough that you are going to a relative’s gravesite and you might not be thinking clearly and you may not want to carry all that stuff with you and the criminal knows that, they’re going to follow you in,” said Carney. “You just have to be aware of your surroundings, pay attention to what’s going on, lock your car and don’t leave anything visible in your car. If you have to, put it in a trunk temporarily.”

The North Miami Beach Police Department wants to remind people about their “Park Smart” program. They’ve placed stickers on local gas station pumps and other areas targeted by thieves that remind and warn drivers not to leave any personal belongings inside their vehicles.

It happened April 28th, just before midnight at Moon Thai on Weston Road. Surveillance video from the restaurant showed two armed masked men enter through a back door. They then herded the employees into the women’s restroom. As one of the men held the employees at gunpoint, his partner went into the dining room and rifled through the shelves near the register. He then got a female employee from the bathroom and brought her out to open the register for him.

After taking an undisclosed amount of cash and some personal property from the employees, the two men took off in a 2010 Honda Insight that belonged to one of the managers.

Davie police found the car while the investigators were still at the robbery scene.

Detectives arrested Luis Olivares-Rosaria, 37, of Davie; Michael Corrales, 23, of Davie and Cesar Campozano, 17, of Plantation. They were all charged with robbery with a firearm and wearing a mask during the commission of a felony.

The Heat know that LeBron and Wade will give them 20 to 30 points per night and can carry most of the scoring load. But the team also knows that having to have LeBron serve as the power forward through long stretches on the defensive end and run the point is not a plan for success.

“It’s a lot more taxing being in there with bigger guys,” James told CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald. “Defensively is the biggest difference. When you’re on the perimeter, there’s more space. The interior is more cramped and physical. But I’m ready for the challenge.”

He may be ready, but the rest of the team outside of Wade has been as TNT analyst Charles Barkley would say, “turrible.”

The Heat’s role players haven’t been able to get anything going offensively since the playoffs began. Mike Miller and Shane Battier are shooting 33 percent and 32.3 percent respectively. The Heat could survive and thrive on if one or both of them could get nine points a night.

Some fans have called for guard James Jones to get more minutes to help with the offensive drought the Heat are putting together this year. But when Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra put Jones into the lineup for 10 minutes in Game 2, Jones responded with a 1-4 shooting performance and he’s shooting 29 percent over his last 61 shots.

That means the burden will likely fall on three players’ shoulders: point guards Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole and forward Udonis Haslem.

Udonis hasn’t been able to dial into his shot all season and hasn’t played consistent minutes showing the burst he used to display in his long career in Miami. Udonis has routinely passed up jump shots to defer to Wade and LeBron and has played without much aggression throughout the season.

Norris Cole got on the court for the Heat in Game 2 for 17 minutes and responded by hitting both of his shots and not turning the ball over. But, Cole being a rookie known for having his pedal to the floor at all times could make Spoelstra nervous about keeping him in the game long-term.

That leaves Mario Chalmers as the possible key to the Heat’s chances of stealing Game 3 and regaining home court advantage in the series. Chalmers played 22 minutes in Game 2 and shot 20 percent from the field and 50 percent from the foul line.

If Chamlers is able to hit 2 or 3 three pointers, the Heat’s offense takes on a completely different look. The Pacers defense will have to move out from the low post and that will open up lanes for LeBron and Wade to attack.

That’s been the plan for the Heat since the Big Three arrived and it worked to perfection with Chris Bosh in the lineup. But with Bosh out an indefinite period of time, the Heat have to have someone other than LeBron and Wade hit shots.

Chalmers has a penchant for hitting big shots, ask the University of Memphis. But he’s going to have to be able to hit shots consistently for the Heat to have any shot of not going down 2-1 in the series.

The other area the Heat need to improve on greatly is free throw shooting. LeBron missed two critical free throws down the stretch and Wade has struggled at times from the free throw line during the series.

Wade shot well in Game 2, hitting 80 percent of his free throws. But if LeBron and Wade struggle, you may see the Pacers start hacking away on both players knowing they can win by putting them on the line.

The Heat aren’t out of this series, yet. But everything rides on the shoulders of the cast around LeBron and Wade. If they can’t raise their game though and Bosh can’t get back for Game 4, the Heat may spend another season wondering what if.

A change of plea hearing is set for Wednesday for 20-year-old Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr. He had previously pleaded not guilty.

Federal prosecutors say Serrapio posted threats on Facebook in February coinciding with a speech Obama gave at the University of Miami. Serrapio attends Miami-Dade College.

One post threatened to put a bullet in the president’s head. Another asked if anyone wanted to help with a presidential assassination.

Serrapio operated the Facebook page under the alias “Jay Valor.”

Secret Service agents, according to the federal complaint, also found disturbing text messages on his phone which challenged the Secret Service and said he’d “kill at least two of them.”

Click here to read the entire federal complaint.

There’s no indication Serrapio intended to act on the threats. His lawyer Alan Ross has said Serrapio never wanted to hurt the president and only intended it as a joke.

Ross said Serrapio regrets what happened and has apologized to the President and the United States Secret Service.

Serrapio faces a maximum five-year maximum prison sentence.

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Her passion for plies and pirouettes has led this teen far from home and all she’s known.

“This opportunity is so good for me because I want to be a good dancer,” Mayumi said.

Enokibara juggles full-time studies in ballet with her academic studies in high school. She left Brazil wither family’s blessings to make her dreams come true.

“We are taking them out of their homes, we are taking them away from their families, therefore we need to provide some kind of embrace,” said Miami City Ballet Artistic Director Edward Villella.

“I’m so close with my family and it’s hard. I’m only 15, this is hard for me,” said Enokibara.

Hard is an understatement. She arrived in Miami Beach without knowing anyone, much less having mastered English. At 15, she’s learning how to take care of herself and her journey has just begun

“It takes 8 to 10 years to train a dancer,” Villella said.

But she is certainly off on the right foot.

At the Annual Student Ballet Showcase next weekend, Enokibara will have a starring role in George Balanchine’s “Serenade” which will be presented on Saturday evening, May 19th at 7 p.m. and again Sunday afternoon, May 20th at 2 pm. Enokibara will perform the role of ‘Waltz Girl’.

The program will feature MCB students, from beginning-intermediate through advanced, performing original jazz pieces choreographed by faculty members Rafi Maldonado-Lopez and Liz Malm. For many students these performances will be their grand finale before entering careers as professional dancers at ballet companies around the nation including MCB.

For more information on the showcase and to purchase tickets – Click Here.

The Celtics captain put in 24 points in Boston’s 101-91 Game 3 victory over the 76ers in Philadelphia, putting his knee injury behind him and getting aggressive when it came to pretty much every aspect of the game.

“Whether I shot the ball well or not, everything I was going to do was being with aggression,” Pierce said.

Aggressive might be an understatement. Pierce was in attack mode early on, even if his shots weren’t falling. Early in the first quarter, he missed four shots from close range, but it was the fact he fought for the three put-backs in the paint that showed he was determined to make a difference after scoring just seven points in Boston’s Game 2 loss.

He continued to go strong to the basket, following up his early misses with two ferocious dunks. Pierce finishing with nine points in the first 12 minutes of the game. He ended up hitting six of his 17 attempts from the floor, but did most of his damage at — and getting to — the free throw line. After just two trips to the charity stripe on Monday, Pierce found his way to the line 14 times in Game 3, scoring 11 of his points at the line.

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He made it known to all of Philly when he was making his way to the line, following each drive to the hoop with an aggressive scream that would make Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart” jealous.

“Everything I was going to do was going to be aggressive because they were really collapsing on me on the down-screens, on my jumpers,” said Pierce. “I just tried to get to the hole and I was able to get to the line; able to get to the rim a number of times. It’s something I have to continue to do.”

“Paul is just a grinder,” head coach Doc Rivers said following the win. “He really is. You look at him at times and you wonder, ‘How is this guy getting open?’ He just has great fundamentals. He never does it with speed. He just knows how to play basketball. He’s a throwback guy, that he knows how to play basketball. We jokingly call him our ‘professional scorer’ and that’s what he is in a lot of ways.”

“[Pierce] played great for us tonight,” said point guard Rajon Rondo, who scored 23 points of his own while dishing out 14 assists. “Paul has been struggling scoring, but he has been doing the intangibles. On those [first-quarter] drives, he didn’t get some calls early in the game and thought they were fouls, so he went out and was aggressive and finished strong.”

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Pierce had been just 5-for-20 in the series in the first two games, but helped the Celtics send a message as they took a 2-1 series lead. While he only added four assists, he credited the team’s ball movement for getting the offense going.

“Our offense finally came alive,” Pierce said. “We moved the ball. We knew that’s what we were going to have to do to score 100 points.”

“We just wanted to come out and establish who we are as a team,” Pierce said.

They certainly did that. Now they just need to keep it going on Friday night.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Kevin Durant scored 22 points and rattled in the go-ahead basket on a baseline runner with 18 seconds left, and the Oklahoma City Thunder scored the final nine points to rally for a 77-75 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals Wednesday night.

Oklahoma City trailed by seven with 2 minutes left before surging back with a series of defensive stops by its stars to take a 2-0 lead.

Game 3 is Friday night in Los Angeles.

Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum scored 20 points apiece for the Lakers, who came up empty on their last six possessions after Bynum’s hook shot made it 75-68 with 2:09 remaining.

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After struggling throughout the second half, the Thunder suddenly came alive after Scott Brooks called timeout following Bynum’s basket that gave Los Angeles its largest lead of the game.

James Harden drove for a layup before Durant used his height advantage to reach up and tip away a pass from Bryant, who he was guarding. Durant ran out for a right-handed dunk at the other end before Russell Westbrook forced another turnover by aggressively challenging an outlet pass to Bryant along the sideline.

Harden made the next stop, blocking Bryant’s jumper on the next Lakers possession and getting a layup in transition off it to cut the deficit to one in the final minute.

Bryant couldn’t connect again, this time on a 3-pointer, to give the Thunder the ball back with the chance to take the lead and Durant was able to make it happen.

Steve Blake missed a 3-pointer from the right side with about 5 seconds left after Metta World Peace couldn’t get the ball to Bryant on the inbounds play. Durant was then fouled with 0.3 seconds left and made his first try before missing the second on purpose – failing to hit the backboard or rim for a violation.

The Lakers got a desperation try but World Peace’s long pass for Bynum was intercepted by Harden.

Westbrook added 15 points for Oklahoma City, which matched its lowest scoring total of the season but still gutted out the win.

Historically, the loss makes a huge difference. Los Angeles is 29-12 when splitting the first two games of a seven-game series and has lost 17 of 19 when falling into a 2-0 hole. The Lakers’ last comeback was in the 2004 West semifinals against San Antonio.

The Thunder have won all nine of their series after leading 2-0, dating back to the franchise’s days in Seattle.

In a game that was nip-and-tuck throughout, the Lakers started inching away early in the fourth quarter while Westbrook was on the bench.

Bryant drilled a jumper from the left wing and Blake followed with a 3-pointer before World Peace hit one of two free throws for a 69-63 advantage with 7:27 remaining – the Lakers’ largest lead to that point.

Westbrook returned then but only provided the briefest of sparks for the struggling Oklahoma City offense, and Bynum’s second straight basket – on a left-handed hook shot at the left block – made it 75-68 with 2:09 to play.

Until that point, Oklahoma City had made only 7 of 27 shots in the second half while committing eight turnovers.

After getting ripped apart by the Thunder’s pick-and-roll attack and giving up 119 points in Game 1, the Lakers made it an emphasis to put up more resistance in the rematch and it showed. Matt Barnes shuffled back and forth around three Nick Collison screens to contest Harden’s jumper and preserve the Lakers’ 22-21 lead after one quarter.

The Lakers’ defense was at its best just after halftime as they got out of a 48-45 deficit by holding Oklahoma City scoreless for the first 4 minutes and allowing just two baskets in the first 8 minutes. But Los Angeles still couldn’t create any sort of a cushion and Westbrook’s wide-open 3-pointer from the left corner – after World Peace airballed a similar shot on the opposite end – had the Thunder back within 57-56 with 3:31 left in the third.

Notes: The NBA on Wednesday fined Devin Ebanks $25,000 for actions related to his Game 1 ejection and Bynum $15,000 for failing to speak to reporters Tuesday. Bynum, who has had recent disciplinary issues within the team, talked at the Lakers’ morning shootaround Wednesday and called it a make up for skipping the previous day. “I think he’s learning. Is he going to be a perfect citizen the rest of his career? I don’t know,” coach Mike Brown said. “He’s bound to make mistakes. I think everybody makes mistakes.” … World Peace has said he supported Scott Brooks to become Sacramento’s coach back in 2007, when Brooks had been an assistant under Eric Musselman. “Little does he know, if I would have got the job, I was going to ask for him to be traded,” Brooks joked. He then called World Peace, or Ron Artest at the time, the third-best two-way player at the time behind Bryant and Kevin Garnett. … Harden caught World Peace with an inadvertent elbow to the face in the first quarter.

According to the Fox News poll, President Obama currently leads Romney by seven points, 46-39. Romney’s supports dropped from 46 percent in the last Fox News poll in the last week of April to the current 39 percent.

But the poll doesn’t close the book on Romney. According to the poll, the numbers of people who weren’t sure who they were going to vote for jumped to 8 percent. If Romney is able to capture that entire block, he can win the election.

Deeper in the numbers, Romney hasn’t been able to spark a loyal following among his supporters just yet. The poll found that 43 percent of the supporters of Romney don’t necessarily like him or his policies; they just don’t like Obama.

Romney has hitched his wagon to the economy, but his message isn’t resonating just yet with voters. The Fox News poll found both candidates in a statistical tie, with Romney claiming a slight edge, on doing a better job of creating new jobs, but 15 percent of those surveyed said they didn’t know or that neither would do a better job creating jobs.

The poll found 46 percent preferred that Obama would select the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, while 38 percent supported Mitt Romney.

President Obama saw his highest approval ratings since the death of Osama bin Laden in the new poll. Forty-nine percent approved of Obama’s job performance as President, while 47 percent disapproved.

When pollsters asked if they had a favorable or unfavorable view of the Democrat, Republican, and the tea party movement; Democrats came out ahead.

Democrats were viewed favorably by 48 percent of the voters, while 45 percent favored Republicans, and 46 percent disapproved of the tea party.

They played at our theme parks, sunned themselves on our beaches and spent tons of money.

Visit Florida, the state’s marketing division, said Thursday that preliminary numbers show in the first three months of this year there was 2.4 percent increase in tourism compared to the same period last year. Those 23.4 million visitors included a 2.7-percent increase in Canadian tourists and a 13-percent increase in people visiting from overseas. There was also a 1.2 percent increase in domestic visitors.

“On the heels of a record year for the Florida tourism industry in 2011, it’s encouraging to see the trend of more visitors and more jobs extending into 2012,” said Governor Rick Scott.

Tourism employment showed growth for the 24th straight month, with the industry adding more than 19,000 jobs in the past year.

“We know that every 85 visitors support one Florida job, so the continued increase in travelers to our great state equals a strengthened Florida economy and much-needed employment,” said Tony Lapi, president of Visit Florida’s board of directors.

Tourism and recreation taxable sales saw and increase in January and February 2012 (last reported month), representing an 8.7 percent increase over the same period in 2011.

As the state’s leading industry, tourism generates $60 billion annually and keeps more than a million people employed.

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According to numbers released Thursday, the Romney campaign raised $40.1 million in the first month since he became the de facto nominee for the Republican Party. Those numbers are comparable to President Obama’s $43.6 million raised in April.

For Romney, his campaign received a major boost in April thanks to all of the other candidates suspending their campaigns, making him the de facto candidate. In March, Romney raised $12.6 million when he was still fighting for the nomination.

Currently, Romney and the Republican National Committee have $61.4 million in cash on hand. President Obama’s campaign hasn’t released the full cash on hand numbers.

For Obama, his task is to try to revitalize his ground game and once again get the minority and youth vote completely behind him. If Republicans are able to siphon off a good amount of voters in either category, Obama’s re-election campaign is likely to come up short.

It worked twice, and the Eastern Conference finals are all even, as a result.

David Clarkson scored a tip-in goal off Adam Henrique’s shot 2:31 into the third period to break a tie and lift the Devils to a 3-2 victory over the Rangers that squared the series at one game apiece on Wednesday night.

“It’s a very hard building to play in, and 1-1 sounds much better than down 2-0,” Devils captain Zach Parise said. “We’re happy. We would have liked to have snuck out of here with two wins, but it didn’t happen.

“We’ll take 1-1.”

For the third straight series, the Rangers are wondering what went wrong in Game 2 after they took the opener. They stressed how important it would be to grab a 2-0 lead, which would have been their first two-game edge in this postseason, but didn’t provide the necessary effort to get it done.

New York was riding high after its 3-0 series-opening win on Monday night, but now has relinquished home-ice advantage again.

“You need to improve as a hockey team every game,” said succinct and disappointed coach John Tortorella, who declined to say what areas were deficient.

Game 3 will be Saturday in New Jersey.

Clarkson built off the momentum created by Ryan Carter’s deflected goal late in the second that tied the game, 2-2. Ilya Kovalchuk had given the Devils a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal in the first. Defenseman Bryce Salvador added two assists, and Martin Brodeur stopped 23 saves for his 108th playoff win.

Clarkson has three goals in this postseason, and every one has been a winner, including the clincher against Philadelphia in Game 5 of the second round.

“Mr. Clutch? I don’t know about that,” Clarkson said. “I’m going to skate up and down and finish the checks and just bounce off people. It’s just a great feeling to be able to contribute. To get a tip on that felt pretty good.”

New Jersey had 26 attempted shots blocked in Game 1, five more than they got through to goalie Henrik Lundqvist. The Devils cut the blocks to 16 on Wednesday and managed to get 27 on goal — two more than New York.

“That team blocks so many shots,” Clarkson said. “It’s unbelievable how many. I think we found a way to shoot it and get sticks on it, and definitely that was big for us.”

Marc Staal and Chris Kreider scored power-play goals in the second for the top-seeded Rangers, who received 24 saves by Lundqvist.

New Jersey got even at 2 when Salvador wound up for a shot at the blue line and fired a drive that Carter — with his back to the net — brilliantly deflected past Lundqvist with 1:51 left in the second. Marian Gaborik stood up straight in front of Salvador, but didn’t drop down as many of his teammates have to try to block the shot. For that, he was pinned to the bench by Tortorella, even through New York’s power play in the third.

Gaborik returned to the ice with 8:40 remaining as the Rangers pressed to tie.

The Devils kept the pressure on the Rangers at the start of the third and wiped out the good work the Rangers displayed in the second.

“It was a much different reaction when we went down by a goal than it was in the first game,” Parise said. “We didn’t change the way we played, and I think that was a big difference. We were comfortable with how we were playing.

“All I think they got was really on their power play.”

After spending much of the first trapped in their own end, the Rangers rebounded to erase their early deficit and briefly take the lead thanks to the previously inept power play.

With Alexei Ponikarovsky off for interference, Staal fired a shot that sailed wide of the net and struck the back boards before popping back in front and pinballing into the net off Salvador and Brodeur at 2:23. The goal was originally credited to Derek Stepan, who was in front, but the puck managed to miss him both on the way toward the net and on the bounce back.

“I saw most of the pucks, but the Rangers came out hard,” Brodeur said. “They were around me a lot, and there were some bad bounces. It’s such a tough place to play sometimes here. There are bad bounces, and the boards are terrible.”

Staal nearly netted another moments later when he ripped a drive that Brodeur had to lunge fully to his left to snare with his glove.

Kreider, the rookie from Boston College, scored for the second straight game to give the Rangers a 2-1 lead at 12:19. Anton Stralman let go a shot from above the right circle that ticked Kreider’s stick and fluttered past Brodeur for the rookie’s fourth goal. He had to wait to get it because it was first given to Stralman before being changed during a commercial break.

But that was hardly the longest delay of the night. Before Kreider’s power-play goal, the action was stopped for about eight minutes as arena workers struggled to get the door to the Devils’ penalty box opened. Travis Zajac stood patiently as he waited to have a seat in the box. He even managed to laugh as did New Jersey coach Peter DeBoer and the usually stoic and agitated Tortorella.

Zajac, who first was sent to the Rangers’ box, stayed in New Jersey’s sin bin for only 1:47 before Kreider scored the Rangers’ second power-play goal of the night.

New York registered the first six shots of the period before New Jersey had its first about eight minutes in, but the teams were even at 17 through 40 minutes.

Lundqvist had a bit of glove magic of his own midway through the second when a shot by Anton Volchenkov was deflected by Kovalchuk but tracked and grabbed by Lundqvist.

The Devils got their elusive first goal of the series, and the all-important lead in the game, when Kovalchuk connected on the power play late in the first period.

After Brian Boyle was sent off for slashing Parise, the Devils continued their puck-possession prowess in the Rangers’ end. New Jersey moved the puck all around the zone in search of a clean shot that could get past the diving New York defense and perhaps challenge Lundqvist, who made 21 saves in the series-opening win.

Marek Zidlicky curled with the puck to the center of the blue line and slid a pass down to the left circle to Kovalchuk, who calmly and patiently drifted in and snapped a shot up and under the crossbar in the upper corner of the net for his sixth goal of the playoffs and fourth on the power play.

“We had to keep going to the net, and I think we were doing some good things,” Clarkson said. “We’ve been playing some good hockey and we’ve got to continue to do it. That is a big win for us.”

The Devils didn’t record a shot on goal until 6:01 in when Patrik Elias put a wrist shot in on Lundqvist, but New Jersey finished the first period with an 8-5 edge in shots — despite having six more blocked by the Rangers.

Whether Brodeur was kidding or not about wanting Rangers to be injured by blocking shots, the home team wasn’t deterred from getting in front of drives. New York forward Brandon Prust was doing a bit of a dance in front of the dangerous Kovalchuk, trying to deny any potential drive, even though he was defending without a stick.

“We have to try to get in lanes,” Rangers captain Ryan Callahan said. “Try to limit their time with the puck. If we do that, they are not going to have time to shoot.”

When Kovalchuk finally scored later in the period, he let out a big yell — part celebration and an exclamation of relief — as he skated in front of the glass behind the net.

“We have built some momentum,” Brodeur said. “And now, we have to try to take that into our building, and make our building a tough place to play.”

NOTES: The Rangers were 10 for 61 (16.4 percent) on the power play in the postseason before Wednesday. This marked the second time they netted a man-advantage goal in consecutive games, but the fourth time they scored two in a game. … The Devils returned defenseman Peter Harrold to the lineup and sat rookie Adam Larsson. Harrold replaced Larsson in the lineup late in the season and started the first nine postseason games. Larsson played in the previous five games.

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No ticket matched all 6 numbers drawn Wednesday evening in the Florida Lotto, nor did anyone match all 5 winning numbers plus the Powerball number in the multi-state game. That means that the jackpots for both games will be rolling over for Saturday’s drawings.

In Powerball, the winning numbers were 3-7-21-28-43; the Powerball number was 2.

Thousands of other tickets matched lesser winning Powerball combinations.

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This Saturday the estimated jackpot for the Florida Lotto will be $3 million.

The winning numbers drawn Wednesday were 2-27-43-44-47-52.

Twenty tickets matched five numbers to win $5,514.50 each; 1,212 tickets matched four numbers for $90.50 each; and 26,169 tickets matched three numbers for $5.50 each.

Quote of the Day:
“Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” –Muhammad Ali

Miami Heat: (@ Indiana Pacers, Game 3, 7:00 p.m.)
The Miami Heat take the court again tonight hoping to make Tuesday’s debacle a flash in the pan that doesn’t reflect the overall team.
If you don’t know what I’m about to say about how the Heat should win….why are you not reading the agenda every day?
The bottom line is someone from the following group of players has to get into double-figures tonight:
Mike Miller, Shane Battier, Mario Chalmers, Udonis Haslem.
Out of that group, I’d lean towards Chalmers being the most likely to get to double figures.
But the Heat have to have some help for LeBron and D-Wade.
No matter how great they are, they can’t beat Indiana with just the two of them scoring.
In Game 2, LeBron and Wade scored 21 of the Heat’s 23 points in the fourth quarter.
Look, there are two of the best in the world, but it’s not going to work if the rest of the team can’t put the ball in the hole.
I was tempted to leave Miller off the list because he’s washed up at this point in his career.
Udonis Haslem should still be able to give you a double-double a night if he’s playing to his potential, but his shot has been just awful this year.
Battier can score in bunches, but he has been throwing up airballs recently and well, that’s far from what the Heat need.
That’s why I picked Chalmers, and maybe his point guard running mate Norris Cole, as the players who can give the team a spark in scoring.
Let me put it this way…if the Heat have LeBron and Wade at their best and get 10 points from Chalmers and/or someone else, this series is over.
As for Chris Bosh….
I’m beginning to think his season is done.
When I looked at the injury again, he reached for his abdomen and his groin.
If he hurt one of the muscles that stretches between the two, he can’t shoot, run, and so forth.
Plus, if he was going to be available, the Heat would have put a timeline on his recovery.
So it looks like we’re going to find out just how good LeBron and Wade’s supporting cast are.
If Game 2 was an indication, my gut tells me LeBron and D-Wade may be watching the Conference and NBA Finals on television.
I said at the beginning of the Big Three, the salaries they are paid is going to kill the overall team.
If the three of them had agreed to take say $5 million less per season, the Heat would have lots of wiggle room to go get some great role players.
As it is now, LeBron and D-Wade may not be able to hoist a trophy this year.

Miami Marlins: (@Atlanta Braves, 7:05 p.m.)
Man, I guess all the Marlins have to do is go on the road and they beat the snot out of people.
Mark Buehrle continues to pitch like the ace of the staff and Giancarlo Stanton continues to hit BOMBS on the road.
I love the way Omar Infante is playing.
He’s leading the team in average at .336 and went 3-5 last night and scored twice.
Here’s what I don’t like…
Gaby Sanchez and John Buck.
Both are hitting around the Mendoza line and I think if the Marlins could, they’d send Sanchez down.
Thing is, they don’t have a capable backup at first base, so they have to ride out Sanchez’s slump.
I don’t know what to do with Buck, because he’s a solid catcher defensively, he just can’t hit for anything this season.
I’m talking he has a .198 average and left four men on base last night while striking out twice.
Guh.
The teams go at it again tonight with the Marlins sending out Ricky Nolasco to face the Bravos.
Fun facts from the Fish:
They are now tied for third in the NL East with the Mets.
Nolasco and Steve Cishek lead the pitching staff with 4 wins on the season.

Football notes:
Things are getting ugly in New Orleans. The Saints won’t sign Drew Brees to a long-term extension. I don’t want to say that’s STUPID, but even George W. Bush knows that it’s a good financial decision to keep Brees.
Cleveland Browns running back Trent Richardson said he will continue to seek out contact and run through tackles for a 16 game season. Yeah…right.
Brandon Marshall thinks the Bears have the best leader in Jay Cutler. Well, he would know with the lack of leadership for the Dolphins the last few years.
The Big Ten won’t let the Rose Bowl go and will force everyone to abide by that. Yknow, I think the BCS and such should have a majority rule vote and that way no one conference can submarine the process.
Trouble ahead for the BCS is that the ACC wants only conference champions to be eligible for the National Championship playoff. That’s fitting since most of their conference champions wouldn’t be in the top 4 anyways. It won’t happen though, it’s going to be either a selection committee (my preference) or the top 4 ranked teams in some sort of computer/human hybrid poll.
Mizzou is fitting right in with the SEC. Their backup quarterback, who could be the starter if James Franklin hasn’t recovered from shoulder surgery, Corbin Berkstresser was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident. Apparently he hit a 1990’s Oldsmobile and caused more than $1,000 worth of damage and left the scene. My question, how do you cause $1,000 worth of damage to a car that probably isn’t worth $1,000?

The gift is the largest given to the museum by an artist and is the second largest from an individual, officials said. It will fund the Taylor Swift Education Center, an exhibit and classroom space scheduled to open in 2014.

“In terms of what it will allow us to do, we do education very well now,” museum director Kyle Young said. “It will allow us to do what we do better, serve more people, develop new programs and I’m happy to say that as we talked through this opportunity with Taylor, she very much wants to be involved in an advisory capacity in what we do. Is there a better person out there who’s in touch with a young audience? I think not. I was joking we should be paying her to do that. I was only joking.”

The new education center is part of the museum’s $75 million “Working on a Building” expansion project that will increase the space more than 200,000 square feet to 350,000. The expansion is part of the new convention center project in downtown Nashville and will include a new concert theater, more room for exhibits and archives, and a shared entrance with a new hotel.

Swift’s education center will have its own exterior entrance and is 7,500 square feet-plus spread over two stories. It will include three classrooms and exhibit space and will allow the museum to add to its youth education programs. The new space will house interactive activities such as a musical petting zoo and a “wet” classroom space to make concert posters and other art projects. The expansion also would allow the museum to start new programs and workshops and for teens and senior citizens as well as continuing workshops.

The 22-year-old singer-songwriter is country music’s top-selling artist and current ambassador to the world. The six-time Grammy winner is a two-time winner of both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music entertainer of the year awards and has taken the genre to Asia, Europe and Australia as well as the top of the U.S. pop charts.

She has a long history with the museum. One of her first public performances was on the building’s plaza. She signed her record contract there. And she has donated her time to the museum’s “All For The Hall” fundraisers.

“For Taylor to want to engage herself in the life of this place in such an appropriate way … every way you slice it and dice it, it’s great for this place,” Young said.

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The right fielder had the biggest hit of the game — a two-run homer, but what really impressed Guillen was his diving catch that saved at least two runs in Miami’s 8-4 win over Atlanta Wednesday night.

With Miami leading 3-1 in the fourth, the Braves had runners on second and third with two outs following singles by Dan Uggla and Brian McCann. Jason Heyward hit a drive that looked like a sure two-run double before Stanton, running at full speed toward the foul line, made a diving catch. Stanton landed about one foot in front of the warning track.

“You make a play like that, it’s kind of like you hit a home run to win the game,” Guillen said. “It’s the same thing.”

Stanton said at first he didn’t realize how hard Heyward hit the ball.

“I just put my head down and ran to a spot and dove for it,” he said.

On Tuesday night, Stanton robbed Pittsburgh’s Garrett Jones with a leaping catch before hitting the right-field wall.

Stanton said the catch of Heyward’s line drive was bigger.

“This one was way better than the one last night,” Stanton said. “This one saved two runs. The other one was just a good catch.”

His play has helped the Marlins put together an impressive May record.

Miami is 12-3 this month after a slow 8-14 start in April. The Marlins (20-17) moved three games over .500 for the first time this season.

“The difference this month is we get big hits because we’re pitching the same,” Guillen said.

The Marlins led 6-1 off struggling Braves left-hander Mike Minor before Atlanta scored three runs off Mark Buehrle in the sixth. Stanton’s eighth homer, which drove in Kearns after his second double, pushed the lead to 8-4 in the seventh.

Buehrle (3-4) gave up four runs on six hits in six innings with the win in the first meeting of the season between the NL East rivals.

“I was a little disappointed in myself to let them get back in it in the sixth inning after we had a big lead,” Buehrle said, adding “I don’t feel like I should have won.”

Austin Kearns and Emilio Bonifacio each had two hits and drove in two runs. Omar Infante had two hits and scored two runs.

Minor (2-3) gave up six runs on six hits in 4 2-3 innings, the fourth straight start he has allowed six or more runs. He gave up three runs in the fourth and three more in the fifth, leaving his ERA at 7.09.

Despite his struggles, manager Fredi Gonzalez said he is sticking with the 24-year-old Minor.

“I thought the first three innings, he did whatever he wanted through that lineup,” Gonzalez said, adding “and then it unravels on him. It’s a little complex.

“You feel like he’s getting it and all of a sudden those type of innings happen to him. … But that’s a young pitcher. We have to be patient with him and get him through those type of innings. I think he’ll be better off at the other end, when he gets through those innings.”

If Minor’s struggles continue, possible options for the Braves include Livan Hernandez and Kris Medlen, who could move from the bullpen, and Julio Teheran at Triple-A Gwinnett.

Kearns had a two-run double in the Marlins’ three-run fourth. Minor was knocked out of the game after giving up three hits, including a run-scoring single by Gaby Sanchez, in the fifth. Bonifacio added his second RBI single of the game off reliever Cristhian Martinez.

Rookie shortstop Tyler Pastornicky hit leadoff for the first time as Gonzalez rested centerfielder Michael Bourn.

Pastornicky, the normal No. 8 hitter, led off the first with a single, moved to third on Martin Prado’s double and scored on Freddie Freeman’s groundout to first base.

Buehrle retired 10 straight batters after the double by Prado, who had three hits.

Heath Bell pitched the ninth in a non-save situation for Miami.

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Bill Read, outgoing director of the National Hurricane Center, also believes the ability to predict a storms intensity will remain a challenge for the next chief of the NHC.

Read joined Florida’s emergency managers in Fort Lauderdale at the annual Governor’s Hurricane Conference to reexamine Andrew’s legacy. The Category 5 hurricane remains one of the most expensive natural disasters ever in the United States.

While forecasters have significantly improved their ability to predict a storm’s path, giving coastal residents more time to prepare or get out of its way, the remaining challenge is to see a day or two in advance how big a storm could be or whether a storm will rapidly intensify the way Andrew did as the hurricane approached the Bahamas and Florida in 1992, director Bill Read said.

“That’s been still an area we haven’t made much gains on,” Read said.

The important lesson Florida learned from the 1992 storm was to enforce the most stringent building codes in the nation, Read said.

“Y’all passed a building code that actually made sense,” said Read. “Just about anywhere else I go you have these issues of, can I stay in my house or not? That’s a tough question to answer when it’s not a well-built house.”

Andrew also led to equipment upgrades for hurricane forecasters.

Reconnaissance aircraft that fly into storms to collect data now carry equipment that measures microwave radiation at the sea surface 10,000 feet below. That gives forecasters more information about how strong a storm is at that moment, James Franklin, who leads the hurricane specialist unit at the hurricane center in Miami, said in an interview last week.

The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started three years ago, is exploring the use of Doppler radar in forecasting a storm’s intensity, Franklin said.

Protecting people who live in areas vulnerable to storm surge drives the urgency behind improving forecasters’ ability to see whether a hurricane will blow up, Franklin said.

“Those things, the intensity and the size, affect storm surge, which is the hazard that has the greatest potential to cause a large loss of life,” Franklin said.

As federal budgets continue to tighten, maintaining all the equipment that forecasters use also will be a serious challenge for the hurricane center’s next director, Read said.

That equipment includes aging polar-orbiting satellites that offer more detailed information on moisture, temperatures and other weather data than geostationary satellites that provide pictures of much of the earth from higher levels.

“Right now I see it as a very expensive infrastructure that it takes to be good at doing weather forecasting, and of course the hurricanes,” Read said. “Having the funding to maintain that and expand the capability is a challenge.”

Read steps down June 1, the start of the six-month Atlantic hurricane season. After four years as head of the hurricane center, Read says he’s looking forward to making weather forecasting a hobby instead of a full-time job.

The man who repeatedly urges coastal residents to have evacuation plans ahead of storms and to stock up on food and water in case of post-storm emergencies won’t be leaving behind his storm preparation habits, though. Read will return to his home in Galveston County on the Texas coast — an area vulnerable to hurricanes. In 1900, Galveston was struck by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people.

Although his fortified home is 30 feet above sea level and out of the risk of storm surge, Read says he stocks up on supplies to last seven days without power, just in case.

Deputy director Ed Rappaport will take charge as interim director if Read’s successor is not named before June 1.

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is expected to release its hurricane season outlook next week.

The 2011 hurricane season was the sixth consecutive year without the U.S. landfall of a major hurricane: Category 3 or higher, with winds of 111 mph or higher. However, it produced the third-highest number of tropical storms on record. Among those 19 named storms was Hurricane Irene, which paralyzed the Eastern seaboard and caught parts of the Northeast by surprise with deadly flooding. Irene was one of the costliest storms in U.S. history.

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It’s yet another side effect of the economy forcing some committed couples into “commuter marriages.”

“The first time we were apart, it was for about a month, and it was hard,” Fagen said. “It’s so lonely and I know he was lonely.”

Many people are being kept apart because of the shaky job market. Some are relocating to retain a job and the numbers are showing that it’s an upward trend. About 3 ½ million couples are living in commuter marriages, which is up 30 percent since 1990. Those numbers continue to rise.

“The real estate market is really depressed, so the other partner ends up staying behind until the house sells,” said Karla Bergen, a Ph.D. and assistant professor and communications program coordinator of Women’s Studies at the College of Saint Mary. “People get married to be together and when you’re in a commuter marriage, you don’t see each other as you would normally.”

It can also be an expensive proposition. A recent survey found that only a quarter of businesses offer assistance to commuting employees. But the author of “The Commuter Marriage” says cheap technology via Skype, cell phones and texting helps bridge the long distance.

“It’s really good for the person far away to feel more connected and it’s also good for the person at home to feel like the person who’s away understands what’s going on,” said Tina Tessina, PhD., psychotherapist, and author of The Commuter Marriage.

She said there can even be surprising benefits to a commuter arrangement.

“It can refresh a marriage that’s stale because people have been together all the time and there’s nothing new happening and suddenly you get that rush of ‘Wow I’ve missed you!’” Tessina said.

Nancy Fagen agrees saying absence has really made her heart grow fonder.

“It’s a honeymoon! We don’t focus on the negative because we don’t have time to,” she said.

The economy isn’t the only thing to blame for an increase in commuter marriages. Experts say an increase of people meeting online and a more global economy are also factoring into such arrangements.

CBS4 meteorologist Lissette Gonzalez said some areas picked up close to two and a half inches of rain. There have been reports of some minor flooding and cars hydroplaning on slick roads. Commuters should drive cautiously due to the dangerous conditions.

By mid-morning the showers should let up but expect storms in the afternoon due to plenty of moisture moving in from the Gulf of Mexico combined with a trough of low pressure off to our North and West. Some storms may be strong with lightning, gusty winds and some heavy downpours leading to 2 to possibly 5 inches of rain across portions of South Florida.

The National Weather Service reports there’s about a 60 percent chance of rain on Thursday and the storm chance remains high through Friday as a frontal boundary slowly sags South across the peninsula. Saturday we’ll see a mix of sun and storms with highs in the upper 80s. Sunday some drier air may move in to decrease the rain chance a bit.

The truck’s owner, Charles Bourquin, said someone stole the truck from a driveway on Hollywood Boulevard while he was doing work in the yard.  The eight-month-old piglets were inside.

Bourquin, from Clewiston, admitted to CBS4’s Maggie Newland that he made the error of leaving his truck in the carport with the key inside.

“Next thing I know, I come back around and my truck’s gone and my stomach dropped,” said Bourquin.

Bourquin says he never noticed anything strange on the street, but Jennie Scardina did. She lives down the block  and says she saw a stranger in her carport right next to her car.

When she questioned the man, she said he took off, but she went after him.

“When I see something suspicious, I follow him,” she said.

She didn’t find the stranger, but she did find Bourquin devastated over the loss of his truck.

“He was crying when I saw him [saying] ‘they took my two little pigs’,” Scardina said.

The person who took the truck likely never realized there were two piglets inside.

“One was a boy and one was a girl. They’re white with little black spots. They’re really cute,” said Bourquin, who sells the pigs out of his truck for $100 a piece.  “I love them you know I raise them and I get attached to them.”

Now he just hopes someone will find his truck..

It’s a white 1996 Mazda pickup with a sign on the back that says “Potbelly Pigs” in marker.

Anyone with information is urged to call Broward Crimestoppers (954) 493-TIPS.

William Dear lives on a large ranch near Hubbard, Texas. The quiet, rural retreat is probably the last place anyone would expect to find evidence that exonerates OJ Simpson, but Dear, a retired police officer and long-time private eye, has turned one of the out buildings on his ranch into his own crime lab. Inside, he claimed, is evidence that supports the case he makes in his new book, “OJ Simpson is Innocent and I Can Prove It.”

He’s spent 18-years reviewing the facts of the case. Just days after the murder, Dear flew to Los Angeles and walked the crime scene. That’s when he began to suspect that police were after the wrong man.

“I realized based on what I had been told that OJ didn’t do it. I believe that he had to have been at the crime scene, but I believe he was at the crime scene after the murders.”

William Dear says he ruled out a number of suspects before focusing on Jason Simpson, OJ’s son from his first marriage. His book paints a picture of a deeply disturbed young man.

“We have a young man who was 24 at the time, 5 foot 11. 235 pounds and when we checked his criminal record, he was on probation at the time of the murder for assaulting his former employer,” Dear said.

Under a deal, Jason Simpson agreed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of disturbing the peace and was ordered to stay away from his former boss.

Dear dug through Jason Simpson’s trash, where he said he found prescriptions used to treat seizures and possibly a rage disorder. He also claimed to have bought the contents of Jason Simpson’s storage locker which were put up for auction after no one paid the bill. Dear said it contained diaries from 1993, personal photos of the Simpson family, a sport coat that looks like the one Jason wore on the day of the verdict, and at the bottom of the box a knife. He’s spent about a million dollars pursuing the case, even going so far as to buy a 1993 jeep that he said Jason Simpson owned in 1994.

His book says on the night of the murders, Nicole Simpson had made plans to eat with friends at a restaurant where Jason worked, but changed her mind and went to another restaurant instead.

“I interviewed several people who were there that night and who told me Jason appeared to be very upset, and they attributed that to the fact that Nicole did not show up.” Dear said and makes the case that Jason Simpson may have gone to Nicole’s home to confront her although a girlfriend told police Simpson spent the night with her. Dear believes under that scenario Jason and Nicole could have gotten into a heated argument.

“She may have gotten in his face; he may have gotten in hers. She’s wanting him to go because she’s expecting Ron Goldman. Things escalated and as a result the knife came down on the top of her head.” Dear said.

His book makes the case that the knife Dear obtained could have been the murder weapon. He cites forensic experts which told him that the bottom of the knife matches a cut on the top of Nicole’s head.

The author also believes OJ Simpson went to the crime scene after the Nicole and Ron Goldman were both dead.

“I think he either got in touch with his dad by cell phone or called him or went directly to the house. His dad didn’t totally believe him. When OJ came back,” Dear goes on to speculate, “he bent down, took off one of the gloves, checked for her pulse and when he did the head went one way, the body went another, he drops the glove, looks up and sees Ron Goldman, panics and he’s out of there.”

The book contains a photo of Jason Simpson wearing a black knit hat that looks like one found by police at the crime scene.

“We know that a knit cap was found at the crime scene. We know it contained hair from an afro American and a dog. But they couldn’t say it came from OJ Simpson,” said Dear who wants a grand jury investigation and DNA testing on the hair. But he said no one involved with the case is willing to take a second look at that evidence or any or the many other arguments he makes in his 500 page book.

“I’ll let the evidence speak for itself,” said Dear responding to the suggestion that he could be wrong about Jason Simpson. “That’s why you don’t see me saying he did it. He’s a major overlooked suspect.”

Former O.J. Simpson pal Ron Shipp, a former LAPD police officer, believes his friend committed the murders and no one else. When he first heard about Dear’s book, he was stunned.

“When I read a lot of the things in the book, there are so many things in there that are so untrue,” said Shipp.

CBS4 News tried to contact Jason Simpson about Bill Dear’s book but we could not reach him.

The District Attorney’s office in Los Angeles said it has no comment, neither did O.J. Simpson’s attorney.

O.J. Simpson remains in prison in Nevada serving his sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping but a new attorney for Simpson is focused on appealing his conviction, alleging the former football star was so badly represented by lawyers in his trial and previous appeals that he deserves a new trial.

Anthony Costanzo, a 12-year veteran of BSO, turned himself on Wednesday to face four felony charges, according to the Broward State Attorney’s Office.

According to an arrest report Costanzo apparently thought he was helping a fellow officer who had legal troubles of his own — Billy Koepke, a Fort Lauderdale Police Officer who had recently been arrested for stealing money and prescription drugs from pain clinic customers.

Koepke and fellow officer Brian Dodge were arrested on a slew of charges in November.

Investigators with the Broward State Attorney’s Office say the case against Costanzo began in January in the 5600 block of North Dixie Highway.

Officers pulled over a car and Costanzo arrived for back up. A female passenger in the car was arrested and taken to BSO’s Oakland Park station.

Once inside, investigators say the woman told deputies that she was a witness in the criminal case against Fort Lauderdale Officer Billy Koepke.

According to prosecutors, Costanzo considered Koepke a “buddy”. Costanzo is accused of recording a conversation with the female witness about Koepke’s case.

The arrest warrant says Costanzo had the conversation “…with the intent of misleading her about the circumstances surrounding the criminal proceeding against Billy Koepke.”

Prosecutors say Costanzo sent a copy of the video to Koepke — believing it would help Koepke’s criminal case. Investigators say Costanzo even showed the recording to a BSO Sergeant.

The arrest affidavit says Costanzo was immediately suspended from duty.

Wednesday, Costanzo was arrested.

According to the arrest warrant, Costanzo removed or deleted the video in the days after he took it.

Costanzo is free on 5-thousand dollars bond. CBS 4 News wanted to speak with Costanzo about the charges but a recent address for him is in a gated community and we could not get inside.

The 510-foot former U.S. Navy Landing Ship Dock Spiegel Grove has welcomed trained divers off Key Largo since 2002, when the Key Largo community rallied to sink the retired ship as the backbone of a new reef ecosystem six miles offshore.

Its journey to the bottom at a depth of 130 feet is as intriguing as its current-day coral growths.

In June 2001, after more than a decade tethered in the U.S. Navy’s “Mothball Fleet” in Virginia’s James River, Spiegel Grove was towed to undergo an elaborate cleaning process and 11 months later was moved to Key Largo.

Six hours before its intended scuttling on May 17, 2002, the former landing dock prematurely sank and unexpectedly rolled over, leaving its upside down bow protruding above the surface of the water.

Three weeks later, on June 10, a salvage team managed to sink the vessel fully and it came to rest on its starboard side. The enormous ship immediately attracted large amounts of reef fish and marine growth, and officially opened to divers on June 26, luring scores of dive enthusiasts over the new artificial reef’s cliff-like hull sprawled across the sandy bottom.

July 9, 2005, brought what many call Hurricane Dennis’ gift to sport diving, even though the storm skirted the Keys. When Dennis was east of Cuba it generated powerful currents that migrated up the Florida Straits and turned the Grove upright. Nature had accomplished what man couldn’t.

To date, more than 200 different species of fish have settled on the Spiegel Grove, according to officials at the Reef Environmental Education Foundation.

On Monday, May 21^st, restrictions on the the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane will be lifted, allowing solo motorists to travel in it. The change is part of phase two in the 95 Express Lane project.

The lane affected runs from Miami Gardens Drive in Miami-Dade County to Sunrise Boulevard in Broward County.

The extra lane is short-lived, however. Once Phase 2 begins in June, traffic will be shifted away from the center median and the the former HOV lane will be made into two SunPass express lanes.

Transportation officials say traffic flow disruptions and lane closures may occur during construction.

For more information, log on to www.95express.com

First up on the stand was Dr. Satish Chundru.

A fledgling coroner in 2007, Chundru and an assistant performed Kaufman’s autopsy. Chundru testified that injuries he noted in his report, including the deep bruising on her neck, were consistent with her being asphyxiated or strangled to death.

“Did anything change your opinion that this was some type of an asphyxial death and it was a homicide,” asked prosecutor Joe Mansfield.

“As I said before, it’s a homicide until proven otherwise,” said Chundru.

“And you found nothing in your investigation to change your opinion,” asked Mansfield.

“No,” replied Chundru.

During cross-examination, Kaufman’s attorney Al Milian peppered Chundru with questions as to why he failed to detect scarring on Kaufman’s heart indicating heart disease which the defense claims caused her to have a heart attack in the bathroom and slammed her neck into a magazine rack as she slumped over.

On Monday, Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Chester Gwinn testified that Lina Kaufman had extensive, deep bruising to her neck and bruises on her legs and back. Gwinn was not able to determine a definitive cause or manner of death.

Since the cause of death was inconclusive, Milian questioned why the Medical Examiner’s Office report would conclude Kaufman’s death was a homicide.

“It’s a homicide until proven otherwise, is that what you said,” asked Milian.

“Yes, yes,” replied Chundru.

“That’s like saying you’re guilty until proven innocent,” said Milian.

Milian also hammered at the Chundru for failing to enter a formal finding in the Kaufman case until a year and a half after her death. The ruling was issued the day the family filed a complaint with state regulators.

The defense’s case revolves their argument that the police and the Medical Examiner’s Office made a number of missteps in their investigation including not checking Kaufman’s medical history which would have revealed she was prone to fainting spells.

The second witness called to the stand was Aventura police officer Ruben Brizuela who testified that Kaufman was overheard giving two different versions of how his wife was positioned when he discovered her in the bathroom.

Brizuela told the jury that in the first version, Kaufman said he found his wife in a kneeling position over the toilet as if she had been throwing up. In the second version Kaufman said his wife’s feet were at the toilet and her neck was draped over the magazine rack; the inference being that Kaufman needed to explain the bruising on his wife’s neck.

The officer said the marks on Lina Kaufman’s neck were consistent with imprints caused by fingers. That subjective conclusion brought howls of protest from the defense, but the damage had already been done since the jury heard the officer’s statement.

The case started in November 2007 when a hysterical Adam Kaufman called 911 and said that he had awakened after a night of sleep to find his wife in the bathroom, unconscious, her neck draped over a bar on a magazine rack.

Prosecutor Joe Mansfield maintains Lina Kaufman was a perfectly healthy woman at the time of her death and there are several inconsistencies in Kaufman’s story that he woke up and found his wife dead.

First, according to Mansfield, Kaufman was “standing in the bedroom fully dressed” when paramedics arrived at their home. Mansfield said that didn’t jive with Kaufman’s story in which he said woke after a night of sleep to find his wife unconscious and not breathing in the bathroom; slumped off the toilet, her neck draped on magazine rack.

Mansfield said according to police when they arrived at Kaufman residence, his car was hot to the touch which suggested that he had recently arrived home.

The defense said that the state has offered no motive, not even a vague theory, as to why Kaufman would want to kill his wife.

Kaufman, who is free on half million dollar, could be sentenced to life in prison if he is convicted.

Both federal prosecutors and the defense attorney for 45-year-old Elroy Phillips have signed off on an agreement to vacate Phillips’s conviction in 2003 for selling crack cocaine to the former officer during a joint local, state and federal drug sting in West Palm Beach.

While Phillips’s daughter, Shatroyia Phillips of Miami, had hoped to see her father walk out of the federal courthouse in Miami as a free man on Wednesday, that did not happen.

Federal Judge Joan Lenard told both sides that she was “not sold” on letting Phillips leave jail right now.

“I have to have a factual basis for release,” Lenard said during a hearing. “I am not sold on his release.”

Judge Lenard gave Prosecutors and defense attorney Michael Zelman until May 31^st to come up with she called a “joint stipulated” agreement with more details and evidence.

She said she could make a decision before that date if the agreement was submitted at an earlier date.

Zelman told Judge Lenard that the case against unfolded on April 6^th, 2001 when former West Palm Beach officer Michael Gent claimed that Phillips had sold “$50 worth of crack cocaine” to an undercover officer.

“We are prepared now to go forward with evidence to show that Gent committed perjury,” said Zelman. Zelman said Gent was convicted of bribery in 2007 for shaking down an illegal massage parlor “that was a house of prostitution.”

Zelman told the court that Gent lost his Florida law enforcement license and had to perform community service. The New Times Broward-Palm Beach reported that Gent now lives in Arizona.

Judge Lenard expressed concern about the relevance of testimony and evidence against Gent that happened after Phillips was convicted.

Phillips and his daughter Shatroyia smiled as they saw each other in court.

Outside the courthouse, she told CBS4’s Peter D’Oench, “I’m just disappointed that my Dad isn’t coming home. I mean he will be coming home eventually. It’s just a matter of when.”

“I believe that he is innocent,” she told D’Oench. “He shouldn’t have been incarcerated this long and kept in prison all this time. All along he told me he was innocent.”

D’Oench asked her what it would mean to see her father released.

“It would mean a lot to me,” she said. “We are very close.”

“Are you angry?” D’Oench asked her.

“Yes,” she said.

“He’s been gone a very long time,” she said. “Now it’s up to the Judge to make a decision on when he can finally get out.”

Shatroyia said her father has a lot of plans.

“While in prison,” she said, “he became a paralegal. He could follow that or there are a number of other things he could do.”

“And we have a lot of plans for him,” she said.

The New Times Broward-Palm Beach contributed to this report

The Massachusetts governor plans to attend at least five fundraisers in Miami, Coral Gables, Boca Raton, Tampa and Jacksonville, according to CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald. His campaign team hopes to raise anywhere between five and eight million dollars.

Romney began Wednesday with a rally in St Petersburg. Afterward he attended a $50,000 per person lunch at the home of developer Dick and Cornelia Corbett in Tampa.

From there he headed south. He attended a fundraiser at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Afterward he made an appearance at the Star Island home of pharmaceutical magnate Phil and Pat Frost where dinner costs $50,000.

On Thursday, Romney begins the day at a fundraiser in Jacksonville. He’ll wrap his trip in Boca Raton at the home of Marc J. Leder of Sun Capital Partners in Boca Raton. Dinner: $50,000.

Those wishing to attend the photo-op VIP receptions at the various venues will have to drop $10,000 per person.

CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald contributed

Located on 16^th and Alton Road, chef and restaurateur Bernie Matz cooks up traditional Cuban food in a very non-traditional way.

“This is a very simple, unpretentious local spot that serves a modern healthy approach to a classic Latin flavors,” said Matz.

That’s not to say you won’t find cheese steak, sweet potato fries or any of those Latino favorites we all love and crave, but Matz makes it a bit healthier.

It’s a more modern approach to the same Latin American cuisine with whole grains, real fresh veggies, fresh salad, quinoa, and a mix of 5 different varieties of rice, things you wouldn’t find in a typical Latin American restaurant

Most meals run between $8- $12 dollars, making Bernie’s LA Cafe a South Beach staple for those who enjoy healthy Latin cuisine.

For more info log onto http://www.bernieslacafe.com/

Jennifer Lopez took the top spot away from Lady Gaga who dropped to number 5, greatly because J-Lo has become a one-woman conglomerate.      She’s having the last laugh over critics who had said her career was dead and who ridiculed her choice to become an “American Idol” judge.

Oprah stayed at second, despite many setbacks, mostly because she made one hundred sixty five million bucks, a lot more than anybody else.

Internet searches and social media strength helped push Justin Bieber to third and Rihanna to fourth.

Britney Spears has gotten her act together.  She’s sixth, followed by, yes, Kim Kardashian, and Katy Perry.

The only movie moguls in the top ten are Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg.

Tiger Woods held on to the most powerful spot among athletes, twelfth overall, despite his many problems and mediocre play.

Lebron followed at 15th.

One newcomer? Two and a Half Men’s Ashton Kutcher at fifty first.

The man he replaced, Charlie Sheen, is gone and Lindsey Lohan is nowhere to be found.  Maybe there’s a lesson there that bad behavior doesn’t pay.

Each has their own memories of hell, but now, they work together to make sure that no one will forget how the Nazi’s attempted to carry out what they called, “The Final Solution,”  Hitler’s attempt to wipe out the Jews.

As the trio travels back to Auschwitz in Poland, each tells a terrifying story about being ripped from their homes and loaded onto crowded trains, with no idea where they were going or what would happen to them once they arrived.

Standing on the train platform at the Birkenau extermination camp, part of Auschwitz, Mermelstein remember the being greeted by the infamous Dr. Joseph Mengele, the man who performed cruel medical experiments on children and adults being held by the Nazis. “He looked at you, had on white gloves and a little stick and just motioned right or left.” Mermelstein is explaining what became known as “the selection process.”  In that split second, people where chosen for life or immediate death in the gas chamber.  No one realized at the time what was happening.  “The people went to right went this way, people who went to left, right behind the fence there, there’s a walk way, they walked about a half a mile to where the gas chambers,” recalls Mermelstein.

Mermelstein and his 2 brothers were sent to the right, his mom, dad and the rest of his family were sent to the left, .to their immediate death.

Survivor Joe Sachs remembers that selection process too, and watching people march off to the gas chamber.  “If anyone went in, they didn’t come out,” said Sachs,  “so there is no one to tell you what it was like, but it was known they had them undress, drop everything and they were pushed into the chambers, the doors were locked an that was the end of those people.”

While touring Auschwitz, there are many sad reminders left behind of the people who arrived here thinking they were just being relocated. There are rooms filled with luggage, the shoes of men, women and children and the hair cut from their heads before being murdered, then sold for profit.   “When I saw the hair, that just hit me so hard,” said visitor Gillian Millberg from Miami, “because you can take articles of clothing, you take shoes, you take sunglasses, you can take whatever you want, but when it’s a part of your body, like hair, and to make it for someone else’s use, made me so disgusted!”

For survivors, the trip back to Auschwitz  is a difficult one, but they will continue to do it as long as their bodies allow them to.  “I want to feel that I left a legacy,” said David Schaecter.  “I want to feel that I reached a lot of children.”

All of them want to make sure that the murder of 6 million Jews and millions of others will never be forgotten.  “If we can educate the younger generations to reduce the amount of hatred and prejudice,” said Sachs,  “maybe one day there will be a better world and that’s what drives me.”

Join CBS4 News for a special presentation: March of the Living, Return to Auschwitz Sunday, May 20th at 6:30 p.m.

The Miami-Dade School Board reviewed early results from the FCAT and any smiles the board had for legislators for funding schools this year disappeared.

Preliminary results that have started to come in have been abysmal. The worst scores so far came from 4th graders on the written part of the test. Last year, 81 percent of the state passed their writing essays; this year, just 27 percent.

“All their indicators were expecting a small uptick; no one could have anticipated a 54 percent drop,” said state Representative Dwight Bullard.

Bullard, a teacher, said there a multitude of reasons to blame. In just the last year, there were more than a dozen changes to the test. Among those changes were the passing score on a 1-6 scale was raised to four and spelling, grammar, and punctuation counted more this year.

Still, the school board said students aren’t learning less, it’s just the expectations of scores have increased.

“We want parents to understand the level of education hasn’t changed. It’s the measure of education has changed,” said school board member Raquel Regalado.

The changes could have serious effects for South Florida where many students are just learning English.

South Florida schools could see school’s lose two letter grades this year and many students could be held back. Miami-Dade Schools superintendent Alberto Carvahlo said it was inhumane.

“This is not fair; this is not right and something needs to change,” Carvahlo said.

The FCAT scores will also have a negative impact on the community overall and teachers. The community could see millions of dollars lost from the local education budget for poor performance on the FCAT. In addition, teacher salaries are now tied to the FCAT.

That means a teacher in a poorly performing district could be penalized for her students’ failing scores, regardless of the teacher’s ability. That and the FCAT overall have led critics to charge the school’s have no choice but to teach kids how to take the test, not to learn.

As the criticism growing from parents, teachers, and higher education; the state may have no choice but to eventually end the test completely.

“We did listen in the legislature,” said state Senator Carlos Lopez Cantera. “You can’t just turn out the light, but the FCAT is on its way out.”

Those arrested in “Operation Candlelight” include the ringleaders and fake renters, also known as “Straw Renters.”

Since 2007, the state attorney says the scam resulted in 12 house fires and worked like this: Organizers recruited people to rent out homes in South Dade. Those renters would allegedly fill the houses with furniture, which was often stolen or bought from a thrift store, then set a candle next to a plant or find another way to start a fire that appeared accidental. Then they’d allegedly file a renter’s insurance claim.

“They wouldn’t even get new furniture.  They would take the same furniture they’d just filed a claim on and received the money for, go rent another house and they would put the same furniture that’s already been destroyed in the next house.  They were so bold about it they didn’t even try to hide it at all,” State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle explained.

Officials say we could all pay the price for crimes like these.

“It’s a simple scam but it had a lot of devastating consequences to many,” said Rundle.

“Everybody who will write a check to their insurance company in the next month… their rates go up when this kind of behavior is not arrested and dealt with aggressively,” Florida Fire Marshal Jeff Atwater said.

Fernandez-Rundle, Atwater and members of the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Economic Crimes and Arson investigators all worked the case.

Charges include racketeering for the organizers and arson and theft charges for the renters.

As the 6th longest running show on Broadway, and translated into seven different languages, the popular musical has worldwide appeal.

Cast in the lead roles in the touring production now on stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center are Jelani Remy as Simba and Syndee Williams, a graduate of Palmetto High, as Nala.

“I remember being 10 years old when the show came out and I heard “Shadowland” and I thought, ‘one day I want to sing that song’. Dreams do come true,” said Williams

Just like on stage, backstage has its own show and is a world of its own where an almost endless amount of costumes line the racks, animals hang from the ceilings, everything perfectly choreographed.

“We have fifty in the cast, another fifty plus working backstage and support positions. We’re thrilled to be here in Miami,” said stage director Ron Davis.

Amyia Burell plays eleven roles, with 14 costume changes

“The puppetry, the costumes, the colors. Everything is beautiful.” said Burell.

The Lion King is on through June 10 At The Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami.

“I remember being 10 years old when the show came out and I heard “Shadowland” and I thought, ‘one day I want to sing that song’. Dreams do come true,” said Williams

Just like on stage, backstage has its own show and is a world of its own where an almost endless amount of costumes line the racks, animals hang from the ceilings, everything perfectly choreographed.

“We have fifty in the cast, another fifty plus working backstage and support positions. We’re thrilled to be here in Miami,” said stage director Ron Davis.

Amyia Burell plays eleven roles, with 14 costume changes

“The puppetry, the costumes, the colors. Everything is beautiful.” said Burell.

The Lion King is on through June 10 At The Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami.

CBS will finish the season as America’s most-watched network for the ninth time in the past 10 years, leading in viewers by the widest margin of any network in 23 years.

The new series include Elementary, a contemporary take on the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes in New York City, starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu; Vegas, a drama inspired by a real-life sheriff and his battle with a powerful mobster for control of Las Vegas in the 1960s, starring Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis; Made In Jersey, starring Janet Montgomery as a smart first-year lawyer with working-class roots practicing at a prestigious Manhattan law firm; and Partners, a comedy about two very different life-long best friends and business partners and their significant others, starring David Krumholtz and Michael Urie.

“These new series feature a great range of bold concepts, rich characters, big stars and fresh faces,” CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler said.  “From a new take on Sherlock Holmes to an epic battle for control of 1960s Las Vegas to a working-class point of view in a prestigious law firm, the dramas each have a unique style and sensibility.  And, our new comedy Partners fits perfectly with the CBS Monday night tradition of relationship comedies with a lot of heart and humor.”

The freshman series will be joined by 19 returning shows, including: NCIS, The Big Bang Theory, Person of Interest, Two Broke Girls, 60 Minutes and The Amazing Race, How I Met Your Mother, Mike & Molly, Hawaii Five-O, NCIS: Los Angeles, Survivor, Criminal Minds, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Two and a Half Men, CSI: NY, Blue Bloods, 48 Hours Mystery, The Mentalist and The Good Wife.

For midseason, the Emmy Award-nominated Undercover Boss returns, plus the new reality series The Job from executive producers Michael Davies and Mark Burnett. Also for midseason are the new drama Golden Boy and the new comedy Friend Me.

Watch the following shows on CBS4:

MONDAY

8:00-8:30 PM              HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
8:30-9:00 PM              PARTNERS (NEW)
9:00-9:30 PM              2 BROKE GIRLS (NEW TIME)
9:30-10:00 PM            MIKE & MOLLY
10:00-11:00 PM          HAWAII FIVE-0

TUESDAY

8:00-9:00 PM             NCIS
9:00-10:00 PM           NCIS: LOS ANGELES
10:00-11:00 PM          VEGAS (NEW)

WEDNESDAY

8:00-9:00 PM             SURVIVOR
9:00-10:00 PM            CRIMINAL MINDS
10:00-11:00 PM          CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

THURSDAY

8:00-8:30 PM              THE BIG BANG THEORY
8:30-9:00 PM              TWO AND A HALF MEN (NEW TIME)
9:00-10:00 PM            PERSON OF INTEREST (NEW)
10:00-11:00 PM          ELEMENTARY

FRIDAY

8:00-9:00 PM             CSI: NY (NEW TIME)
9:00-10:00 PM            MADE IN JERSEY (NEW)
10:00-11:00 PM          BLUE BLOODS

SATURDAY

8:00-9:00 PM             CRIMETIME SATURDAY
9:00-10:00 PM           CRIMETIME SATURDAY
10:00-11:00 PM          48 HOURS MYSTERY

SUNDAY

7:00-8:00 PM              60 MINUTES
8:00-9:00 PM              THE AMAZING RACE
9:00-10:00 PM            THE GOOD WIFE
10:00-11:00 PM          THE MENTALIST (NEW TIME)

Health officials still haven’t been able to determine what sparked the problems that started Wednesday morning.

Word of the outbreak spread quickly.

“It was like on Twitter and stuff,” said Abel Reyes, a junior, “That there was a rash going around and stuff and they had to evacuate some students.”

Hollywood Fire Rescue immediately quarantined the classroom from other students and evacuated the rest of the building.

Some concerned parents who heard about the situation, went to the school to pick up their kids.

“I called the school and they told me the kids that were affected, they called the parents already and the rest of the kids are just on lockdown for now,” said Rhonda Lazcano.  “My concern is that it could be in another classroom.  So when it’s over (the lockdown) I’m probably going to take mine out.”

Vivian Negron said she called her friend who was one of the affected students.

“He told me it started as a rash on his arm and then spread to his leg; it was red and blistering,” Negron said.

The students and teachers were eventually released from the hospital after going through showers and were allowed to take their clothing home in plastic bags.

The rashes had cleared and most of those impacted said they were too embarrassed to talk about what happened.

One woman told CBS4′s Joan Murray that her niece had been tested for hundreds of different substances, but nothing was identified that could have caused the outbreak.

Broward County Schools said the school will be thoroughly cleaned and school will resume Thursday as scheduled.

Vogue singled Wade out as one of the most well-dressed athletes in the U.S. For Wade, he’s long been the fashion guru of the Heat and now more people are starting to take notice.

“My fashion is whatever comes, I try to do,” Wade told CBS4. “I try to stay with the trends; and I start trends. It’s just trying to be comfortable in what you are and who you are.”

Wade’s running buddy in Miami, LeBron James, approved of Wade’s inclusion into the Vogue magazine spread, as did Udonis Haslem.

“D-Wade is known as the fashion guy. I think it’s great,” LeBron said.

“He’s definitely taken on the fashion thing,” Haslem said. “At the same time, as long as it doesn’t affect what he does when he comes out here and handles his business on the court, he can dress however he wants to dress.”

Wade was asked about the latest trend in fashion, the so-called “nerd look.”

“I’m not going to say whose idea it was. It’s just. Somebody did it,” Wade said with a grin. “I ain’t going to say who did it. Somebody did it.”

Wade continued saying it was something he did as far back as high school. When pressed on whether it was cool to wear glasses, Wade had a quick answer.

“When I did it in high school it was cool,” Wade said laughing. “Because when I did it they didn’t have the rims.”

Wade said his glasses aren’t prescription, but that he puts them on mainly when he’s reading books and other things. Wade said that things like glasses or the nerd look shouldn’t be frowned upon by kids.

“It is cool [to look smart],” Wade said. “When you go out and try to talk to kids you try to let them know it’s cool to be smart. It’s cool to be educated.”

Wade still may have some work to do with his teammates.

“Once we got UD out of the baggy, baggy pants, I know we can get anyone out of them,” Wade said.

Udonis didn’t quite see eye-to-eye with Wade’s assessment of his fashion sense.

“He didn’t get me out of that [baggy clothes],” Udonis said laughing. “It was just a time for change. I’m getting a little older now. You gotta dress a certain way as you get older.”

Udonis continued to poke fun at Wade’s style in fun.

“My pants still ain’t as tight as his,” Udonis said. “I don’t buy my pants with the wedgie already in them, tailor-made wedgies.”

Wade said he does have stylist and that he needs one because “as much as I love fashion, I can’t focus on it all the time. I got another job.”

But Wade was more than willing to give CBS4’s Jim Berry a fashion assessment.

“You’re looking like it’s an off day,” Wade said jokingly. “You know it’s an off-day, nothing really going on in the news. This [what Berry had on] is nice, maybe a little more fitted.”

As for LeBron, he didn’t mince words when he discussed his look.

“I don’t have a look,” LeBron said. “I’m all over the place. What’s up with all these fashion questions? I’m outta here [as he walked away with a smile on his face].”