Scott Simon was arrested Tuesday night for the murder of 33-year-old Nicholas Walker, who was shot while driving his car onto I-95.

In the accidental phone call to 911, Simon is recorded telling someone else that he’s going to follow the victim home and kill him.

Simon has been charged with first-degree murder for his involvement in the killing of Walker on May 5^th, although Broward Sheriff’s Office homicide detectives don’t believe he was the one who fired the gun.

According to reports, Simon coordinated the shooting after an argument with Walker at a nearby Waffle House.

Deputies arrived at the scene at 6:40 AM and found Walker’s Buick crashed into a guard rail. After a fire was put-out, police found Walker dead of gunshot wounds.

Detectives are asking for help in identifying two other suspects. Surveillance video shows a man they believe to be involved in the murder. The suspects were driving a black 2012 Buick GS on the night of the incident.

Anyone with any information are encouraged to call Det. Bryan Tutler at (954) 321-4281 or reports can remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers of Broward County at (954) 493-TIPS (8477) or online at www.browardcrimestoppers.org.

Any information that leads to an arrest will be rewarded up to $1,000 by Crime Stoppers.

The initial stop occurred near Northwest 54 St. and Northwest 3 Ave., according to a spokesman for the Miami Police Dept.

Police said the occupants of a black SUV bailed out of the vehicle and ran away.

An officer pursued one of the people behind a home, and shots were fire by the cop.

No one was struck by the bullets.

Police established a large perimeter, using a helicopter and K9s as part of their search.

At least one person was taken into custody, according to a police spokesman.

No names have been released.

Police have not released details on possible charges.

James finished with 30 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for the Heat – his ninth postseason triple-double, and barely anyone noticed. All that mattered was the last shot, which simply saved the Heat.

Paul George made three free throws with 2.2 seconds left in the overtime, which he forced with a miracle 3-pointer, to give the Pacers the lead. But James just drove down the left side of the lane, scored with ease and the Heat escaped.

Game 2 is Friday night in Miami.

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However, this is not a Saturday night at a Miami Beach club, it’s a Thursday at Body and Soul studio in Coral Gables.

Janet Jones is the general of what she calls her ‘Vixen Army.’ The workout emulates the fast paced, vibrating moves of video vixens – women you would see in music videos.

“Everyone always wanted to secretly be in a music video. You want to pretend that you’re Beyoncé because every girl loves Beyoncé,” said Jones.

Janet’s army lines up at attention every night waiting to get in and get in shape.

“My first class, the only ones that made it was my cousin and my best friend,” said Jones.

Now, over a hundred women flood the dance floor for the hour long cardio session.

“I use a watch to track the calories I burn and I burn anywhere between 900 to 1,000 calories,” said one vixen army member, Katherine Mojica.

“You’re going to hang out with your friends, you’re gonna feel good about yourself and at the end of the day you’re working out,” siad vixen army member, Erica Gill.

The trick to the vixen workout, you have to wear heels and the higher, the better!

“It’s a room full of women and we kinda just cheer each other on and encourage each other to act a little dirty and not get judged,” said Jones.

And the ladies are not holding back; by the end the dance floor is a steam room filled with vixens.

“This class really gives them the opportunity to pretend that they are that vixen, that starlet,” said Jones.

If you want to be part of the Vixen Army go to www.vixenworkout.com

“Florida is on the peak of an outbreak of a new heroin epidemic,” said Jim Hall, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Substance Abuse at Nova South Eastern University.

Those switching from opiates to heroin tend to be in the white middle to upper class nationwide. Florida’s statistics represent that same population group, according to Hall.

Hall completed a first of its kind study of heroin use in Florida. Once considered an urban street drug, since the pill mill crackdown beginning in 2011, it’s now cutting across very different demographics.

“Andrew,” 21, said that he never thought that he would do heroin.

“I first turned to heroin because of the pill addiction that I had, it was tough to maintain the pill addiction,” said Andrew.

Andrew, a recovering addict now living at the Acceptance House in Miami, was living just outside Boston when his friends drove back and forth to Florida to score opiate pills from doctors. He became addicted within months.

Maurren Barrett’s youngest son Drew was on the same receiving line.

“He was able to receive one thousand, four hundred and fifty five pills, all in their highest dosages, in less than 57 days from one doctor in Miami,” said Barrett. “His license was revoked.”

As pressure mounted to shut down the pill mills, addictions swelled and prices for the pills on the street skyrocketed.

“Once it became too expensive, I moved to heroin. It’s cheaper and more potent,” said Andrew.

Another young resident of Acceptance House, “Tod,” shared his story with CBS4′s Michele Gillen. He told her the remembered vividly what it was like the first time he tried heroin.

“I was scared. I was really scared, ‘You are really doing this now,’ I thought to myself,” said Tod.

He was 17 when he got addicted to opiate pills and when he could no longer afford them, he began to snort heroin.

“My guilt was gone. I loved it. From the first time I did it, I loved it,” said Tod who now describes the drug as “pure evil.”

“The nail in the coffin literally is a significant increase in heroin related deaths statewide with a third of those occurring in Miami-Dade County,” said Hall.

Is heroin more available given the government crack down on pill mills?

“Absolutely.” said Andrew. “Heroin is more easy to come across in Miami. I go up the street in 15 minutes.”

Andrew and Tod said that they were grateful to be among the lucky ones.  There were in treatment and hoped to dissuade others from getting hooked.

“If you end up doing prescription pills and get addicted, you are going to end up doing heroin,” said Tod.

Caseiro runs his company, C & C Auto of Miami, out of his family’s home off Southwest 8th street and 129th avenue.

The longtime mechanic explained to CBS4’s Chief Consumer Investigator Al Sunshine, “The person who’s getting this car which I already sold right now, is getting an awesome deal.”

Sunshine asked Caseiro if his customers are aware that they were purchasing a flood car.

“Of Course,” Caseiro added, “we do all electrical work, everything the car possibly needs, do you see a light on the dash? We take care of everything.”

All though Caseiro insists he is doing nothing wrong, local auto theft investigators have charged him with 33 counts of illegally possessing Florida motor vehicle identification numbers, altering them, and violating the state’s automotive title regulations.

From the air, it looks like his business is doing pretty well. His family’s West Miami-Dade Home is surrounded by cars and looks more like a busy used car lot than a local home.

It is believed there could be as many as 250,000 Sandy flood cars on the market nationally and talking about rebuilding and reselling them around South Florida is not a popular subject.

Mechanics at Hialeah’s “Mufflers for Less” confirm they’ve been busy rebuilding Sandy cars. They believe they can be good deals for consumers, as long as they know upfront it’s a rebuilt flood car.

The manager at “Mufflers for Less,” who calls himself JT, explained, “When any flood car comes, you have to tell them. First of all you can’t finance the car, second of all, they’re getting a deal because of it’s worth $10,000 they’re getting it for $5000.” Lastly, JT explained, “You have to tell them, you have to tell them, because it’s on the title.”

Local auto theft experts told Sunshine that they believe, in many cases, the identities of Hurricane Sandy cars are not being disclosed to local consumers.

That’s because a vehicle with a clean title, not labeled a flood car or re-built wreck, can sell for twice as much as the reworked flood car.

Some insiders told Sunshine that in the used car business, it’s a common practice.

Hialeah used car salesman Richard Jones of “Mufflers for Less” said, “Apparently to get over and try to scam the customer.”

CBS4’s Sunshine asked him if it’s being done. Jones answered, “South Florida people are scamming people left and right. It’s buyer beware down here.”

As it turns out, selling a Hurricane Sandy flood car is not against the law in the state of Florida as long as the car’s history is disclosed to the new buyer, and it’s branded as a flood car on the title.

The cab driver, Jose Gutierrez, said he was attacked while driving the women in the quiet Shady Banks neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale Wednesday afternoon. He said the women drove off in his cab, ditched it a short distance away and ran off.

“I said, ‘Please don’t kill me, I have a family. I have a son and daughter, you know. A family. Don’t kill me, please,’” Gutierrez said he told the women.

The 59-year-old said he picked up the two women in his cab in Lauderdale by the Sea Wednesday afternoon. He said they told him to drive to the out of the way Fort Lauderdale neighborhood where one choked him from behind with some sort of rope, while the other one punched him in the face.

“I said, ‘Why did you do that to me?’” Gutierrez told CBS 4′s Carey Codd. “I was going to give them the money, I said take the money. Don’t hurt me. Let me keep driving.”

Gutierrez claims the women got $200 dollars from him but he managed to keep his cell phone and call for help. Surveillance video from a neighbor’s house shows Fort Lauderdale police arriving on scene shortly after 5 PM.

Police put the Shady Banks neighborhood near I-95 and Davie Boulevard on lockdown for nearly an hour. Those living in the neighborhood said they’ve never heard of an attack like this before.

“It’s getting to be a strange world,” said Gilbert Krough.

Fort Lauderdale Police dusted the cab for fingerprints and searched inside for clues. Gutierrez is angry and hopes the women are caught.

“I wake up this morning at 5 o’clock to earn a living and look at what happened,” Gutierrez said.

Investigators say they have several leads they’re working to try and catch the women who attacked Gutierrez.

The shooting happened just after midnight in an apartment complex just north of the Universal Studios theme park when FBI agents went to the apartment of the man, Ibrahim Todashev, to question him, according to former FBI assistant director and CBS News correspondent John Miller.

“I heard somebody scream and say get away from me or something like that,” said Cristina Carvahlo.

Carvalho said she heard gunfire which sounded like it came from the direction of Todashev’s apartment.

“I just heard like a pop and then about a minute later another pop. I thought maybe fireworks or something of it. I didn’t think much of it,” said neighbor Gary Campagne.

Sources told CBS4 that Todashev was killed after lunged at an FBI agent with a knife. This reportedly happened while he was being questioned by the FBI and the Massachusetts state police. Originally, the FBI said an agent fired the deadly shot when Todashev started a violent confrontation. Later they backed off that statement and would not confirm who fired the deadly shot.

According to Todashev’s roommate, Khusen Tamarov, the FBI wanted to know about how he knew about Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarneav.

“Back when he used to live in Boston, they used to hang out, not hang out, he knew him, like he met a few times, because he was an MMA fighter, the other guy (Tsarnaev) was a boxer, they just knew each other,” said Tamarov.

Tamarov said Todashev and Tsarnaev talked several times on the phone.

“He (Todashev) had been interviewed along with a number of other people in the apartment complex, but the interest in him was higher because of a couple of factors: He was in contact with Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He had been to Boston to visit him, and he was planning a trip to Chechnya,” Miller said.

Tamarov said the FBI had been following both of them after Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar were indentified as the bombing suspects.

“The FBI started following him, started asking him questions ‘Why you guys, what kind of connection do you have with them’. They try to like make a connection between them, but there’s no connection, no connection, I know for sure,” said Tamarov.

Todashev’s neighbor said he noticed that someone was scoping out the parking lot recently, he just didn’t know why and was shocked to hear his neighbor was the target.

“We would see things like unmarked vehicles, we’d see people we had never seen before just sitting in parking spaces, kind of an uncomfortable surveillance look to them,” said Jason Hays.

In addition to questions about Tsarnaev, investigators reportedly wanted to know what Todashev knew about a triple murder in Waltham, near Boston, in 2011. Federal investigators say Tamerlan Tsarnaev knew one of the men who died – all had their throats slit.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police in the days after the marathon bombings.

His younger brother, Dzhokhar, remains in federal custody awaiting trial for the bombing, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

CBS News contributed to this report.

Roger Alvarez and his cousin were on the roof of a restaurant early Wednesday morning when Davie police, who believed that the two men were burglarizing the business, released a canine.

The dog bit Alvarez, sending him to Memorial Hospital Pembroke with a gaping wound to his left arm.

“It is very painful, like needles tearing at you,” Alvarez told CBS 4’s Joan Murray.

Alvarez is receiving antibiotics and pain medication to ease the sting of the bite and scratches on his arm.

According to Alavarez, he and his cousin were trying to remove a hood and ventilation system from the roof of the Vive Chile Restaurant on Stirling Road at approximately 2:40 am.

Two Davie police officers responded to what they thought was a burglary in progress.

As told by Alvarez, the officers appeared on the roof and started questioning him and his cousin.

“The police kept saying get on the floor and I was on my belly.  That’s when they let the canine loose and it bit me.”

Davie police, on the other hand, tell a different story.

They report that while his cousin obeyed, Alvarez did not follow their commands.

“He attempted to conceal himself behind an air conditioning unit,” said Captain Dale Engle of the Davie Police Department.

Engle said there had been a rash of burglars stealing air conditioning units for the precious metals and copper which is sold for money. Engle said that police believed that a crime was being committed.

Alvarez said that he holds no grudge but he would like an apology. He’s also concerned about his mounting medical bills because he currently has no health insurance.

“I mean I understand police have to do their job, but I was working. I wasn’t trying to do anything wrong.”

The restaurant owner confirms that Alvarez and his cousin were ‘working’ for him.

The incident remains under investigation.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office said they were called to the home of Bailey Mae Leal at 7:10 on Tuesday morning where she had committed suicide.

“It hurts that people are that bad and that they feel that way and that she did what she did,” said Kaitlin Budowski, a junior at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.

“It’s sad and it hurts everyone here,” she told CBS4’s Peter D’Oench. “Words can not describe how we feel. She impacted a lot of peoples’ lives and we are all are affected by it.”

Danielle Destifanes, who is also a junior at the high school, said, “I didn’t know her personally but she had a lot going for her. No one can describe why she was feeling the way she did.”

“It’s just sad,” said sophomore Isabel Gottlieb.

While grief counselors consoled students, some were seen leaving the school early with their parents, because they were too upset to stay in school.

Leal was featured in the “Miami Herald” after being named an all-county soccer player in Broward County in 2011, 2012 and 2013. She played on the Varsity Soccer team at her high school.

She had posted a video on her Twitter page demonstrating how to handle a soccer ball.

Some of her friends told D’Oench that they had no idea why she took her life. She recently sent out a tweet, “I see why everyone hates me. I hate myself, too.”

Several students said they had heard that Leal had been criticized and even accused of cheating by some students after getting very high scores on her college entrance exams. They said Leal was upset about that.

“What I heard was that she got really high ACT scores and some people think she cheated,” said Budowski.

“I heard she got a 34 out of a possible 36 on her ACTs and that is really high,” said Destifanes. “She needed high scores because she hoped to get a college scholarship.”

“I don’t know if she was bullied but people questioned how she nearly got a perfect score,” said Destifanes.

Some of Leal’s close friends and a spokeswoman for the Broward School Board said there was no evidence that Leal had been bullied at the school.

They made those comments after one person sent out a tweet saying that Leal had been “bullied for so long.”

Nadine Drew, a spokeswoman for the Broward School Board, said a Counseling Center had been established at the school and said the school was asking for privacy.

Drew also said the Principal was declining our request for an on camera interview.

Since 2008, the Broward School Board has had a policy that prohibits bullying of or by any student or employee.

The School Board defines bullying as, “systematically and chronically inflicting physical hurt or psychological distress on one or more studentsor employes.”

According to the School Board, “teachers and staff are required to use a variety of prevention and intervention activities and tools and resources that create environments of safety and respect and expectations of appropriate behavior.”

Budowski cautions people from being too critical of others.

“Everything you say can affect someone,” she said.

One of Leal’s relatives told D’Oench that her family was too upset to say anything right now.

One classmate said on Twitter, “Enjoy your first full day in heaven.”

A pastor for the family sent CBS4 an obituary notice that will run in the “Sun Sentinel.”

It said she was the “beloved daughter of Pamela and Cesar Leal and loving sister of Marisa and Paige, both 20 and Madison, 12. She is survived by her grandmother and two aunts as well as an uncle and aunt and extended family in Venezuela.

The obituary notice also says, “Bailey was a bright light in all of our lives—a superb athlete who loved soccer. She was talented and kind, a teenager who adored animals and designed her own clothing.”

The notice, “We remember her strong spirit and quick sense of humor and her eagerness to help others. This promising young athlete will be greatly missed by her family and friends.”

A service to “celebrate Bailey’s life” will be held Friday, May 24^th at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 8650 West Sample Road in Coral Springs.

“We have a little buffalo mozzarella and we have beautiful salami,” Chef Angelo Elia told CBS4′s Lisa Petrillo.

Acclaimed chef Elia makes his signature pizza with the passion of a man who truly loves his job.  This Italian born and raised restaurateur has six restaurants in South Florida.

“I work seven days a week, I still love doing what I do. I’m up at six in the morning.  I put a lot of effort in both,” said Elia.

At his Casa D’Angelo restaurants guests find sophisticated fine Italian dining for a special night out. In Weston, at his newest venture D’Angelo Pizza Tapas and Wine bar, Elia uses authentic Tuscan style ingredients for his casual-hip eatery for those on a budget.

“We have guests that come four to five days a week, so you can have a beautiful dinner for $15 to $20 a person,” said Elia. “The way the economy is going on today, I think that’s the way to go.”

Chef Elia sticks the pizza into a oven at 700 degrees and in three minutes its done.

Despite its sizzling ‘ooey, gooey’ good looks, Elia said his pizza is still a light meal.

“It’s light. In Italy at night time it’s what we do every night, we have a pizza and enjoy,” said Elia.

It’s the authentic Tuscan Italian ingredients in the pizza and all the dishes at D’Angelos that mattes most to this strict chef.

“I’m the kind of person, I didn’t use regular water to make pizza, I use bottledwater to make the pizza light. I use double zero flour only to make the pizza.” said Elia.

Petrillo got a chance to sample the food.

“A true Italian pizza” she said. . “Very light, flaky. It’s messy but good really good.”

Elia also brought out a few more dishes like a Burata cheese plate with grilled figs.

“This is jealousy time and I get it, “said Petrillo. “That’s a dessert. Wow”

What’s an Italian restaurant without a veal and pecorino cheese meatball?

“Woah, it melts in your mouth- the meatball melts in your mouth,” said Petrillo.

Elia also produces a chardonnay from Sardinia called Jankara that is sold at the restaurant.

For more information about Chef Elia’s ‘molto gustoso’ pizza visit dangelopizza.com

The Heat asked Students and teachers to show their Miami Heat spirit by dressing in all white at both Miami-”Wade” County and “LeBroward” County Public Schools on Friday.

It’s called White Hot HEAT Day and everyone in schools, even the principal, is being encouraged by the team to wear white to support the Heat as they take on the Indiana Pacers during the 2013 NBA Eastern Conference Finals.

The Heat said the promotion isn’t just for school children as they want fans all over South Florida to wear white Friday to support the franchise’s quest for back-to-back championships.

Fans that wear their White Hot gear throughout the day and night and post their pictures on Instagram using the hashtag #WhiteHotHEATFan will be featured on Miami Heat’s website.

Fans can also upload pictures of themselves to CBSMiami.com’s White Hot Heat gallery to show their support for the franchise as well by clicking here.

Willie Barney was convicted in April for the attempted murder and armed robbery of off-duty Miami-Dade Detective Wislyn Joseph last September.

Unlike the first trial, however, Det. Joseph will testify last instead of first.

The first to testify Wednesday was Joseph’s uncle Renal who described how the family was doing volunteer work at their Liberty City church on September 22, 2012 when he heard loud voices and a ruckus outside.

“I heard some gunshots,” the uncle testified.  “I thought maybe they killed him.”

The detective’s father, Jules, said he was in the church and heard someone shouting.

“I heard ‘give it to me, give it to me, give it to me!’” the father testified.  The father said he looked and saw a man confronting his son.

“He pulled out the gun and he shot him. Boom!” Jules Joseph said. “I ran to my son and I held him.”

The father could not identify Barney.

Detective Joseph has previously named Barney as the man who shot him.

The defense scored points Wednesday when Jules Joseph testified his son was wearing his eyeglasses at the time of the shooting.  In previous sworn testimony the father said his son did not have his glasses on.

The jury will later hear the detective testify that Barney, now 20, grabbed the gold jewelry from his neck, wrist and ring finger, then shot him at near point blank range.  Joseph testified in the first trial that blood gushed from his chest and he directed his father to apply pressure. The detective made his own call to 911.

Prosecutor Dawn Kulick told jurors that Joseph provided a description of his assailants and their car.  Barney was stopped in a car matching the description, and the gun used to shoot the officer was recovered from the red Pontiac.  The prosecutor said Barney’s DNA was found on the victim.

Defense attorney Robert Barrar told jurors the DNA evidence is not conclusive and could match “thousands” of other people.  Barrar said Barney’s finger prints were not on the gun and no gun powder residue was found on Barney’s hands.

The greatest obstacle for the state may be Joseph’s ID of Barney.  On the day of the robbery he described the shooter as being a “light skinned” black male. Barney has a dark complexion.

The defense attorney pointed to his client and told jurors, “As you can see, Mr. Barney is not light skinned.”

In the original trial jurors convicted Barney of robbery and attempted murder but found that he did not use a firearm.  That saved him from a possible life sentence.

Barney is rolling the dice on a retrial, granted after Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat acknowledged an error during jury selection in the first trial.

Barney was released from prison on a previous armed robbery conviction just weeks before he allegedly shot detective Joseph.

Barney and two alleged accomplices, Dedrick Brown and Travares Santiago, are charged in a robbery and murder spree in August and September of last year.

The three are being prosecuted separately in all of the cases.

A previous ruling that would have allowed the jury to hear about a separate robbery that Barney was charged with was reversed by the judge who determined the two crimes were not similar enough to be tried in both cases at the same time.

With Game 3 tied 1-1 in the third period, Boston turned to it’s fourth line — dubbed the “merlot line” — for an injection of energy. The line’s havoc had already led to Boston’s first goal — a rocket off the stick of defenseman Johnny Boychuk — and their strong forecheck and desire to cause a downtown-like traffic jam in front of the net put Boston on top for good with just 3:31 left to play.

Gregory Campbell stepped up and delivered a slapper on Henrik Lundqvist, which deflected off the netminders mask and straight up in the air. When the puck returned to the ice it danced along the line, but changed directions before crossing into the goal. It looked as though it had taken a Rangers’ bounce, as Lundqvist had no idea where the puck was.

It nearly trickled out of harm’s way.

That was until Daniel Paille rushed in and took a swing at it, sending it to the back of the net and putting Boston on top 2-1.

“I felt the pressure when we were on them and had a perfect view of it from the corner. I thought it was going to bounce in but it went the other way somehow,” Paille explained after the game. “Lundqvist didn’t know where it was and I was able to come around the net and out-battle the player with it; I think we hit at the same time and it hit off my stick and went in.”

After less-than-stellar showings in Games 1 and 2, Lundqvist was on his game Tuesday night. He was stuffing breakaway bids and turned away nearly all rebounds, so those funky goals were Boston’s best chance to put one — or two — past him.

“It was one of those nights where he was on his game and you could see the confidence he had throughout the game,” said Paille. “The goals that went in, there really wasn’t much he could do; there was a screen on one and a redirect on another. We tried to do as much as we could but it wasn’t going to be one of those where you beat him clean.”

Now Boston finds themselves one win away from returning to the Eastern Conference Finals for the second time in the last three seasons. But after nearly letting a 3-1 lead slip away last series to the Toronto Maple Leafs, and that 2010 collapse against the Philadelphia Flyers still in the back of their minds, the Bruins know their work is far from over.

“We’re confident going in for the series, but it’s not over. I’ve been in this situation before and seen it go the other way,” said Paille. “For us, we have to have the instinct to play as hard as we did tonight. They’re going to be a team that does not want to lose that way.”

Game 4 is Thursday night in New York.

Tune in to every Bruins playoff game on 98.5 The Sports Hub — the flagship station of the Boston Bruins! Pregame coverage begins 30 minutes prior to each game.

Robert Dessommes, manager of the News Café on Ocean Drive at 8th Street, said he and other managers aren’t expecting much business year compared to previous years.

“Eveywhere, all kinds of [police] vehicles, vans, cars and helicopters.” said Dessommes. “It’s good because we need to protect our city and us who live here, but it’s bad because it really scares people away,”

Eighteen surveillance cameras placed throughout the city, in partnership with the Miami-Dade Police Department, will help alert officers if trouble occurs.  At the Beacon Hotel manager Christain Mena said they have their security under control.

“We have a state trooper inside who will be here working 24 hours, here from Thursday to Saturday,” said Mena.

Mena said their bookings are off this year compared to last year.

“Other years were very busy and we were always sold out, but not this year,” said Mena.

Other hotel managers said they were experiencing the same situation.

“You know like before we were sold out, but this year is a little bit slow,” said Edith Eubanks, Avalon Hotel manager.

So what could be the cause of the sluggish sales?

“This weekend, Memorial Day weekend, in the past few years has become a thing where people are afraid to come, so we fully lose revenue,” said Dessommes.

The Miami Beach Police Department has plans in place to maintain security as thousands are expected to pack and party along SoBe this weekend.

Roughly 400 officers per shift from multiple agencies will man the streets of Miami Beach. Cameras, both mobile and stationary, have been installed throughout the city. Ready to be deployed throughout the city of Miami Beach are a total of 62 light towers, twelve visual messaging boards and three watch towers.

In addition to extra bikes and ATVs, the police department has a new vehicle on loan referred to as an LTV.

CBS 4 News had the exclusive first look at this 140-thousand dollar light tactical all-terrain vehicle, similar to the ones used in the military.

“This is the only one of its kind,” an officer explained.  “There’s no other vehicle like this on the market at this time.”

A camera onboard the LTV uses infrared technology to detect heat signatures on the beach, so even in the dead of night, officers can see people on a small screen mounted inside the vehicle.

“We could easily pick up a heat signature on this camera close to 3/4 of a mile away,” the officer explained.

In a tech truck about a mile from the heart of the action, another network of surveillance cameras can be viewed on one giant screen.

“When a crowd develops, people watching those cameras can let the officers know, ‘Hey, please respond to that area. Make sure everybody is safe. Make sure nothing is developing or becoming a problem’.”

Prevention takes a lot of planning, which started not long after last year’s festivities ended.

The goal of the extra security is to avoid chaos, like the incident that occurred two years ago when officers shot and killed a man they claim was driving erratically on Collins Avenue.

The family of the driver, Raymond Herisse, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the police department.

In 2012, cops called the holiday weekend’s event a big success and are hoping to build-on last year’s improvements in 2013.

Police will use license plate readers on the causeways to quickly scan for stolen vehicles or owners with outstanding felony warrants. In addition, a massive DUI checkpoint is planned for the MacArthur Causeway heading into the beach on Friday night.

Also, Ocean Drive will be closed to vehicle traffic and a traffic loop will be in effect between Collins Ave. and Washington Ave.

The column, by AP’s Jim Litke, takes aim at NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and the issue of stadiums, the Super Bowl, and the NFL’s scheduling.

“The NFL is free to twist arms, just like anybody else. So maybe it’s just coincidence that all five of the new stadiums that will come on line during Roger Goodell’s brief tenure as NFL commissioner have now been awarded Super Bowls. Or maybe not,” Litke said to start his column.

Litke’s column immediately brought South Florida’s failed Super Bowl bid into the discussion saying, “More telling than the argument Goodell and the owners made for either venue might be the one they aimed at the Miami Dolphins’ failed bid. ‘I think the stadium is a very important part of any of these proposals,’ he said after the vote. ‘I had a couple of owners express to me privately the condition of the stadium was an important factor to them in their votes.’”

Litke said South Florida had paid out recently for the homes of the Heat and Marlins, but asked, “who’s counting? Certainly not Goodell. He’s made securing new stadiums for franchise owners — largely publicly-financed stadiums — every bit as much a signature issue as player safety. So far, as noted above, every town that helped build one since 2006 has been rewarded with a Super Bowl.”

Perhaps Litke’s toughest shot at the NFL came in a paragraph shortly after the previous quote that said, “The NFL already rules the sporting landscape and the airwaves from coast to coast. Apparently, that’s not enough. Based on a few things Goodell let slip at the end of the owners meeting, it sounds like he’s working on plans for a Death Star.”

Not surprisingly, the NFL took exception with the column. In a rare move, the NFL posted a full response to the column on the league’s website. The NFL took exception with the criticism of the public costs of stadiums around the league.

“There are 13 stadium projects in the pipeline now with 74 percent ($3.2 billion) of the costs being privately financed by NFL owners. Your column says that new NFL stadiums are ‘largely publicly-financed stadiums.’ That is not true,” the league said. “Specifically, private investment accounts for 100 percent of the cost of the Jets/Giants’ MetLife Stadium, more than 60 percent in Dallas, more than 90 percent in San Francisco, more than 70 percent in Atlanta, and more than 50 percent in Minneapolis.”

On the other hand, according to the Atlantic.com, “just there of the NFL’s 31 stadiums were originally built without public funds. In two of those cases, public funding was later used to upgrade the stadium or the surrounding facilities, even as all 32 of the NFL’s teams ranked among Forbes’ 50 most valuable sporting franchises in the world in 2012.”

The NFL also criticized Litke’s take on awarding Super Bowls to areas that go along with the NFL in public-private partnerships for stadium construction.

“How is it arrogant to take the nation’s top sports event, which indisputably brings with it significant economic benefits, and hold it in communities all over the country?” the league asked in its response.

The NFL also said that if the fan demand wasn’t there, they wouldn’t be considering changing the calendar or other moves that could expand the season.

There is truth to both sides in the argument between the two sides. The NFL has every right to award the Super Bowl to any city it wants and the league has essentially moved away from a rotation of just certain cities hosting the game.

However, when the stadium deal fell through in Miami, the NFL wasted no time in sending a message to the rest of the country that if they want the big game, they will have to play ball. That was the message that even the NFL’s own network was espousing when the final Super Bowl votes were cast Tuesday.

When it comes to the calendar, the NFL can and does have the freedom to move it around how they see fit. If the quality of play on the field suffers, fans will reject it and the NFL will then move to improve the quality of the product.

The entire incident was a rare public spat for the National Football League. The league is in command of the most popular sport in America and rarely makes a move similar to the one to go after LItke’s column in such a public way.

The NFL is a multi-billion dollar business that features only owners who can cough up at least a billion dollars to join the select group. It’s a tough argument for the league to make in the current economy that public funding is needed for such a wealthy organization.

For example, an average ticket in 2011 to Soldier Field in Chicago cost $101.55. That means if the game is sold out, which they typically are, the team will gross $6,245,325 on the ticket sales alone. Adding in beverages, food, and souvenirs, and a family of four could easily spend over $500 for one game.

Yet still the NFL, and other pro sports leagues, request massive amount of public funding to help subsidize the stadium construction. The NFL can counter that other industries receive massive tax subsidies to locate in certain areas, which costs area’s millions of dollars as well.

It’s an argument that has no end and one that will not be settled any time soon.

Urban Outfitters, a popular retailer known for selling quirky clothes and off-beat housewares, currently carries shot glasses and a “can cooler” made to look like prescription drug bottles. Also, the retailer sells coasters that resemble an actual prescription note torn from a doctor’s pad.

In light of the efforts the state of Florida has ensued to stop prescription drug abuse, including regulations to close pill mills and the establishment of the Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns Task Force, Attorney General Bondi wants Urban Outfitters’ cooperation in pulling the line from its shelves, according to a news release.

“Profiting from a ‘prescription line’ that is contrary to Florida’s efforts to combat prescription drug overdoses and drinking is unacceptable. We are calling on Urban Outfitters to forgo a few sales and help us save a lot of lives.”

“These products demean the thousands of deaths that occur each month in the United States from accidental overdoses,” was written in the letter sent to Urban Outfitters on behalf of Bondi, and 22 other attorneys general.

In 2011, when Bondi first took office, Florida had 98 of the country’s top dispensing physicians of oxycodone. As of today, none of the top dispensing physicians of oxycodone reside in Florida.

The Miami-Dade School Board approved Miami Police Maj. Ian Moffett to the position of police chief during its meeting on Wednesday.

He has been a major for the last three years with the City of Miami Police Department and has been responsible for the Miami Police Department’s Training & Personnel Development Section.

Before that, Moffett served 15-years on the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department.

He held the position of Police Captain and commanded the Central Operations Section of the schools police managing over 120 schools and district sites, member of the schools police District’s Critical Incident Response Team (DCIRT), and oversaw 40 officers and civilian staff.

He also previously managed the schools police department’s administrative section and was primarily responsible for the budget, training, accreditation, along with the Gang Free Schools and Community Initiative Grant, the Emergency Response and Crisis Management Grant.

He was also assigned to the Investigative Division as a Police Lieutenant and Detective Sergeant conducting internal affairs investigations on civilian employees and criminal follow up investigations.

He also helped opened the District’s Office of the Inspector General and served as the Assistant to the Inspector General for six months. He also was a School Resource Officer at a middle and high school for a three year period.

Moffett replaces former chief Charles Hurley who resigned in February when the school system took steps to demote him amid allegations of sexual harassment against two female officers. Miami-Dade schools investigators found Hurley behaved inappropriately but not that he harassed the women.

The women have settled lawsuits in the case. Terms of the settlements were not disclosed.

Most lost funding during the recession and some didn’t survive it. The new 2013-14 budget provides new money to many programs for the first time in five years.

The Agency for Persons with Disabilities saw the first new dollars in eight years — more than $36 million — to reduce a notoriously long waiting list for services.

The Florida Guardian ad Litem program was a big winner, with $3.8 million to increase volunteers to represent dependent children in the court system and $323,000 to provide attorneys ad litem for disabled dependent children in nursing homes.

“I anticipate that soon more than 75 percent of the children who need a (Guardian ad Litem) will finally have that voice advocating for them,” wrote GAL director Alan Abramowitz to staff and volunteers.

School readiness programs for low-income working families saw their first new funding in more than 10 years, which will allow them to serve an additional 1,500 children.

For many, it was a relief just not to lose money.

“We did very well, actually,” said Linda Osmundson, longtime executive director of Community Action Stops Abuse (CASA), a program that serves domestic-violence victims in St. Petersburg. CASA had stood to lose $40,000 under a reconfigured funding formula, but instead will come out $500 ahead. “Not a big number, but for us it at least neutralized the loss.”

One of the year’s top priorities for Ted Granger, president of the United Way of Florida, was funding for homeless programs. The Legislature included $4 million for those services in its budget, of which Scott vetoed $1 million.

“The need (for homeless services) is definitely greater,” Granger said. But he remained sanguine, saying the $2 million that will go to local homeless coalitions will be used to draw down $80 million from the federal government.

Some programs, however, fell victim to Gov. Rick Scott’s veto pen.

Rep. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, was upset when the governor vetoed $1.3 million for a public-private Metropolitan Ministries’ transition housing for homeless families in Pasco County.

Fasano doesn’t buy Scott’s veto message saying he rejected the project because it hadn’t provided a “clear mechanism for objectively measuring and evaluating the return on the state’s investment.”

“For the governor to say that is a bunch of hogwash,” Fasano said. “I was the lead person in Tallahassee on the project, and I did not get a call from the governor’s office asking for a better explanation or understanding as to how this was going to help the families.”

Scott also vetoed $500,000 each for the Salvation Army’s transitional housing program in Polk County and the Okaloosa Walton Homeless Continuum of Care program. He vetoed $300,000 for the Children’s Home Society community schools pilot project.

“It’s just very disappointing that the governor would leave in the budget a rowing regatta in Sarasota that’s $5 million when we had a good program that would help families,” Fasano said.

Among the allocations Scott kept in the budget:

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
— $36.3 million to remove about 750 disabled Floridians from the Agency for Persons with Disabilities waiting list.
— $3 million for Early Steps to serve very young children who need early intervention for developmental delays.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE
— $3 million for shelter and services for child trafficking victims.
— $2.5 million for the state’s 30 rape crisis shelters.
— $316,000 for the Domestic Violence Offender Monitoring Program.
— $200,000 for the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE
— $2.6 million to expand community-based substance abuse treatment beds for drug offenders.

JUVENILE JUSTICE
— $1.5 million to expand counseling services to at-risk youth and their families in rural counties.
— $2 million to expand slots in the PACE centers statewide and open a new one in Miami-Dade.
— $5 million for the Boys and Girls Clubs to expand crime prevention programs.
— $1.5 million for the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring program for the children of incarcerated parents.

CHILDREN’S SERVICES
— $3 million for Healthy Families Florida to prevent child abuse and neglect
— $2.9 million to enhance child abuse investigative teams led by county sheriffs
— A scheduled 2.4 percent increase for Florida Kidcare, extending health care coverage to 6,899 more children

The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.

#2 San Antonio vs #5 Memphis

Game 1 — Sun, May 19, Memphis 83, San Antonio 105

Game 2 — Tue, May 21, Memphis 89, San Antonio 93 (OT)

Game 3 — Sat, May 25, San Antonio at Memphis 9 PM ET

Game 4 — Mon, May 27, San Antonio at Memphis 9 PM ET

Game 5 – Wed, May 29, Memphis at San Antonio- Time TBD

Game 6*– Fri, May 31, San Antonio at Memphis- Time TBD

Game 7*– Sun, June 2, Memphis at San Antonio- Time TBD

Eastern Conference

#1 Miami vs. #3 Indiana

Game 1 — Wed, May 22, Indiana at Miami  8:30 PM ET

Game 2 — Fri, May 24, Indiana at Miami 8:30 PM ET

Game 3 — Sun, May 26, Miami at Indiana 8:30 PM ET

Game 4 — Tue, May 28, Miami at Indiana 8:30 PM ET

Game 5*– Thu, May 30, Indiana at Miami- Time TBD

Game 6*– Sat, June 1, Miami at Indiana- Time TBD

Game 7*– Mon, June 3, Indiana at Miami- Time TBD

According to the Tampa Bay Times, Marlins Park is a venue that may be explored to hold a bowl game for the AAC. Further, the Marlins told the Tampa Bay Times that the team “would be interested in hosting a bowl game and that the stadium can be configured for football.”

The AAC, former Big East, has held bowl games in baseball stadiums in the past. The league has held bowl games at Yankee Stadium and at Tropicana Field in Tampa.

According to the Tampa Bay Times, the AAC’s commissioner, Mike Aresco, said a new bowl game is “doable” and that with ESPN’s help that it’s time his league “did something like that.”

DETROIT (AP) — Jimmy Howard’s cat-quick reflexes in net and easygoing nature out of it are big reasons the Detroit Red Wings are on a roll.

Howard has held top-seeded Chicago to only one goal in two straight games, lifting seventh-seeded Detroit to a 2-1 series lead. He was the star of the end-to-end, high-paced Game 3 the Red Wings won 4-1 on Monday night, when he became their first goalie to face at least 40 shots without giving up more than a goal in the playoffs since Greg Stefan did it 1987.

“That was probably the fastest playoff game I’ve ever been a part of,” Howard said. “I expect it just to get faster Thursday night. They’re going to step it up. We need to come even harder.”

Detroit will host Game 4 on Thursday night, shooting for a surprising win that would put Chicago on the brink of elimination.

Howard’s glove, pads and mindset give the Red Wings a shot to win every time they put on sweaters with winged wheels. Since Detroit trailed second-seeded Anaheim 3-2 in the first round, Howard has won four of five games and is averaging two goals against and 34-plus saves.

“You have to have a good goalie to go anywhere in the playoffs and we have it,” Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg said.

The Blackhawks seem confident they also have a netminder good enough to finish their season as strong as it started. Lately though, Corey Crawford has been shaky — or at least he hasn’t been able to overcome enough of his teammates’ mistakes in front of him.

Crawford won five of his first six games in the playoffs, shutting out Minnesota once and allowing a total of eight goals during his strong start. But he has given up a combined seven goals over the last two games after allowing one goal in the first period of the series opener.

When Chicago began its season-opening run of 24 games with at least a point backup goalie Ray Emery was 10-0 during the NHL record-breaking stretch while Crawford was injured. Emery finished the regular season 17-1 with a 1.94 goals-against average, leaving his last outing early because of a lower-body injury nearly a month ago at Edmonton.

Is Emery an option for Game 4?

“We’re not talking about that right now,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said Monday night. And the next day, he was succinct when asked to assess how Crawford has played the past few games.

“He’s been fine,” Quenneville said.

The Blackhawks probably don’t want to put more pressure on Crawford, but they were likely looking for more than him being “fine” in his third postseason as their No. 1 goalie.

Chicago couldn’t afford to keep Antti Niemi after he was the franchise’s backstop when it hoisted the Stanley Cup in 2010 and he beat out Marty Turco for the job the next season.

Crawford has been an impressive 82-40-18 the last three regular seasons, but a lackluster 10-11 in the playoffs. The Montreal native sounds as if he’s ready to bounce back to help the team respond well enough to avoid their first three-game losing streak since the 2011-12 season.

“We haven’t had a lot of adversity this year,” Crawford said. “We just have to dig deep and battle.”

The Red Wings, meanwhile, barely made the playoffs and they leaned on Howard a lot because their team was challenged offensively because of injuries and the retirement of Nicklas Lidstrom.

Howard had to play in 42 of 48 games during the lockout-shortened season because he didn’t have a healthy, or capable, backup for much of the season. He was 21-13-7 and tied for the league lead with five shutouts, leading to him getting a $31.8 million, six-year contract to keep him off the market as a free agent this summer.

Like Crawford, Howard has been really good during the regular season — for four seasons as a No. 1 goalie — and average in the playoffs with a .500 record going into Game 4.

In a town where the goalie is in the spotlight, win or lose, Zetterberg said Howard has the perfect temperament for the job.

“Nothing really bothers him,” Zetterberg said. “If he lets in a goal, he just flushes it and moves on.”

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Florida leads the nation when it comes to children younger than 15 who drown. Drowning is also the leading cause of death among children aged 1–4 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Government data also show that African-American and Hispanic children between the ages of 5 and 14 are at a higher risk of drowning.

To raise awareness, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission launched a pool safety campaign at an event in Washington D.C. on Wednesday.

“As we head into summer and families across the country are getting ready to take their kids to the pool, we must remind everyone how important it is to keep a careful watch on our children as they swim and ensure that their pools and spas have proper safety equipment,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told the gathering. “Working together, we can improve the safety of all pools and spas by increasing the use of layers of protection and promoting uninterrupted supervision to prevent child drowning and entrapment. With government programs like the CPSC’s Pool Safety, people can learn simple steps to take to save lives.”

CPSC Chairwoman Inez Tenenbaum said parents should never leave children unattended around the pool area, keep a cell phone handy and make sure their children can swim.

“Swimming is a great sport. People of Florida love to swim, so if swimming lessons are available we can reduce the number of drownings in Florida,” said Tannenbaum.

Parents are urged to contact the YMCA at YMCAMiami.org to find out more information on swimming programs in their area.

Best Swim Lessons For Kids In South Florida

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —Brent Burns helped San Jose jump off to a fast start with his second goal of the postseason and the Sharks tied their second-round series against Los Angeles at two games with a 2-1 victory over the Kings in Game 4 on Tuesday night.

Logan Couture followed up his overtime game-winner in Game 3 with his fifth power-play goal of the playoffs to add to the lead and Antti Niemi made 22 saves as the Sharks matched the Kings’ two home wins to open the series with two of their own.

Mike Richards scored a power-play goal and Jonathan Quick made 21 saves for the Kings, who have lost 10 of 11 road games dating to the end of the regular season.

Game 5 is Thursday night in Los Angeles when the Sharks will look to end a streak of four straight wins by the home team in this series.

After falling behind 2-0, the Kings showed some fight in a dominant third period. They got on the scoreboard on a power play when Burns was sent off for boarding Anze Kopitar.

Los Angeles wore down San Jose’s penalty killers in the offensive zone and scored when Richards knocked in a rebound of Jeff Carter’s shot.

The Kings outshot the Sharks 14-2 in the third period, holding San Jose without a shot for nearly 13 minutes but couldn’t get the equalizer against Niemi.

Couture gave the Sharks a 2-0 lead early in the second period, deflecting a point shot by Dan Boyle past Quick while Colin Fraser was in the penalty box for roughing Andrew Desjardins in the offensive zone.

The Kings started to generate the better scoring chances after that, getting denied a goal midway through the period on an early whistle by an official. Los Angeles was unable to generate a shot on goal during two power plays later in the period with Jake Muzzin, shooting high with an empty net to cost the Kings a golden opportunity at a goal.

The Sharks opened the game with one of their most dominating periods of the year to the delight of the boisterous crowd chanting “Beat L.A.! Beat L.A.!” from the start.

But San Jose had only one goal to show for that start thanks to solid play from Quick and a shot by Tommy Wingels that rang off the crossbar.

Led by the physically imposing line of captain Joe Thornton, Burns and TJ Galiardi, the Sharks spent almost the entire first period in the Los Angeles zone, outshooting the Kings 15-3 for the period.

San Jose jumped on top early when Thornton stole the puck from Slava Voynov on the forecheck and fed Burns, who shot was blocked. Thornton came up with the loose puck and slid a perfect cross-ice pass to Burns, who was not denied on his second chance, beating Quick with a one-timer for his second playoff goal.

The Kings had to feel fortunate that was all San Jose managed for the period as they killed off two penalties and withstood constant pressure from the Sharks.

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Lauderhill police said the 57-year old man, who was struck near NW 56th Avenue and Inverrary Boulevard, lives in an assisted living facility near the accident scene.  Hewas taken to Broward Health Medical Center with serious injuries.

The driver of the Ford Taurus left the scene after the accident. The car was spotted about three miles away at NW 79th Avenue and NW 44th Street and the driver was taken into custody.

Police have not released the name of the driver or the injured man.

But John Tortorella’s message isn’t going to change even though his Rangers are in an even more desperate situation than before their latest loss to the Boston Bruins.

The margin of error went from slim to none in an uncharacteristic home loss that put the Broadway Blueshirts on the brink of elimination.

New York squandered a one-goal lead in the third period and lost 2-1 on Tuesday night to fall into an 0-3 series hole. The Rangers can be ousted by the Bruins as early as Thursday in Game 4 at home.

“We’ll meet (Wednesday), practice, and we’re going to try to win a game,” Tortorella said. “That’s all you can do. Down 3-0, it’s a very tough situation, but I have full faith in our athletes. They will be ready to play another game.

“You try to win one and see where you go from there.”

After two losses in Boston, the Rangers seemed headed toward getting back into it. They had won nine straight at Madison Square Garden, dating to the final six games of the regular season, and hadn’t lost in regulation when leading after two periods in more than three years.

But defenseman Johnny Boychuk tied it 3:10 into the third and Daniel Paille scored the winner with 3:31 remaining to push the Bruins to the verge of the Eastern Conference finals.

Only three NHL teams have rallied from an 0-3 hole to advance. However, the Philadelphia Flyers did it to the Bruins in 2010.

“We haven’t talked about history at all,” Tortorella said. “We just try to go about our business.”

Bruins coach Claude Julien discussed it briefly, but only when asked about the collapse three years ago and another near one in the first round this year when Toronto nearly eliminated Boston after trailing the series 3-1.

“We can talk about it all we want, but that’s in the past,” Julien said. “We had to live with that and we still have to live with that.”

The Bruins did some rallying of their own in that one, erasing a three-goal deficit in the third period of Game 7 before winning in overtime.

“The Toronto series, I didn’t think our team was in the zone the way it is right now,” Julien said. “I anticipate — knowing my team — that we’re going to come out the same next game and certainly not be the Jekyll and Hyde team that we were in the first round.”

The Bruins shook off the 2010 collapse and swept Philadelphia in the conference semifinals the following year before going on to win the Stanley Cup.

The Rangers haven’t been swept since New Jersey did it to them in 2006 in the first round.

“You can’t look at it as you have to win four games,” said Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, who stayed down on his knees for several moments after Paille’s goal. “You just have to focus on the next one. The season is on the line, so you have to leave everything out there.

“We definitely have to give everything right now, mentally and physically, and put it out there on Thursday.”

Boychuk tied it with his fourth of the playoffs after he netted just one in 44 regular-season games.

Boston thought it had grabbed the lead seconds before Paille scored when a shot deflected off the mask of Lundqvist, popped up in the air and landed on the goal line. Lundqvist couldn’t find it before Paille swooped in from behind the net and poked in the puck.

Taylor Pyatt had made it 1-0 in the second period for the Rangers, who were outscored 8-4 in two games at Boston. Lundqvist was sharp in making 32 saves. He bounced back well after allowing five goals in the Game 2 loss.

“You have to be pretty happy with the situation right now,” said Tuukka Rask, who made 23 saves for Boston. “We were really happy with our effort. I think this was our best defensive effort in a long, long time. We just have to stay calm, keep playing our style of hockey, and good things will happen.”

The Rangers again couldn’t get their power play untracked, failing in both of their chances and dropping to 0-for-10 in the series. New York has only two power-play goals in 38 opportunities during these playoffs.

Boychuk was credited with the tying goal after the puck appeared to deflect into the net off Rangers defenseman John Moore.

The game turned rougher moments later when New York forward Chris Kreider was struck under his visor by the stick of Boston’s Tyler Seguin, who was following through on a shot just inside the blue line. Seguin was then clipped in the exchange by the stick of Rangers defenseman Steve Eminger.

Shortly after, Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron had a cut over his eye that left his white jersey bloodstained. No penalties were called on any of the plays.

New York took just its second lead of the series 3:53 into the second period when Pyatt deflected in a shot by defenseman Ryan McDonagh.

Lundqvist shined in the second, making a pad stop on Seguin about 6 1/2 minutes in, stretching across to knock away a drive by rookie defenseman Torey Krug — who scored in each of the first two games of the series — and then bringing the crowd to its feet with a lunging glove snare of Gregory Campbell’s slap shot from the left circle with 8:24 remaining.

That got the Bruins even in shots (15-15) before they outshot New York 8-1 the rest of the second.

The Rangers got off to a sluggish start after losing the opening faceoff, and didn’t mount any kind of early surge fueled by the excited home crowd. New York didn’t carry the puck into the Boston end until 1:35 had elapsed.

New York got trapped in its end more and more as the game went on, and got caught there again on the winning goal.

“They just kept us in the end zone, bouncing around, and Paille beat our defenseman back to the net and scored the goal,” Tortorella said. “We just didn’t spend enough time in their end zone.”

The Rangers picked up their play and built a 6-1 edge in shots, including scoring opportunities on Rask. New York earned the first power play of the night, however it was as ineffective as it has been throughout the postseason.

The tide turned back to the Bruins’ favor just before the midway point in the period, starting with a partial breakaway after New York turned over the puck at the Boston blue line. Chris Kelly raced ahead with the puck and was stopped in tight by Lundqvist when he tried a backhanded shot.

Shawn Thornton was also denied when he came in alone on Lundqvist with 8:46 left in the period, and Jaromir Jagr couldn’t score, either, when he got a pair of whacks at the puck that the New York goalie turned aside.

The Bruins’ surge gave them an 8-7 edge in shots, but Boston finished the period trailing 11-9.

“We were down but we weren’t playing that poorly,” Bruins captain Zdeno Chara said of the team’s third-period mindset. “We needed to stay aggressive, try to tie the game. We just wanted to get pucks to the net. We did that and we were rewarded.”

NOTES: The Rangers didn’t yield a power-play chance for the second straight home game. … New York D Anton Stralman was injured in the second period and didn’t return. … Since Boston trailed 4-1 in Game 7 against Toronto, Rask has allowed five goals in four-plus games.

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“Yeah you know we’re still learning, but I’m excited about what I see from those guys,” said quarterback Ryan Tannehill. They’re all getting a grasp on the offense and we’re starting to get a lot of reps with each other, so (we’re going to) continue to work that to get better.”

Perhaps no Dolphins player will be under more pressure this year than Tannehill. The future of the franchise rests on his right arm and his decision making ability. He’s hoping to avoid the typical sophomore slump and said that things have slowed down for him this year.

“Last year at this time my head was spinning. I was just trying to figure out how things worked,” Tannehill said Tuesday. “So being in it a year, I am completely comfortable. Now I can go out and focus on all the little things that go into the game.”

Tannehill will be looking to build on a good, but unspectacular rookie campaign. Part of the problem Tannehill had last year was no real speed or game changers at the skill positions. So, general manager Jeff Ireland addressed that in a big way in the offseason.

Between signing wide receivers Mike Wallace and Brandon Gibson, adding tight end Dustin Keller, and promoting running back Lamar Miller, the Fins have speed to burn across the field now. Wallace will be the focus of much of the passing game and he’s not lacking any confidence heading into the season.

“We can do anything, anything you go out there and work for,” Wallace said. “Everybody is going to work hard and come to work every day, and as long as we keep going in that direction, the sky is the limit.”

Another position that will be key for the Dolphins to take the next steps towards the postseason will be how left tackle Jonathan Martin fills the shoes of the recently departed Jake Long. Martin has reportedly hit the weights hard and looks like he’s ready to settle in at the anchor position on the offensive line.

“I think he’s getting back to what he played in college and he’s comfortable there,” Tannehill said. “He got to finish out the year there, and now he’s been working all offseason on that side, so I’m comfortable with him there and I think he’s comfortable as well.”

For his part, Keller said it’s going to take him a few weeks to get fully up to speed in the Fins’ offense, but that he is healthy and betting on a big year from himself and Tannehill.

“You would think that a guy who used to play wide receiver, the thing he would do best was run the ball, which he does well, but he puts the ball right on the money and he is a good decisions maker as well,” Keller said.

It’s not just the offense that will have new faces across the field. The Dolphins defense will have two new linebackers, a new rush defensive end, and a new starting cornerback. Free agent signee linebacker Dannell Ellerbe said while he’s in a new defense, he’s not worried about everyone being on the same page in a few weeks.

“It’s just the fun we have on defense. How the guys attack the day, how hard they work out and how hard they train, and just showing that they want to win,” Ellerbe said. “Speed too. This is the youngest defense I have ever been a part of.”

The Dolphins were without cornerback Jamar Taylor, who’s recovering from a hernia operation and defensive tackle Randy Starks who is the team’s franchise player, but wants a long-term deal. The Fins were also missing guard Lance Louis and left tackle Dallas Thomas who are rehabbing injuries.

Finally, the Dolphins’ first-round pick this year, defensive end Dion Jordan, was not in camp as NFL rules prevent him from joining the squad until Oregon’s classes end next month. Jordan is expected to step in immediately and give the Dolphins an added pass rush element on the outside of the defensive line.

The Census has released its annual report on per-pupil spending for public elementary and secondary schools in fiscal year 2011. Florida spent $8,887 per student, which is significantly below the national average of $10,560.

That figure placed Florida 42nd out of 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The Census data was drawn from the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011. It does not take into account what has happened the last two years.

Florida cut education spending by more than $1 billion during Gov. Rick Scott’s first year in office. Legislators restored the funding in 2012. They added more than $1 billion in the budget Scott signed on Monday.

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The video was taken about a year ago, but according to the Orlando Sentinel, surfaced on Facebook and YouTube on Monday.

Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have launched an investigation and intend to file federal charges against the men.

The video, recorded in a residential Cocoa Beach neighborhood in Brevard County, shows one of the men doing a cannonball jump onto the sea cow and her calf.

Two of the friends used fresh water from a hose to lure the gentle sea cows closer to the dock.

Officers have identified the men in the video and say they could face federal charges for harassing the endangered mammals.

The charges are expected to be filed later this week and if convicted, each of the men could serve a year-long jail sentence and have to pay up to $50,000 in fines.

If you suspect a wildlife law violation, report it to the FWC at 888-404-3922 or email tip@myfwc.com.

“I know I’m blessed to be going to the Eastern Conference finals for my fifth time,” Wade said. “But I would like a lot more in my career. It’s a good thing. We’ve been very successful in my tenure here. But I want more.”

For Wade and Udonis Haslem, this marks five East finals appearances in nine years. For LeBron James, it’s a fifth trip to this round in the past seven years, now three straight with Miami after a pair of trips to the East finals with Cleveland.

On the flip side, the Indiana Pacers haven’t been to the conference finals in years and only one player on the team has ever even played in a conference finals game. Backup center Ian Mahinmi played 71 seconds in a game in the 2011 Western Conference Finals.

Still, the Pacers have no fear when they look at the mountain that is the Miami Heat standing in their path to a bid in the NBA Finals. The Pacers won two of three meetings against the Heat this season and both teams expect the series to be physical.

For the Heat, the key will be managing the Pacers’ big men around the basket. Indiana lines up 7’2” center Roy Hibbert and 6’9” power forward David West and will want to attack Miami’s lack of bulk down low.

Last year, the Heat countered the Pacers by utilizing a smaller lineup that ended up propelling Miami to the NBA championship. The Heat will have an added weapon this year in the form of center Chris Bosh who missed much of last year’s playoff run against Indiana.

What Bosh will do is challenge Hibbert to either leave the lane and cover him on the outside, or, leave the Heat center open for jumpers on the outside. If Hibbert chooses the former, he opens up lanes for LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to attack. If Hibbert stays inside, then he allows Bosh to attack with his jump shot.

Defensively, the Heat’s big challenge will be to keep West from getting going down low while also protecting the perimeter against Paul George and George Hill in check on the outside.

The Pacers’ starting lineup includes George, West, Hibbert, Hill, and guard Lance Stephenson. The Pacers will be without forward Danny Granger for the rest of the playoffs.

The Heat will counter with its traditional starting lineup of LeBron James, Udonis Haslem, Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, and Mario Chalmers. Miami doesn’t have anyone listed on the injury report, but Wade’s knee will be an issue for the rest of the playoffs.

If Wade is near 90 to 100 percent, the Heat may be unstoppable when it comes to the Eastern Conference Finals and the NBA Finals. However, if Wade is not able to play at his normal level, Miami could be vulnerable against a young and improving Pacers squad.

The tipoff for Wednesday night’s Game 1 is expected to happen around 8:30 p.m. and can be seen either in person at the AmericanAirlines Arena or on television on TNT.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a 65-page ruling that upheld a determination by the Florida Supreme Court that John Ferguson, 65, could be executed.

The appeal centered on whether Ferguson, who has been diagnosed in the past as a paranoid schizophrenic and has said he believes he is the “Prince of God,” is competent to be executed.

“That most people would characterize Ferguson’s Prince-of-God belief, in the vernacular, as ‘crazy’ does not mean that someone who holds this belief is not competent to be executed,” according to the appeals court ruling.

Ferguson was convicted of killing eight people in South Florida. Six people died in a drug related, execution-style mass killing in Carol City in 1977. Six months later, Ferguson abducted and killed two Hialeah teenagers who had left a Youth for Christ meeting in Hialeah.

Last year Gov. Rick Scott signed a death warrant for Ferguson.

The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.

According to WDRB.com in Louisville, Bridgewater has asked that the school not put together a Heisman Trophy campaign for him. Why would Bridgewater want to do this? He said any emphasis or publicity should include the team as a whole, according to WDRB.com.

The move will likely only enhance Bridgewater’s credentials among the Heisman voters. Many schools have mounted what turned out to be embarrassing Heisman campaigns for players and even players themselves have put together material to push their Heisman candidacy.

But Bridgewater giving the proverbial stiff-arm to the school engaging in Heisman-hoopla to bring more recognition to the team and his teammates only enhances Bridgewater’s leadership qualities.

In 2012, Bridgewater led Louisville’s high-powered offense to a 12-2 record that included a victory in the Allstate Sugar Bowl over the Florida Gators. Bridgewater threw for 3,718 yards, 27 touchdowns and 8 interceptions while completing 68.5 percent of his passes.

He’s listed by heismanpundit.com as one of the top 30 players that could win the Heisman. But it’s not just the Heisman that will fuel the hype around Bridgewater.

He’s currently viewed by some NFL analysts as the top overall quarterback in the country for next year’s NFL Draft. Bridgewater is currently ranked second on Mel Kiper’s Big Board behind only South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, according to WDRB.com.

According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Taylor underwent a procedure to repair a hernia he recently suffered. The surgery will reportedly keep Taylor out of Miami’s offseason team activities for the next three weeks.

The Sun-Sentinel reported that Taylor might be cleared to take part in the team’s next minicamp which will be held on June 11-13.

Taylor was selected in the second round of the NFL Draft, but most scouts believed he is a better cornerback than Kyle Wilson who was also selected out of Boise State, but was taken in the first round by the New York Jets.

In Taylor’s final season in Boise, he recorded 51 tackles, 2.5 sacks, 9 passes broken up and four interceptions. He also runs a 4.37 40-yard dash and has a 35 inch vertical jump.

Once Taylor is cleared to play, he could immediately move up the depth chart to the number three cornerback position behind starters Brent Grimes and Richard Marshall.

The study, from the University of Amsterdam, found that on average, citizens in Western countries have lost 14 IQ points from 1884-2004.

The study is the exact opposite of multiple other studies citing the Flynn effect that showed a worldwide increase in measured IQ scores of roughly 3 points a decade since World War II.

So what does the study blame for the loss in IQ? According to the Huffington Post, the authors said that women of high intelligence typically have fewer children than women of low intelligence generating a negative association between IQ and fertility.

Still, the authors of the study acknowledged there are limitations to the study and that the true measure of decline could come out with far different numbers.

“It should also be emphasized that whilst our value of a − 14.1 IQ point decline is an estimate based on the best meta-analytical data available, a simple inspection of our figure shows there is a non-negligible amount of scatter around the regression line,” the study’s authors wrote. “The real magnitude of the effect might therefore be several IQ points lower or even higher.”

Delmon Young homered and Howard added three hits and three RBIs to help carry the Phillies to a 7-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night.

Utley was a late scratch with a rib injury suffered during batting practice. Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said the second baseman would be evaluated on Wednesday.

“When he took a swing, he kind of felt a burn, a pain, in his rib cage,” Manuel said.

Also before the game, Philadelphia placed catcher Carlos Ruiz (strained hamstring) on the 15-day disabled list.

Young, meanwhile, had two hits to raise his average to .214 after returning from offseason ankle surgery. Howard returned to the lineup after missing the previous two games with a sore left knee.

“We haven’t been scoring many runs and I haven’t been contributing like I’m capable of,” Young said. “Hopefully we can carry this over to tomorrow and the rest of this road trip because we’re going to need to score runs the rest of this road trip to win ballgames.”

Manuel said he glad to see Young “click” and homer for the second time this season.

“We think Delmon can hit,” Manuel said. “He’s 27-years-old, we definitely think he has a lot of baseball left in him. It’s just a matter of him getting some at-bats and getting going.”

Howard said he felt good two days after getting a cortisone shot on his left knee.

“It felt better. I’ll just continue to try and build on it,” Howard said. “I saw the ball pretty well and was able to get a couple of knocks off two lefties. Really, I was just focused on putting together good at-bats.”

Tyler Cloyd (1-0) allowed two runs and eight hits in seven innings. He was recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley (International League) earlier in the day.

“Up here, I’m definitely keeping the ball down more than I did at Triple-A,” Cloyd said. “I think I try to do too much down there and get out of my game at certain times.”

Miami’s Jose Fernandez went five innings, allowing one run and five hits. He walked one and struck out two.

“Every time I can go out there and give the team a chance to win and a chance to stay in the ball game, I’m happy,” Fernandez said.

Philadelphia went ahead 2-1 in the sixth when Domonic Brown’s ground out scored Howard from third. Howard led off with a single and took third on Young’s double to deep center off Duane Below (0-1).

Howard’s single with the bases loaded scored two runs and highlighted a four-run seventh that gave the Phillies a 6-1 lead. He received a cortisone shot Sunday.

Young’s ground out and Brown’s double scored the other Phillies runs in the seventh. Young homered to left-center on a 2-2 pitch with one out in the fourth. It was his second home run of the season.

Juan Pierre’s seventh-inning RBI single pulled Miami within 6-2.

Howard added an RBI single in the eighth off Wade LeBlanc.

Miami’s Justin Ruggiano had a run-scoring double with two outs in the ninth.

Pinch-hitter Jordan Brown’s sacrifice fly in the fifth scored Placido Polanco to tie it at 1 and take Fernandez off the hook.

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Collier County Sheriff’s deputies found Jacqueline Walters Danforth, 44, and a male passenger in an SUV stopped on I-75 early Sunday morning. Both occupants reportedly had trouble walking.

Danforth was arrested after she reportedly refused a field sobriety test. A breath test given at the jail recorded a blood alcohol level of 0.218 percent. Florida law considers a driver impaired at 0.08.

She was released on $1,000 bail.

Walters, who adopted Danforth as a baby, has discussed her daughter’s struggles with drug abuse in the past.

What you don’t know about the medicines you are giving your kids can do them more harm than good. While your first line of defense should always be a call to the pediatrician, here is a list of some medicine cabinet don’ts you should know before treating your child’s cold at home.

• Aspirin – This common staple can be fatal to children, even in small doses. Aspirin has been linked to Reye’s Syndrome and can also cause a wide variety of symptoms, including lethargic behavior or conversely, agitation, nausea, seizures and vomiting.
• Over-the-counter pain relievers – Over-the-counter pain relievers are used to bring down fever and calm muscle aches. They include ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) and acetaminophen (Tylenol) but can also be purchased under a variety of other brand names. Never give your child an adult-strength pain reliever as their dosages will typically exceed the recommended children’s level. And never give a child any medication containing codeine, a dangerous narcotic which can cause serious or even fatal complications. It may be hard to just let a fever run its course but sometimes, that is the best thing you can do for your child. Always check with your doctor and let them know how high your child’s fever is in order to get the best recommendation for either treating it or leaving it alone.
• Nasal sprays – Never use an over-the-coutner or prescription nasal spray on your child without a doctor’s approval. Nasal sprays can cause agitation, spike blood pressure and cause dizziness, particularly when combined with other medications used to treat colds. Some nasal sprays have also been linked to reduced growth in childhood. A sterile saline solution may be just as effective in relieving sinus pressure and is a whole lot safer for little noses.  
• Over-the-counter cough and cold medicine – Both the FDA and drug manufacturers urge parents not to give children under the age of two over-the-counter cough and cold medicine. The risk of side effects outweighs potential product benefits, as medications such as cough suppressants, cough expectorants, decongestants and antihistamines have little positive effect on children’s cold symptoms. No child of any age should be given any type of adult medication, including cough and cold liquids or tablets. If you do have to administer a child-safe liquid medicine to your child, make sure you only use the enclosed measuring spoon to avoid giving a dose that is too large or too small.
• Muscle rubs – Muscle rubs like Vicks Vapor Rub and Tiger Balm can feel very soothing to a sick child, but are not benign. These products typically contain camphor, which if accidentally ingested or applied too liberally can be toxic, causing the rapid onset of seizures and in some cases, death. Never use a muscle rub on a child under the age of two and check with your doctor before you use it on children under the age of 12.   
• Holistic medications – Don’t assume a product is safe simply because it is all natural. Holistic medications such as oil of wintergreen, used for headache, fever and sore throat, can easily be over applied or accidentally ingested. A mere teaspoon can be the equivalent of a potentially lethal dose of baby aspirin. Check with your doctor before you use any holistic medications and never combine them with other medications unless you have a physician’s approval.

No matter what you reach for when your child is sick, make sure that it, and all of the other medications in your home, are out of the reach of little hands. Child-resistant caps can buy you time but are not fool-proof. Make sure your medicine cabinet is locked at all times, even if the children in your life only come over to visit.

If your child does accidentally ingest something inappropriate, is given the wrong dosage of a medication, or if you simply suspect that they have swallowed something they shouldn’t have, call poison control at 1-800-222-1222 or 911 immediately. A wait-and-see attitude can cost precious time or even a child’s life.

Corey Whelan is a freelance writer in New York. Her work can be found at Examiner.com.

Believe it or not, someone you know may already be using digital decoy apps.

Every day, there seems to be another public figure busted in an email or texting scandal. But for every public scandal, there are likely many more that are never revealed because of new technology. The technology that helps people hide and even disguise secret emails and texts.

“You’ll never know what the words are saying, what the photo has in it, you won’t know anything,” said tech expert Lance Ulanoff of Mashable.

The method for concealing risky communication is using apps with names like “Call and Text Eraser” and “Hide My Text.” All have the same goal, to help users hide and encrypt all sorts of things on their phones, from photos and text messages to entire call logs and contacts.

“One of the best examples is ‘Black SMS’,” Ulanoff said. “If someone picks up your phone, all they’re going to see are black bubbles.”

Ulanoff said other apps can actually hide a text within a text, so that when someone looks at your phone, they don’t see the real message.

“So what you’ll see is a very short normal conversation, but what you don’t know is behind that is a different conversation that’s encrypted,” he said.

And it’s not just phones. Some websites offer a free service that allows you to send a self-destructing message to someone. Type the message and set the time to self-destruct, and once the message is received and opened, the clock will countdown to zero and the message will disappear forever.

While it sound harmless, parents like Carol Coleman fear teens will use them to find ways around their watchful eyes.

“It’s scary in a way, just not knowing,” she said.

Gerry Polucci is the founder of SmartParents, a service seeking to level the playing field between parents and teens.

“There’s been kind of an arms race between parents and technology,” she said, “And parents are losing.”

Polucci teaches adults about the latest technology kids are using to secretly communicate. Take for example Snapchat. It is a popular service with teens who like to send photos, but want those photos to disappear from the receiver’s phone shortly after they’re viewed.

“I’m not going to deny that pictures that are really risqué go through that, too,” teen Hailey Marshall said.

But before you become too paranoid, experts say these digital decoys aren’t only used for illicit activities. They can also be used to keep certain matters private, like the planning of a surprise birthday party or the details of a job interview.

“We’re a very nice little community,” insisted Mayor Mike Cinque. “No better place to raise your children.”

For city leaders like Cinque, Zecca’s arrest is an unwanted shadow over a town already struggling economically. Nearly one quarter of Marathon’s population has packed up and left in recent years. Its main street has been taken over by cut rate T-shirt shops, strip malls, and empty store fronts.

“It’s just like the old days,” explained Dave Maimon, a longtime town resident and frequent critic of city government. “You got to follow the money and the cocaine.”

Zecca has pleaded not guilty to the charges and his trial is set for this summer. His attorney said the allegations are not true and that DEA informant is lying.

Nevertheless, tales of murder-for-hire are hardly good for business. Even worse, after Zecca’s arrest, FBI agents virtually set up shop inside Marathon, pulling records and interviewing members of the city council.

“I met with the FBI,” the mayor acknowledged. “I sat down and talked to them and had a good long conversation with them for over three hours.”

Cinque said he thought the FBI was just being thorough because the alleged target in the murder-for-hire plan was Bruce Schmitt, a prominent and wealthy developer in the Florida Keys.

“The so-called person that was the victim in this so-called murder for hire is a very well known businessman in town,” Cinque said. “And his brother and him are probably two of the most well known and two of the wealthiest people in the community. So I’m sure the FBI is checking every little corner to make this case.

“I think the FBI is trying to do their job but I think sometimes the FBI, you know, they get out here and, I don’t know, looking at the city,” he said, his voice trailing off. “I have no idea. I know of nothing the city has done wrong [or] anybody in the city has done wrong.”

For Maimon, Zecca’s arrest exposes a darker side of Marathon few want to talk about.

“I think it’s a corrupt little city,” he said. He said there has long been a cozy relationship between certain segments of the community.

“What happens in this city is controlled by a few people and if you’re on their bad side watch out,” he said.

After commanding the Coast Guard station in Islamorada, Zecca moved to Marathon seven years ago and became part owner of Marathon Marina and Boatyard. He has also served as an unpaid consultant for the city on various projects

According to the federal indictment, sometime last year Zecca sought to purchase 10 kilos of cocaine from a handyman at his marina who claimed to have friends looking to sell.

As they were negotiating the deal, Zecca allegedly asked his handyman if he could also kill Bruce Schmitt.

A frequent critic of city government who often appeared before the city council, Schmitt came from one of the wealthiest families in Marathon that still owns a large portion of the city.

Zecca didn’t give a reason why he wanted Schmitt killed.

But he did give the handyman a gun with a single bullet in the chamber, according to federal prosecutors. Zecca told the nascent killer to kill Schmitt at Schmitt’s waterfront home before Christmas.

Unfortunately for Zecca, the drug deal was a federal sting and the handyman a DEA informant.

As part of the sting, the FBI had Schmitt pretend to be killed. They posed Schmitt on the ground outside his house and took pictures of him, which were later photo-shopped to show blood and a bullet wound.

Since Zecca’s arrest the town has been buzzing.

“It’s been the talk of conversation at the coffee shops,” admitted Cinque.

Fueling that talk, during a recent hearing federal prosecutors announced the investigation was continuing and they believed Zecca was aided by “associates or co-conspirators” in the murder for hire plot.

“Do you think we know the whole story yet?” CBS4’s Jim DeFede asked Maimon.

“I don’t believe we know any of the story,” Maimon replied.

Maimon said a lot of powerful folks in Marathon are worried.

So why would anyone want to kill Bruce Schmitt?

“Jim I’m as confused as anybody else in this whole situation, okay,” said a flustered Ralph Lucignano, owner of several businesses in Marathon, including Marathon Liquors. “I’ve been here for 35 years, I work everyday, and I don’t know what’s going on.”

Ralph Lucignano sits on the city’s planning committee. Schmitt and Lucignano are longtime business rivals. In 2007 the city council passed an ordinance which kept Schmitt from opening a liquor store down the street from Lucignano’s.

For years Schmitt fought to have the law overturned, and last year a judge agreed, clearing the way for Schmitt to start competing with Lucignano.

Federal agents have shown interest in Lucignano, pulling records relating to his time on the city planning commission, as well as records relating to his home.

“[The FBI] asked me about Ralph Lucignano,” Cinque said when asked directly about it. “I think you are getting really way off base here. That’s just a lot of rumor. That’s a lot of speculation. That’s a lot of fallacy. And that’s just making a lot of poop out of nothing, to be honest with you.”

But Cinque did say the rivalry between Ralph Lucignano and Bruce Schmitt extends beyond business.

“They’ve had some common interests besides liquor licenses and other things,” he said, alluding to the fact that Lucignano’s former girlfriend is now living with Schmitt.

“This is just small town garbage that ain’t gonna go anywhere,” he said of the gossip.

Lucignano’s house and Schmitt’s house face each other and are separated by a narrow stretch of water.

A former New Jersey motorcycle cop, Lucignano told CBS4 News the FBI came to his house to question him after Zecca’s arrest. And he said he knows they have been pulling all sorts of records related to his business dealings.

“Well I own a liquor store, I can’t deny that,” Lucignano said. “I own the Plaza Grill [restaurant] here and I own the fitness center. What can I say, that’s me, I’m here.”

Lucignano said he is embarrassed by the attention this case has brought him.

“I hope everything gets straightened out alright,” he said. “It’s not good for the community and I feel bad for everybody involved.”

Schmitt declined our request for an interview. After initially fleeing the country for Costa Rica when the attempt on his life was first uncovered, he recently returned to Marathon. Still worried about his safety, he now carries a gun.