Wishing you a happy and safe Easter LEESBURG, FLORIDA Sunday, April 20, 2014 www.dailycommercial.com SOFTBALL: Lake-Sumter State BOMB SCARE: Four suspicious College wraps up homestand, B1 packages detonated at Lowe’s, A3 Closing Boston amid bomber hunt was ‘tough’ BOB SALSBERG Associated Press BOSTON MARATHON BOSTON — Several WHEN: Monday at days after the Boston 9:32 a.m. (Women’s Marathon bombing, Elite) and 10 a.m. Gov. Deval Patrick re- (Men’s Elite) ceived a call in the pre- WHERE: Boston, Mass. dawn hours from a top WATCH: Universal aide telling him that Sports Network police officers outside LIVE STREAM: Watch- the city had just en- Live.BAA.org gaged in a ferocious gun battle with the two Shelter in place. men suspected of set- And for the better ting the bombs and BRETT LE BLANC / DAILY COMMERCIAL part of April 19, 2013, Chip Simpson, a 58-year-old salesman at Gator Harley-Davidson in Leesburg rearranges motorcycles on the showroom floor that one was dead and the other had fled. nearly everyone did. in preparation for BikeFest on Friday. John Malik Jr., owner of Gator Harley, said he expects to sell about 60 motorcycles On what otherwise over the BikeFest weekend. Within hours, Patrick shut down the region’s would be a normal LEESBURG public transportation weekday, people stayed system and made a re- home. Stores in Boston quest of more than 1 were shuttered, streets million greater Boston deserted and an eerie Sound of money residents: SEE HUNT | A2 For merchants, the roar of motorcycles means profit THERESA CAMPBELL and dance by the per capita AUSTIN FULLER | Staff Writers spending by out-of-
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