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Bronx Links, Wednesday

Good morning! Thanks for tuning in to Breaking Bronx this Leap Year Day Wednesday. Weather: Cloudy, chance of rain, high of 43. Here are the Bronx stories we’re reading this morning.

  • And you thought you lived in a dangerous neighborhood? For the second time in two years, a car crashed into Steven Campbell’s home on Monday morning after swerving off of a Cross Bronx Expressway service road (Wood Avenue) and through his fence and smack into his garage, which sits on Taylor Avenue.
  • Diaz, whose “What you should know” e-mail missives are becoming common fodder for political blogs (and other Bronx blogs), blasted a Congressional redistricting plan that would extend Charles Rangel’s district up (currently confined to upper Manhattan) through the Bronx and into Mt. Vernon.
  • A Bronx mechanic is suing the Bronx DA’s Office for pursuing a drug case against him that he considered flimsy and reckless. The mechanic was acquitted of the charges in 20 minutes. The Bronx DA says there was no wrongdoing in the case.

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