Good morning! Welcome back to Breaking Bronx. We’re in for another beautiful day of spring weather today, with plenty of sunshine and a high of 68. Enjoy it. Here are the local news stories we’re following this Wednesday:

Local leaders and politicians are once again looking for ways to battle the ongoing problem of dog poop on sidewalks here in the Bronx. Raising fines and increasing funding for enforcement of the city’s pooper-scooper law are among the suggestions, according to the Daily News.

Opening arguments being today in the corruption trial of former Bronx State Sen. Pedro Espada. Espada and his son are accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the network of nonprofit health clinics they ran.

Bronx student activists, including those from Sistas and Brothas United, the youth arm of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, are protesting what they are calling overly punitive punishments in schools doled out to Bronx students of color. Recently released data showed that nearly half of the 532 summonses that school safety officers issued to New York City students during the last three months of 2011 were written in the Bronx alone.

A grand jury will decide whether or not criminal charges should be sought against the NYPD officers who shot and killed unarmed Bronx teen Ramarley Graham last month.

Students at Bronx Regional High School and Arturo A. Schomburg Satellite Academy, which share a building, are fighting the city’s plan to co-locate a charter school for teens involved in the criminal justice system into the space.

A new Fine Fare supermarket is coming to Williamsbridge, at East Gun Hill Road and White Plains Road. The city is giving $4.5 million in tax breaks to the project under the FRESH initiative, which looks to increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables in neighborhoods that lack major grocers.

Nonprofit group Project Enterprise is helping entrepreneurial Bronxites get their businesses off the ground by providing them with small loans.