Welcome to Monday’s edition of the Bronx News Roundup. Here are the stories we’re following today, starting with the weather forecast: Sunny, hot, high around 90.

Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is endorsing 80th Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera in her re-election bid today. In perhaps the Bronx’s most-heated and competitive primary race this fall, Rivera is facing a well-funded opponent in Mark Gjonaj. The 80th AD runs from Morris Park through parts of Norwood. The primary is on Thursday, Sept. 13.

With plans for a $22 million overhaul recently finalized, the Bronx’s Crotona Park is set to become a regional center for tennis tournaments and youth programs, the Daily News reports. The project will include the renovation of 20 existing courts, the addition of two five-court bubbles for play during the winter, two stadium courts with seats for 400 spectators and a separate two-story building for locker rooms, class rooms, an equipment shop and more. The EmblemHealth Bronx Open, an annual women’s professional tournament, started yesterday in Crotona Park and runs through Aug. 12.

Very interesting piece in the Times focusing on the Bronx’s booming check cashing industry, which is often criticized for charging exorbitant fees and taking advantage of poor people who don’t have access to traditional banks. One chain is now offering a free savings account through a credit union, which some say is a step in the right direction, while others say it’s a PR move as the industry pushes for loosening of short-term loan regulations. Here are some startling numbers: There are now 131 check-cashing stores in the Bronx, up from 118 five years ago. During that same time, banks in the Bronx have grown only slightly, from 145 to 152. A 2010 study found that 28.7 percent of Bronxites do not have a bank account. That’s almost double the percentage of residents who don’t have accounts in Brooklyn (15.7 percent).

Derrick Richardson, 21, was shot and killed late Saturday night on Valentine Avenue, near East 184th Street, just a few blocks from his home. Police are investigating. No arrests have been made. [AP via WSJ]

The funeral for 4-year-old Bronx boy Lloyd Morgan, whose parents called him “Chris” and who was killed by a stray bullet two weeks ago, turned into a call for action against gun violence, WNYC reports.

A NY Times photographer was arrested last night in the Bronx while trying to do his job taking pictures during the arrest of a teenage girl near McClellan Street and Sheridan Avenue. The photographer, Robert Stolarik, said officers slammed his camera into his face and beat him. Police say they were trying to disperse the crowd and the photographer kept moving forward, “inadvertently” hitting an officer in the face with his camera. They said Stolarik was violently resisting arrest.

Police say a drunk man fleeing from officers in Westchester County slammed into a Saturn in the Bronx, injuring two women, the Daily News reports.

A new boat-shaped play space for kids has opened up in Hunts Point, the NY Post reports.

GalleristNY takes a look at French artist Sophie Calle’s work, born out of the South Bronx in 1980 and now presented as part of the Bronx Museum’s new “Urban Archives: The Rituals of Chaos” exhibit. Calle’s work, a series of photographs of Bronxites who showed the artist something they would remember if they ever left the Bronx. Right before it was to originally show at Fashion Moda, an “alternative” South Bronx space, Calle’s work and everything else in the gallery was tagged by graffiti artists who had broken in.

Despite a ruling allowing teachers to keep their jobs, many teachers at the Bronx’s Lehman High School, one of the city’s 24 “turnaround” schools are fleeing for a less tumultuous situation, the Daily News reports.

Supreme Court Justice and Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor teamed up with the Bronx Children’s Museum to help kids Dream Big. [NY1]

The King Charles Troupe of basketball playing unicyclists were scheduled to play at the Jackson Houses on Sunday, Daily News reports. (We wrote about an in-depth piece about this legendary troupe two years ago.)

And finally, Bob Kappsatter’s Bronx Times column talks about possible successors for boro prez if Ruben Diaz Jr. runs for public advocate. The front-runner: east Bronx Councilman Jimmy Vacca. Other possibilities include west Bronxers like Councilmen Joel Rivera and Fernando Cabrera and State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who, according to one political operative, is a “Prodigious fundraiser, but doesn’t play well with other pols in the County sandbox.”

That’s all for today. Send links and news tips to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.