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Bronx News Roundup, August 10

Happy Friday, everyone, and welcome to today’s Bronx News Roundup. Here are today’s stories starting with the weekend forecast: today and tonight, rain and thunderstorms, high of 82. Saturday and Sunday, party cloudy with isolated thunderstorms, highs in the mid-80s.

We’ll start with one of our favorites, Kappy’s Bronx Times column — plenty on the September 13 primary and “mayoral wannabes.”

FDNY has been busy in the Bronx today: A fire on the corner of Webster Ave. and Gun Hill Rd. closed four businessess, and a man fell head first into a basement sump pump, according to DNAinfo.

Bronx native David Berkowitz, better known as the “Son of Sam” killer, opened up to the Daily News about life in prison and his “regrets.” The born-again Christian also decried the recent rise in gun violence across the country — including here in the Bronx — as “senseless.”

NY1 is reporting that police are looking for three suspects who tased and robbed a man on a 1 train last month before escaping at the 231st Street and Broadway station.

On Sunday, Yankee Stadium will host thousands of runners participating in a 5k for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. [Daily News]

And here’s a feel-good story for the weekend from the Daily News: Bronx teen Kujegi Camara is headed to Princeton this fall on a full ride, where she plans to study international relations. The oldest of eight children to Muslim immigrants from Gambia, Kujegi is currently participatig in the Children’s Aid Society’s Summer Institute in Harlem. Here’s a great quote from the Morris Heights student: “I’m glad I grew up in the Bronx, because everyone stereotypes it. When I see someone from the Bronx make it, I get really excited, because it just takes one person to make an upward trend.” You go, girl.

That’s all we have today. Send links and new tips to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.

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