Welcome to today’s Bronx News Roundup. Here are the stories we’re following this Wednesday, starting with the weather: Thunderstorms possible later this afternoon and early evening, high of 88.

Of the record 51 million tourists who visited New York City last year, only about 10 percent made it up to the Bronx. ABC news reports that the Bronx is still trying to shed its “hard knocks image.”

The NY Times analyzed the recording-setting 680,000 stop and frisk encounters in the city last year and found that physical force was used at a much higher percentage at two West Bronx precincts — the 44th and 46th.

There are as many as seven candidates vying for the northeast Bronx Council seat vacated by convicted felon Larry Seabrook — the Daily News lists Johnnie Goff, Pamela Johnson, Joseph Nwachukwu, Cheryl Simmons-Oliver, Larry Warden and Michael Welch as having filed petitions with the campaign finance board — but Seabrook rival Andy King, who also filed with the campaign finance board, has emerged as the top choice of the Bronx County Democratic Committee, the DN‘s Dan Beekman reports. Lots of good background here on all the candidates. The special election to replace Seabrook will be held at the same time of the general election, Tuesday, Nov. 6. Because it’s a non-partisan election in the Democrat-drenched Bronx, this will be the only local race worth watching that day.

As the city continues to negoatiate a long term deal with the Hunts Point Market, the city’s largest wholesale produce distributor, advocates want to see more midsize farms invited to sell their goods as well as a new farmer’s market, the Times reports.

This Gotham Schools article says it all in its lead: “About 21 percent of the city’s middle- and high-schoolers attend schools in the Bronx. But 48 percent of the summonses that police handed out in schools last year went to Bronx students.” That’s a lot of Bronx students being arrested. The background is that the DOE is now required to publish arrest statistics every three months and the NY Civil Liberties Union says these statistics show that 95 percent of those arrested are either black or Latino. The NYCLU wants police presence in schools scaled back and for more of the discipline to be handled by faculty rather than the NYPD. The DOE says doesn’t want to change a thing, saying the beefed up police presence has helped curb major and violent crimes in schools over the last decade.

State Senator Jeff Klein helped a Morris Park woman thwart a scam involving an online payday loan and someone impersonating representatives from the Attorney General’s office who were asking the woman for money, the Daily News reports.

Bronxite Lawrence Johnson was sentenced to 25 years to life for killing his infant daughter by punching her in the face while she was sleeping, the Daily News reports.

A 21-year-old woman who was assaulted in Woodlawn a month ago, talks about her ordeal after being hit in the face with a brick which led to reconstructive face surgery, Irish Central reports. Alisha Jordan says she’s become somewhat of a celebrity back home in Ireland and in Woodlawn after news of the attack went viral.

Police busted a man who they say mugged a 9-year-old Bronx boy on Belmont Avenue, the NY Post reports.

Facing criminal charges for his role as a member of the Courtlandt Avenue Crew, Melvin “Melly” Colon posted messages on his Facebook page boasting of illegal behavior like murdering people and selling lots of crack cocaine, the NY Post reports. In light of this and yesterday’s top story, let this be a lesson to all gangsters and elected officials: Don’t put your dirt on Facebook, it will be your undoing! (Wait. Scratch that. On second thought, criminals and elected officials, do put your dirt on Facebook, it will make it easier for cops to arrest you and for us to report about you!)

That’s it for today. See you tomorrow. Send links and news tips to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.