Welcome to our latest edition of the Bronx News Roundup. These are the Bronx stories we’re following today.

Earlier this morning a gun rumor surfaced in Crotona Park elementary school PS 4, leading the building into a lock down. As reported by the Daily News, a staff member heard one student tell another that he was in possession of a gun. This was reported to a school administrator. It was later discovered that the “weapon” was in fact a Nerf gun, a harmless toy. Authorities said there were no injuries or arrests, but that the student may face disciplinary actions at school.

FreshDirect has their eye on one of the last available South Bronx site for their 500,000 square foot facility. But urban planners and opponents to the facility are coming together with their own greener and community-orientated plans. According to DNAinfo.com, professor of urban affairs at Hunter College, Tom Angotti refuses to give in to another building site, even stating that to “…so many people in City Hall and elsewhere, (see this as) just a dumping ground.”

Read more on the alternative plans at DNinfo.com

Judges from all over New York state are now being recruited for assistance in the long list of Bronx judicial backlogs. Cases that have been neglected are now being addressed. Judges from Albany and Oswego are being called to volunteer for what New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman is calling, “a judicial SWAT team.”

Read more at New York Law Journal.

Bronx teen Crystile Carter shook hands with President Obama after being one of five to win the Boys & Girls Club of America’s Youth of the Year award. Despite her childhood adversity, including a mother’s abandonment and residency in several group homes, Carter successfully made it to the White House yesterday to greet and exchange some words with Obama. Carter told the Washington’s Daily News of Obama’s autograph, addressed specifically to her, marked in her journal — “Crystile, dream big dreams,” it said.

For more on Crystile Carter’s story, visit the DailyNews.com

An 80-year-old Bronx artist is having her self-portraits featured at The Bronx Museum of the Arts on the Grand Concourse, near where she grew up. The artist, Joan Semmel concentrates on the aging body and face. You can check out Semmel’s exhibition — free of charge — until the exhibition’s closing, June 9.

Read more about Joan Semmel and the history and impact of her art work at DNA Info.com.