Happy Monday, folks, welcome back to another installment of the Bronx News Roundup. These are the stories we’re following today, starting with the weather forecast: Strong chance of rain tonight, but should clear up and be sunny and beautiful for the next few days. Note: the Roundup will return on Wednesday. Tomorrow we will be knee-deep in production of the this week’s print edition of the Norwood News.

Two riders in yesterday’s Tour de Bronx — Felipe Duarte, 35, and Rebecca Comninaki, 31 —got hitched right before the bike ride started, the Daily News reports.

Big fire this morning torched a home on East 184th Street, a few block south of Fordham Road, NY1 reports. Luckily, no one was inside, but a handful of firefighters suffered minor injuries.

Police believe an ex-boyfriend killed a woman and a man in a Bronx hotel room early Saturday morning, the Daily News reports.

Disgraced former Bronx State Senator Pedro Espada, and his son, pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges today in a Brooklyn federal court. He faces up to 87 months in prison after already being convicted of stealing more than $400,000 from the nonprofit healthcare clinic he founded more than 30 years ago. His plea wraps up a three-year long investigation into Espada’s dealings that was initiated by then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Friday, Cuomo released a statement that ends with a zinger: “Nearly three years ago, my Attorney General’s Office brought a case against then Senator Pedro Espada for looting his taxpayer-funded not for profit and abusing his position of public trust,” Cuomo said. “Mr. Espada’s reaction was to lash out again and again and to falsely disparage and accuse my Office of engaging in a politically-motivated witch hunt. Today, I give Mr. Espada the last word – when he says, ‘guilty.'” [NBC]

Interesting story from the Times on how, without the services of a full-scale animal shelter in the Bronx,  amateur animal rescuers are taking matters into their own hands.

A Bronx man claimed in court that he under the spell of a curse when he raped and murdered a woman in East Harlem last November. [Daily News]

The city’s controversial stop and frisk tactics will come under legal scrutiny this week during a trial in the Bronx. [NY Post]

A car slammed into a Morris Park bakery on Sunday afternoon. [NBC]

A Bronx middle school teacher was disciplined for forcing her students to pray to God, the Daily News reports.

Cool story in Saturday’s Times on Van Cortlandt Park’s rigorous cross country course.

The Yankees-Tigers playoff series is dividing at least one Bronx couple, the Daily News reports.

Speaking of the Bronx Bombers, poor Derek Jeter. Ouch. He’ll probably need surgery for his fractured ankle and the Yanks will have to dig themselves out of a 2-game deficit in the best of seven series against the Tigers. Warning: the video below contains graphic images of a superstar getting badly hurt. Some fans may want to skip to the next video, which is a little more uplifting. [Daily News]

And finally, we just had to include this clip from “Fearless” Felix Baumgartner’s free fall yesterday from 24 miles above the earth. His initial drop from the cusp of space is breathtaking.

That’s it for today. We’ll be back on Wednesday. Send links and news tips to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.