Welcome back to another action-packed edition of the Bronx News Roundup. Here are the stories we are following today, starting with the weather: The lovely sun you’re enjoying today is supposed to give way to heavy rain overnight and tomorrow. Pack your galoshes.

Very important story in today’s Daily News about the financial struggles of the Bronx Historical Society, which were compounded last week when a water pipe broke in its archives building, costing the Society $9,000 that it could barely afford to spend. That disaster, on top of the sluggish economy, has put the organization, founded in 1955, in a tough situation with little room to provide programming. They are hoping to generate some much needed revenue at a golf fundraiser on Thursday, Sept. 20. For more information on the society, fundraiser or other ways you can help out, call (718) 881-8900 or visit bronxhistoricalsociety.org. (Editor’s note: The Norwood News holds copies of its archives at BCHS.)

Bronx Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera, who is under investigation for the questionable hiring of two former boyfriends, is being lumped in with another embattled NYC pol, indicted State Senator Shirley Huntley of Queens. Both were defeated in primaries last Thursday. (Rivera has not been charged with any wrongdoing.) [Times, Post, Gothamist, Daily News]

Looks like the Daily News is the only media outlet to hear from Rivera who didn’t speak to the media in the weeks leading up to the primary. She blamed her double digit loss on dirty politics: “This has been a difficult campaign, unlike anything I have ever witnessed in my career — not a campaign based on substance or issues but on pathetic smear attacks,” she told the DN while fleeing from her campaign office.

The Post received (and happily accepted) credit for ousting Rivera and Huntley. Mark Gjonaj, who beat Rivera, reportedly asked a reporter if he could buy a lifetime subscription.

Investigators are looking into a Kingsbridge-area fire that left several residents and firefighters injured last Wednesday night. [NY1]

The Bronx-bred, computer-generated Lumiphonic Creature Choir was scheduled to make its debut on Saturday. [DNAinfo]

The murdered wife of Bronxite Edwin Coello, a former NYPD cop who is being charged with the killing, sent Coello text messages saying she wanted a divorce right before she disappeared in March of 2011. Coello’s alibi is also unraveling. [NY Post]

The failed Freedomland amusement park in Parkchester made way for the more successful Bay Plaza mall, which is undergoing a $300 million expansion. [WSJ]

DNAinfo reporter Jeanmarie Evelly (ex-NNer) reports on a new sidewalk Pelham Bay residents say has made the street dangerously narrow.

According to Gothamist, the best fresh mozzarella in NYC is at Casa Della Mozzarella on Arthur Avenue. Here’s gooey video of the cheese-making process, courtesy of Gothamist:

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