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UPDATE Kingsbridge Heights: Arrested Husband of Bronx Daycare Center Caretaker Charged with Drug Trafficking Resulting in Death

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Felix Herrera Garcia, the arrested husband of Grei Mendez, the caretaker of Kingsbridge Heights-based Divino Niño Daycare Center, who has been charged with murder and other drug trafficking offenses following the fatal fentanyl poisoning of one-year-old Nicholas Dominicus at the center on Sept. 15, has been charged with drug trafficking resulting in death in connection with the incident. Three other infants were also poisoned during the same incident but are recovering, as reported.

UPDATE Kingsbridge Heights: 40+ Pounds of Fentanyl Seized Six Blocks from Bronx Daycare Center Where Infants OD’d  

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Federal law enforcement authorities announced Thursday, Sept. 28, that as part of the ongoing investigation into fentanyl trafficking in New York City, federal, state, and local law enforcement officers recovered over 40 pounds of suspected fentanyl, carrying an estimated street value of $1.5 million in The Bronx on Tuesday evening, Sept. 26. They said the latest seizure took place six blocks away from Divino Niño Daycare Center at 2707 Morris Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, where one-year old Nicholas Dominici experienced fentanyl exposure and later died on Friday, Sept. 15. Three other infants were also hospitalized as a result of being exposed to fentanyl at the same daycare center and are now recovering, as reported.

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center Awarded Coveted Designation by National Cancer Institute

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The newly renamed Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC) has been awarded a comprehensive and coveted designation by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health. MECCC officials said the award is the ultimate standard achieved by only 55 other NCI cancer centers in the U.S.   MECCC officials said that through NCI’s peer-review process, it was nationally recognized for what was described as “its paradigm-shifting, practice-changing, policy-impacting cancer-focused science.” They said as a result, MECCC was awarded a five-year, $20 million cancer center support grant to advance what they said was the translation of novel cancer


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Bedford Park: Police Appeal to Public for Help Locating 16-Year-Old Girl Reported Missing

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The NYPD is asking for the public’s help locating a 16-year-old girl from Bedford Park, reported missing on Saturday, Sept. 23.   Police said Madison Miranda of 2871 Webster Avenue, The Bronx was last seen leaving her home on Saturday, Sept. 23, at around 11 a.m. They said she is described as being around 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighs 118 pounds, and has brown hair, braids and brown eyes. They said she was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt and tan khaki pants.   Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline


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No D Train Service during upcoming Weekends between 161st St.-Yankee Stadium and Norwood-205th St.

By SÍLE MOLONEY
MTA officials have advised that due to more needed maintenance work, there will be no D train service operating between the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium subway station and the Norwood-205th Street station during the following weekends: Friday, Sept. 29, from 11.30 p.m. through Monday, Oct. 2, at 5 a.m. The D service will run between Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue and 161st Street-Yankee Stadium, the last stop. Free D90 shuttle buses will run between Mosholu Parkway subway station serving the 4 train and the Norwood-205th Street station serving the D train.   Travel Alternatives For service between 161st Street-Yankee Stadium and Bedford Park Boulevard,


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