Bronx News Roundup, March 10

Another sunny day in the Bronx, another day of Bronx News:

A touch of Cuba is now in the Bronx at a new Botanical Garden exhibit.

No more snow fights for the four Bronx teenagers who are facing a year in jail for hitting a transit police officer with a snowball.

Acting New York State Police Superintendent Pedro Perez resigns as well. He was a replacement for Harry Corbitt who resigned amid allegations in the Patterson scandal.

Assemblyman Peter Rivera may be eying the position of County leader.

Turns out "The Hurt Locker"'s Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal is a Bronx High School of Science alumnus.

Yankee Stadium announces that it will host the newest postseason college football game, the New Era Pinstripe Bowl in December.

Christian relief group World Vision has a storehouse in Port Morris that provides all types of supplies for those who work with the poor.

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Modern technology - and a MetroCard - has freed a murder suspect who was charged with killing a man in Highbridge back in May.

Business is booming in Port Morris, one of the city's few remaining industrial enclaves.

The Fordham Rams take on the Lady Jaspers (Manhattan College) tonight in women's basketball. You can listen to it live on WFUV-FM 90.7. The Rams will be trying to avoid their 36th consecutive defeat.

Assemblymen Jose Rivera and Carl Heastie may be bitter rivals (both claim to lead the Bronx Democratic Party), but their relationship remains cordial.

A travel blog has discovered Arthur Avenue.

Pedro Espada, not yet a state senator, is bidding to be the next Senate Majority Leader, according to El Diario/La Prensa. (You can't fault him for ambition.)

Still on Espada, the Daily News reports that he raked in thousands of dollars from top Republicans - funds that helped him defeat long-time incumbent Efrain Gonzalez in September's Democratic primary.

At a ceremony today, the Triborough Bridge will be officially renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge.

Bronx-born Eric H. Holder, currently a senior legal adviser to Barack Obama, is being tapped as the next US attorney general. He would the first African-American to hold the position.