Bronx News Roundup, September 9

Yesterday, after multiple failed negotiations over the past year, Lance Inc., a food company, bought the Stella D'Oro brand. Lance Inc. plans on moving Stella D'Oro cookie production to a plant in Ohio from the local Bronx plant in Kingsbridge.

Unfortunately for workers at the Kingsbridge plant, the purchase of Stella D'Oro ends their year-long strike against the brand's previous owner, Brynwood Partners, and they are now without jobs. Read the Norwood News article about the strike here.

Police reports show that two Bronx narcotics police officers did not investigate a tip-off about a reported drug den in Parkchester. After the officer's failure to investigate the tip, a man was fatally shot outside of the supposed drug den.

The family of Verda Henry, a life-long Bronx resident, is suing a New Rochelle nursing home for neglecting to provide adequate care and not properly treating an infected bedsore that led to Henry's death in 2007.

Yesterday, the trial began for a Bronx man, Tryone Simmons, accused of invading a Yonkers home and raping a woman in 2007. The trial is currently taking place at the state Supreme Court in White Plains. Simmons faces a sentence of eight years in prison for his crime.

Bronx News Roundup Nov. 24

It was a chilly weekend for most but nearly 40 people were left in the cold after a blazing fire at 6:45 p.m. on Sunday consumed an apartment building and several homes in the Longwood section of the Bronx. It began on the first floor of 952 Rogers Place and quickly spread.

The Young Women's Leadership School is also being given the cold shoulder, losing support from the Young Women's Leadership Foundation and being forced to change its name because it relocated to a co-ed school building. It has been shuffled around from one location to the next for the last four years.

On another note, the trial for "Soprano" actor, Lillo Brancato, begins today. He is accused of being involved in the murder of a Bronx off-duty officer. Last Friday, a Bronx judge refused to toss out potentially incriminating evidence against Brancato.

Some good news. Former South Bronxite, Patrick Alvarez, who grew up in various homeless shelters around the city is now a freshman at Syracuse University, preparing for the Thanksgiving holiday by giving back with a non-profit he founded, Project Feed Me. He will be holding the organization's first major event today, handing out turkeys to the hungry at the Children's Aid Society on West 118th.

And for some breaking news! The Bronx is no longer just a borough. It's now also the name of Ashlee Simpson's newborn, Bronx Mowgli. To be fair, a teacher in Alabama was the first to don the name but her parents weren't celebs. Apparently, the story was so important it needed to be covered not once but twice by the New York Times.