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Bronx News Roundup, Feb. 13 (Happy Valentine’s Day!)

We’ll start this Valentine’s Day edition of the Bronx News Roundup off with the cute love story from the Daily Newsabout Bronx couple Annette and Henry Henderson, who have been married for 59 years and will be honored today at the borough president’s Valentine’s Day Luncheon. Annette tells the News: “He holds the door for me, pulls out my chair, helps put my coat on to this day.” Listen up, gentlemen: words to live by.

Before Big Show, H.S. Students Warm Up With a Legend

Melissa Manchester, the Grammy-winning singer who has her name etched into a sign on the Bronx Walk of Fame, walked into a rehearsal hall at Lehman College last Thursday morning, the day before she was to perform at the Grand Central Terminal Centennial Celebration at the iconic Manhattan train station.

Elite Eight in Bronx Borough Playoffs Face-Off Today

The Final Four in the Bronx Borough playoffs will be determined today, as eight of the borough’s best boy’s basketball teams face off in a series of games that should not disappoint. Here’s a brief rundown of the match-ups:

The Bronx Crime Report: Stolen Torahs, a Baby Shower Shooting, Missing Bronxites & Crime Stats

The Bronx Crime Report is a new feature on the Norwood News’ Breaking Bronx blog that will be published Mondays. It will include the latest crime statistics for the 52nd Precinct — Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham-Bedford, and parts of Fordham, University Heights and Kingsbridge Heights — as well as crime updates, stories and features from this precinct and throughout the Bronx.

Bronx News Roundup, Feb. 11

Welcome back to the latest Bronx News Roundup. These are the Bronx stories we’re following today, Monday, Feb. 11.

De Blasio: After ‘Labor in Vineyards,’ Cohen Ready for Council (Video)

On a snowy, sleety, windy Friday morning, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, one of a handful of Democratic mayoral candidates hoping to win over the Riverdale-based Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club, trekked up to the Bronx to endorse Andrew Cohen, the club’s favored candidate to fill Oliver Koppell’s soon-to-be-vacant District 11 Council seat, which includes Norwood, Bedford Park, Riverdale, Woodlawn, and much of Kingsbridge.