Be Healthy: Reduce Risk for Heart Disease, Manage Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is the single most significant risk factor for heart disease. When your blood pressure stays within healthy ranges, you reduce the strain on your heart, arteries, and kidneys which keeps you healthier longer. Here are some tips to keep your heart healthier.

MS 80 Parents Frustrated With New Principal

The controversial leadership change at JHS 80, commonly known as MS 80 and the area’s largest middle school, is causing serious concerns for parents.

Mayoral Hopefuls Hit the Bronx, Including One Who Wants to Come Clean

Mayoral hopefuls court the Bronx and one of them, John Liu, is trying to clear his name as a trial looms for two of his former campaign fundraisers.

Seeking Safety at Oval Park

Temperatures were below freezing on the morning of Saturday Feb. 2 as Jay Shuffield, a member of local advocacy group Friends of the Oval, showed a reporter around the Williamsbridge Oval Park, Norwood’s most heavily-used open space.

Bronx News Roundup, Feb. 19

Here is a look at your local Bronx news. Miriam Morales, 56, died during a fire in her apartment. Morales, a cancer patient, possibly started the fire, when her cigarette triggered an explosion from an oxygen tank. According to NY1. Police are still investigating. The NY Daily News reported that J.W. Hicks, a suspect in the death of a 5-month-old child, was arrested for assaulting an investigating officer in the Soundview section of the Bronx. Doctors have told police that the baby was shaken to death. The medical examiner has not yet ruled on the case. Freddy Martin, 9, has awaken from a coma after being

The Bronx Crime Report

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. (Right now, we just have stats. We’ll have more stories tomorrow.)

Apartment Fire Kills Bedford Park Woman

At around 7 a.m. this morning, 56-year-old Miriam Morales, a resident of 2977 Bainbridge Ave., in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, died in her apartment after a fire broke out.

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.