A little more than a month after four young men were shot outside of Tracey Towers (two suspects from across Mosholu Parkway in the Knox-Gates neighborhood were arrested for the crime), a 38-year-old man was shot in the chest in the woods near the Knox-Gates playground.

The students of the Bronx New School, all 250 of them, want to tell you about a few of their favorite things. Raindrops on roses. Whiskers on kittens. These are just a few of their favorite things. All right, so maybe they’re famous songwriting duo Rodgers and Hammerstein’s favorite things.

Ursula Students Win Awards, Scholarships Awards for Darfur Work At the 34th Annual Eddy Awards, sponsored by Instructional Television (ITV) of the Archdiocese of New York, Mount St. Ursula students took home five awards for their broadcast work on the theme, "The Cries of Darfur."  Wendy Hado ’07, Enuma Igweatu ’07, Shani Ogilivie ’10, Kathleen Chiluiza ’07, Sakia Miller ’09, Sheryl Hado, and Chikaodili Okaneme ’07 formed the news team that won an award for their overall work and individual stories. The team was led by faculty member Joan Sipe. Awards for Latin Thirteen Latin students at Mount St. Ursula

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Norwood’s Young Star Wine and Liquors Store reopened a few weeks ago, way ahead of schedule, with the help of some friends.

The New York Botanical Garden hosts their annual Farmers Market, with fruits and vegetables and home-baked goods from New York State through October.

Dr. Penny Grant tells a horror story about an Oklahoma woman, a mother ravaged by the exhausting effects of crystal methamphetamine addiction, who slept through her baby burning to death.

One species of rose, Cherry Parfait, to see before the end of Rose Month, at the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden of the New York Botanical Garden.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave a commencement address to the U.S. Naval Academy last week. In it, he highlighted and reaffirmed basic principles of our democracy – the importance of Congress, a free press and a nonpolitical military.

Everyone knows about the Curse of the Bambino – the legend that holds that the Boston Red Sox went 86 years without winning the World Series because they had sold the great Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920. The Yankees, of course, went on to become the greatest franchise in sports history.