Police are hunting for a hit-and-run driver <a href=”http://www.wpix.com/wpix-hit-run,0,3762339.story”>who struck and killed a man</a> on the Cross Bronx Expressway this morning. <br /><br /><a href=”http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2010/09/28/2010-09-28_church_vics_funeral_set.html”>A funeral service will be held Friday</a> for the six members of a Bronx church who died earlier this month when their van crashed on the New York State Thruway. <br /><br /><a href=”http://www.lohud.com/article/20100928/NEWS02/9280327/-1/newsfront/Bronx-motorcyclist-ID-d-as-Taconic-crash-victim”>A Bronx motorcyclist was killed</a> on the Taconic State Parkway on Sunday.<br /><br />Lehman High School’s football team is one of the best in the city, but it can never play at home because its field is <a href=”http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2010/09/28/2010-09-28_the_longest_20_yards_city_falls_short_in_expanding_lehman_highs_80yard_field.html”>20-yards short of the regulation size</a>. <br /><br />In Riverdale last night, a man traveling on a city bus <a href=”http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/09/28/2010-09-28_bus_driver_burned_in_chem_toss.html?r=news”>squirted a mystery chemical</a> into the driver’s face. <br /><br />There were <a href=”http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2010/09/28/2010-09-28_scripts_replace_old_party_elect_brawls.html”>few surprises at last week’s</a> Bronx Democratic County Committee Convention, unlike the 2008 event, where there <a href=”http://www.bronxnewsnetwork.org/2008/09/democratic-committee-meeting-to.html”>were fireworks, so to speak</a>. <br /><br />In 2003, 91-year-old Nelli Hocutt was brutally murdered in her Williamsbridge home.  <a href=”http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/09/28/2010-09-28_da_shows_graphic_images_of_strangulation_oh_god_cries_kin_of_slain_bx_granny_at_.html?r=news”>The trial of one of her accused killers</a> began yesterday in Bronx Supreme Court.<br /><br />Here’s <em>The Times'</em> coverage of the <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/nyregion/28nyc.html”>borough’s new “Peace in Our Streets” initiative</a>, which was officially launched at a church on White Plains Road on Saturday.  We had <a href=”http://www.bronxnewsnetwork.org/2010/09/bronx-leaders-take-to-streets-for-peace.html”>a post</a> about this yesterday. <br /><br />Lawyers defending the four men accused of trying to blow up two Riverdale synagogues are <a href=”http://bronx.ny1.com/content/top_stories/126176/defense-wants-case-against-bronx-bomb-plot-suspects-thrown-out”>asking the judge to throw out the case</a>. The government’s star witness (an FBI informant) lied repeatedly on the stand, the defense claims.<br /><br />The MTA is hoping to speed up traffic on the Henry Hudson Bridge by <a href=”http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/the_bell_will_toll_for_hudson_cash_shYFKOMq0f8EXPB3bxa7vN”>removing toll gates and cash lanes</a>. This doesn’t mean the bridge will be free.  The new lanes will either be E-ZPass or set up for video tolling, with a camera catching a driver’s license plate.<br /><br />The PS 70 teacher who was reassigned after writing about her past as a stripper and prostitute, also <a href=”http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/28/2010-09-28_bronx_hooker_teacher_blabs_on_about_past.html”>talked about her exploits at open-mic events</a>.