For the past few days, the Bronx Zoo has been running a poll to come up with a name for the cobra that went missing from the reptile exhibit and was found, still in the reptile exhibit, alive and well. Voters have spoken, and the snake will be called "Mia." Charming.

Here's a recent news report by Joe Torres of New York's WABC regarding some unsolved robberies in the Bronx's Bedford Park neighborhood. But wait! Just as Torres finishes, a random woman in the background takes quite a tumble. Watch inside.

A beaver found living in the Bronx River has, after a contest, been named Justin Beaver, an homage to Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber. And thus marks the last time Bieber will ever be associated with anything beaver-related. [NYP]

Four men arrested last year for planting bombs outside Bronx synagogues and threatening to fire missiles at military planes were convicted today.

There are plenty of believable excuses for missing work, but pulling out the not-actually-dead dead relative story is always a bad idea. It worked at first for one Bronx school staffer, until she was spotted bowling with her "dead" mom.

CBS News brought in a helicopter to get footage of these two poor little guys. How they got into the Bronx is anyone's guess, but it was a nice choice because the Brooklyn Target is always packed.

The Projects are not the greatest places to live. Now, thanks to Manhattan-based perfume company International Flavors & Fragrances, they are much worse: The company is flooding a South Bronx public housing project with perfume. To make residents happy!

Oh, good. It just doesn't feel like New York these days unless there's a political fight going on about a stadium. The Post reports today: