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Second holdup for longtime candy shop proprietor The New York City Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating and identifying the following suspect who is wanted in connection with the gunpoint robbery of a candy store.

Children and longtime residents dart into the narrow, cluttered candy store in Bedford Park to grab sweets, papers, or lottery tickets. Sometimes they’ll sit on one of the spinning red stools and belly up to the counter for a cup of Joe.

The proprietor is a demure and kindly Asian woman who has run the shop for 22 years, and twice she has had a gun thrust in her face.

Since the last holdup, on Jan. 5, the store owner remains shaken, fearful that the thief might return.

“I was so scared,” said the woman, who didn’t want her name or that of the store printed.

On Tuesday police released a video of a man they suspect of the crime. He is Hispanic, 5’5” to 5’7” and about 150 lbs., shown walking back and forth in front of an apartment building in the area.

The shopkeeper recounted the details of the robbery.

Shortly before 3 p.m. a swarm of children had just left the tiny place with red awning on Bedford Park Blvd. near Valentine Ave. Her husband was in the shop’s back room.

Suddenly a masked man with his sweatshirt hood pulled over his head moved toward her at the cash register, brandishing a pistol.

“Open,” the man said to her quietly. “Money.”

He ran out with the drawer’s contents, about $400 in small bills.

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Huihui Fan and Mimi Yen of Stuyvesant High School and Danielle Goldman of Bronx Science in the run for 100G prize

Danielle Goldman of Bronx High School of Science advanced to the finals of Intel Science contest with her study of how to better diagnose anxiety and depression in youngsters.

THE CITY’S back in it.

After getting shut out of the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search last year, city students snagged three finalist spots.

The trio of brainiacs were modest about their honor in the competition known as the junior Nobel Prize.

“I was really, really surprised. I think I screamed, but I’m not really sure,” said Stuyvesant High School senior Huihui Fan, 17, of Staten Island, who plans to study molecular biology at Harvard University and hopes to become a doctor.

“My parents were really excited, too.”

Fan, who also is captain of the debate team and principal of the cello section in the school orchestra, used genetics to try to solve agricultural land shortages.

Her Stuyvesant classmate, Mimi Yen, 17, of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, studied evolution through the behavior of microscopic worms, dedicating two summers and 20 hours a week for two years to her research.

She wasn’t even sure that science was her passion when she entered high school.

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Law enforcement sources tell NY1 a one-year-old boy with several wounds was found dead inside a Bronx apartment Wednesday.

 The New York City Police Department says officers found the toddler, Richard Flood, unconscious and unresponsive on the living room floor of an apartment located at 667 East 232nd Street just before noon Wednesday.

 The boy was taken to Montefiore Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

 Law enforcement sources say Richard had a cigarette burn on each arm and a leg is a cast.

 Sources tell NY1 that the infant’s mother left him with her boyfriend, who says Richard fell.

 Law enforcement sources say the boyfriend is now being questioned in the 47th precinct stationhouse, and that the man is not Richard’s father.

 According to the Administration for Children’s Services, no other children lived in the toddler’s household.

 Neighbors were obviously concerned.

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Carrion doesn’t rule out run for Mayor or Controller

Adolfo Carrion, Jr.

Adolfo Carrion Jr. is “not done” with the rough-and-tumble of New York politics and may pursue citywide office in 2013, he told the Daily News this week.

The ex-Bronx Borough President, who stepped down in February 2009 to become Urban Affairs czar under President Obama, will resign from his current U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development post next month to launch a consulting firm and prepare for a political comeback.

Carrion refused to lay bare his ambitions, citing the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from playing politics. But the longtime Bronx Democrat didn’t rule out a run for mayor or controller in 2013.

The City Island resident still boasts a $1.2 million campaign war chest left over from his short-lived 2009 bid for controller.

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 Invaluable religious items stolen from Temple Beth-El

 BOB BERENT

Temple Beth-El worshipers dance with silver Torah scrolls that were stolen Jan. 13.

 Police are investigating burglaries at two houses of worship in the 45th Precinct that have left religious leaders and their congregations feeling shaken and violated.

 Temple Beth-El in City Island and Zoodohos Peghe Greek Orthodox Church in Pelham Bay were trashed and raided in a recent spate of attacks, within a week of each other.

 Temple Beth-El in was left in disarray after the City Island synagogue was burglarized Jan. 13.

  “It’s a sad comment on our society,” said Rabbi Shohama Wiener of Temple Beth-El. She also referred to a recent firebomb attack on a New Jersey synagogue.

 “It’s always sad when people break into other people’s homes,” she said, “but when people are willing to break into churches and synagogues and mosques, it’s disheartening, to say the least.”

 When Wiener arrived a half hour early for services at the multicultural “Shul by the Sea” on Jan. 13, instead of worshipers, she found police - and the entire sanctuary littered with candlesticks and Shabbat books.

 Windows were smashed, doors were broken and silver crowns that adorned Holocaust-era Torah scrolls were missing, along with silver Kiddush cups.

 “They were obviously looking for valuables,” Wiener said. “They tried to take the sound system, but they didn’t succeed. The amp was in the middle of the floor.”

 In all, about $5,000 to $10,000 worth of items were stolen, the rabbi said.

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