Cleveland Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND -- A Cleveland mother and her boyfriend have been charged with child endangerment, on suspicion of starving the woman's two young boys.

Thirty-three hardy men and women ran into Lake Erie this morning at Edgewater Park to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Michael J. Fox's organization to find a cure for Parkinson's Disease.

While Canton-area reservists get a warm welcome on their return from 10 months in Iraq, another Northeast Ohio family visits the rarely seen battlefield at Iwo Jima. And while one local man mushes his dogs in the Iditarod, five special dogs need a special kind of home.

The way the world deals with human waste . . . or doesn't deal with it . . . can mean the difference between life and death, an author says.

A 39-year-old Glenwillow man was found guilty of murder by a jury Friday afternoon and sentenced to 21-years-to-life in prison.

A Catholic priest who saved his church from closing last year by convincing Bishop Richard Lennon to change his mind, is now publicly challenging the bishop on the closings of other churches.

Elba Ruiz, 49, has been missing from her east side Cleveland home since March 2. She often takes walk through her Broadway neighborhood.

Afternoon headlines from area newspaper and television Web sites.

An Ohio woman who had her 97-year-old mother and 200 animals taken from her filthy home has been prohibited from having pets for five years. Fifty-nine-year-old Kathy Witzman of Gustavus Township in northeast Ohio's Trumbull County was put on probation Thursday on her guilty plea to misdemeanor animal cruelty.

The National Weather Service issued flood warnings for three rovers in Northeast Ohio and urged people to be cautious around the churning waters. The Black River in Carlisle Township and Elyria, the Grand River in Painesville and the Killbuck Creek in Holmes County have exceeded flood levels because of melting snow.