Good afternoon, and welcome back to the work week. It’ll be cloudy and in the low 50s this Monday. Here are a few local news stories we’re following on Breaking Bronx today:

A woman was arrested this weekend on animal cruelty charges for allegedly starving her two pit bulls, which were removed from a Webster Avenue apartment building by the American Society for the Prevention for Cruelty to Animal (ASPCA) back in December weighing a mere 16.4 and 15.2 pounds. Gillian Irving, 27, could face up to two years in prison if convicted.

A baby born nearly four months premature, and weighing just over a pound, is heading home from St. Barnabas hospital this week. Staff at the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit called baby Daniel Annan a “miracle” and planned him a goodbye party.

A fire that broke out in a Marble Hill apartment building Friday afternoon killed Juan Lizardo, 47,  and his wife Marilyn Brito, 46. The couple had three foster children, who survived the tragedy.

The corruption trial of former Bronx State Sen. Pedro Espada, Jr., continues, and the New York Post takes a look at the defendant’s dining habits, as detailed by federal prosecutors who charge that Espada billed $103,000 to his taxpayer-funded nonprofit health clinic for meals which appear to be non-business related. Espada spent thousands of dollars at a number of restaurants in Westchester, where he was believed to have lived despite claiming to reside in his Bronx district, as required by law.