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U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has said infrastructure is one area where he and his fellow Democrats might find common ground with President Donald Trump and Republicans. But Brown said details about the president's infrastructure effort is giving him pause.

by Julie Grant, Allegheny Front Natural gas and brine water continue to pour uncontrollably from a well pad in Belmont County, near Powhatan Point, after an explosion and fire at the site Thursday morning. No one was injured when workers lost control at a well pad owned by Exxon’s XTO Energy near the Ohio River. Nearby residents reported hearing the explosion, and the low rumbling sounds of the fire. About 100 were told to evacuate their homes.

Gubernatorial hopeful Dennis Kucinich is calling for cities across Ohio to lobby state lawmakers to ban assault rifles. The former Ohio congressman says public opinion about high-powered weapons is at a tipping point. Supporters from across Ohio crowded into a hotel meeting room in downtown Cleveland bearing signs and chanting their support for Kucinich's plan to lobby the state legislature for a change in Ohio's gun laws.

The Ohio EPA today turned to the Ohio Attorney General’s office over $2.3 million in civil penalties levied against the owners of the Rover pipeline. From member station WKSU, Jeff St.Clair has more. Ohio EPA director Craig Butler says he had no choice but to bring-in the state attorney’s office to force a settlement with Energy Transfer Partners, and other owners of the Rover pipeline over civil penalties.

Both of Ohio’s U.S. Senators expressed surprise at President Trump’s announcement today that he will bar transgender people from serving in the military. From member station WKSU, M.L. Schultze reports. Trump made his surprise declaration in a series of Twitter posts, saying the military can’t afford what he claimed are the “tremendous medical costs and disruption” that comes with transgender people. Democrat Sherrod Brown called that ungrounded.

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Ohio and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have settled a lawsuit over dredging in the Cuyahoga River. The state and the federal agency have fought for years over how to handle sediment scooped from the river. The Army Corps wanted to dump it into Lake Erie, but the state said that was unsafe. Under the settlement, the Army Corps will bear the cost of disposing of sediment dredged in 2016 and 2017. That material was placed in confined disposal facilities, not in the lake. The settlement was filed Wednesday in federal court in Cleveland.

The city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County plan to help finance a new apartment and retail project in the Ohio City neighborhood. The plan is to build two apartment buildings on what’s now a pair of parking lots between West 28th and West 29th streets along Detroit Avenue. There are plans for a pharmacy, hardware store or other retail on the ground level. The buildings will house about 160 units total in what’s been dubbed the city’s Hingetown area.

University of Akron President Matthew Wilson will step down from the position after two years leading the university. According to a press release issued Thursday, Wilson will return to his role on the faculty of the UA School of Law on July 31. Chair of the University Board of Trustees Roland Bauer said the board will meet with representatives of the university community “in the very near future” to name an interim president.

It's time once again for the Cleveland International Film Festival which screens more than 400 films and kicks off next Wednesday night in Playhouse Square. Festival artistic director Bill Guentzler spotlights some of the hot films this year. Opening Night Film: The Drummer and the Keeper