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Imagine stepping into a small room filled from floor to ceiling with mirrors and bright polka dots. These spaces, called “Infinity Mirror Rooms,” also generally fit only three people at a time.

Ohio’s two U.S. senators agree premiums will go up if a bipartisan compromise on the Affordable Care Act doesn’t get through Congress. Other than that, though, they don’t agree on much, including whether the compromise should get through Congress. From Ohio Public Radio station, WKSU’s M.L. Schultze reports.

Cleveland saw a sharp increase in rental prices in recent months. That's according to a recent survey by the apartment listing site Abodo.com, which looked at one-bedroom rentals in about 80 cities. The site found that Cleveland topped the list with the highest percentage increase in median rent last month at 6.5 percent. That marks the third consecutive month in which Cleveland led the pack.

The Maumee River runs more than 100 miles before emptying into Lake Erie in Ohio. And it carries a lot of the farm runoff that triggers algae blooms. But a new book shows that there’s a lot more to the river. Ryan Schnurr spent a week walking and canoeing the length of the river last summer. He has turned that experience into a book called In the Watershed. It’s part memoir and part lesson on the Maumee’s place in history.

By Phil de Olivera, WKSU The mother of Tanisha Anderson is accusing Cuyahoga County officials of trying to cover up police officers' role in her death in 2014 by blaming it on a heart condition. An autopsy of the county coronor originally ruled Tanisha Anderson's death a homicide. But the attorney general's office ordered another autopsy last year after it was discovered the case file was tainted with statements by the two officers involved in the incident.

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.

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.

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.