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Satellite images show the amount of green vegetation on Earth increasing, despite deforestation. But some of the added greenery has a downside.

A Northeast Ohio judge says it’s not the right time to talk about consolidating the roughly dozen municipal court systems in Cuyahoga County. The idea of fusing the county’s 13 separate municipal courts has circulated for years, and two common pleas judges floated the notion anew in a story this week in Cleveland.com.

State lawmakers have sent to Gov. Mike DeWine a bill that would replace the A-F grades on report cards for Ohio’s more than 600 school districts with a new rating system. DeWine has hinted he will sign the bill, the second major overhaul for the school report cards in less than a decade.

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice accepted Mayor Andrew Ginther's invitation to conduct a review of the Columbus Division of Police. But one local activist group doesn't think it's the right move.

"People are getting furious and people are ready to kill Russians," Volodymyr Omelyan told NPR on Wednesday. "Even civilians which never took any kind of gun in their hands."

Russia's ruble collapsed on Monday as sanctions hit, forcing President Vladimir Putin to hold an emergency meeting with his economic advisers.

Oil surged past triple-digit prices for the first time since 2014. The breach of the psychologically significant milestone is bound to reinforce fears about inflation.

"People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity!" the president tweeted. The port city's deputy mayor also said Russia's military had violated a cease-fire meant to allow civilians to evacuate.

As the war in Ukraine goes on, experts worry about its ripple effect on the global food system. Right now, wheat prices hit a 14-year-high. That’s prompting Ohio farmers to plant more wheat this year.

Thomas Barrack, who chaired the former president's inauguration committee, has been arrested on federal charges that he acted as an agent of a foreign government.