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A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year is scheduled to expire July 31, after the Biden administration extended the date by a month. The state of Ohio never enacted its own eviction moratorium and is following the federal moratorium.

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss the rise in COVID cases due to the Delta variant and the FirstEnergy settlement to avoid prosecution in the nuclear bailout scandal.

The City of Columbus announced Thursday morning it is funding for two crime-prevention initiatives run by Franklin County.

Columbus City Schools announced Thursday it will require face masks in school and on buses at the start of next school year.

FirstEnergy will pay $230 million after entering into a deferred prosecution agreement over charges that bribed then-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former Public Utilities of Ohio Commission chair Sam Randazzo.

Ten prisons workers are named in an investigation into the beating and subsequent death of an inmate at the Correctional Reception Center in Pickaway County in February. Two have quit and eight are facing disciplinary action, and the incident has led to some changes throughout the system.

Ohio is one of several states that will share $26 billion dollars as part of a national opioid abuse settlement.

A feisty and proud president came to Cincinnati Wednesday to mark the six-month anniversary of his taking office with a frank talk on a myriad of difficult issues that face him.

Before President Joe Biden's plane landed in Kentucky Wednesday afternoon, protesters were already gathered in Delhi, Ohio, waving Trump flags and calling for Biden's impeachment. Among the most important issues to protesters, they said, are abortion, immigration, election fraud and taxes.

Even with bipartisan support to reduce Ohio's prison population, state lawmakers are increasing the number of felonies and penalties defendants face.