The creeks around East Palestine, Ohio, were so badly contaminated by last year’s disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment that some workers became sick during the cleanup. Workers who reported headaches and nausea — while shooting compressed air into the creek bed, …
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued an emergency declaration Saturday after severe thunderstorms knocked down power lines in the northwestern part of the state. Storms with strong winds blew through that part of the state …
The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) released a bulletin this month addressing the growing use of artificial intelligence in the insurance industry. The bulletin clarifies DIFS’ expectations and outlines the responsibilities that insurers have when they adopt …
Total reconstruction costs in the U.S. rose by 5.2% from July 2023 to July 2024. That’s a large increase from the cost growth from July 2022 to July 2023 (4.0%) and over the cost growth in the second quarter (1.6%), …
NEW BROCKTON, Ala. (AP) — A 14-year-old football player in Alabama died Tuesday after collapsing during afternoon practice. Semaj Wilkins, a freshman at New Brockton High School, suffered a medical emergency early in practice Tuesday afternoon, Coffee County Coroner Arnold …
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has invited public input as he begins the final phase of approving a “first of its kind” catastrophe modeling and ratemaking regulation that “will help restore options for all Californians and prepare for the reality …
DALLAS (AP) — An attorney for the parents of a Texas student accused of killing 10 people in a 2018 school shooting near Houston told trial jurors Friday that they didn’t know their son would have a psychotic breakdown. Lawyers …
Houston’s Skyward Specialty Insurance Group announced it is launching an aviation program in partnership with Acceleration Aviation Underwriters. The partnership between Skyward Specialty and Acceleration Aviation introduces a robust program that extends coverage to commercial and general aviation aircraft, fixed …
To achieve net-zero emissions, where emissions and removals of greenhouse gas pollution balance each other out, governments and corporations must do two things: cut emissions as much as possible and remove any residual pollution from the atmosphere. To gauge the …
An employee of a rural Kansas school district repeatedly shoved a teenager with Down syndrome into a utility closet, hit the boy and once photographed him locked in a cage used to store athletic equipment, a lawsuit claims. The suit …
