First responders in a Massachusetts city had to exercise some impromptu roundup skills when eight bulls escaped from a rodeo being held in the parking lot of a mall on Sunday. Video posted online captured the moment when the bulls …
Florida’s Big Bend region on the northern Gulf Coast is bracing for yet another hurricane, the third in the last 13 months. Wind speeds for what could soon be Hurricane Helene are forecast to reach up to 115 mph, higher …
It was just another overnight shift for Damon Davis, a road construction inspector who was supervising repairs on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge — until the deck beneath his feet started crumbling. He ran for his life and, miraculously, made …
A dozen Tufts University men’s lacrosse players have been diagnosed with a rare muscle injury after participating in a voluntary, supervised 45-minute workout that the team conducted, a university spokesperson said Friday. Five of the players who have been diagnosed …
Elon Musk lost a legal fight over unpaid severance to a former Twitter employee who was laid off when he took over the social media platform in 2022, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The resolution of the …
Hurricane John hit Mexico’s southern Pacific coast late on Monday as a major category 3 storm, with authorities warning residents to protect themselves against potentially deadly storm surges and torrential rain. The storm, packing maximum sustained winds of 120 mph …
Austria’s national railways will need months to restore the country’s busiest train line after catastrophic floods wrecked infrastructure, throttling the capacity to move people and goods. Commuters and supply chains will need to adapt after record rainfall damaged tracks, tunnels …
Six British water companies under-reported sewage discharges and overcharged millions of customers up to 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion) as a result, lawyers bringing a landmark lawsuit told a London tribunal on Monday. The utilities companies, including Britain’s largest water …
The soaring cost and difficulty of insuring against climate risks may force people to relocate, the head of Canada’s main financial regulator warned. Rising damages from extreme weather don’t seem to be a regulatory problem, but rather a cost problem, …
When Iowa mutual GuideOne Insurance began assessing ways to add an infusion of capital to strengthen its balance sheet, the company went to the usual places a mutual of its size might turn to for financial backing. “We were working …
