Artmeis Announces Partnership With Louisiana’s Ozark

The U.S. Department of Energy said on Monday it has disbursed $57 million of an up to $1.52 billion loan guarantee for Holtec’s Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan, which the company hopes will be the first U.S. commercial reactor to restart after ceasing operations. The loan guarantee was part of an effort by the administration…

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Krystena Murray became pregnant after undergoing in vitro fertilization two years ago, and said she was unaware until she gave birth that the fertility clinic had made a fateful mistake. In December 2023, Murray delivered a healthy baby boy. But she also knew immediately that it didn’t develop from one of…

Heavy rain, severe thunderstorms and the risk of tornadoes are threatening more than 40 million people from Michigan to Texas as a slow-moving cold front hovers over the region. There’s a rare high risk for damaging winds and long-lasting powerful tornadoes to break out in a smaller area from southern Illinois to northeastern Arkansas Wednesday,…

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the lakes. Built to break speed records, the 300-foot (91-meter) freighter dubbed “the inland greyhound” by newspapers was supposed…

NormanMax Insurance Holdings, the Miami-based provider of parametric re/insurance solutions, has agreed to acquire FloodFlash, the parametric flood managing general agent, subject to regulatory approval. London-headquartered FloodFlash will continue to operate as an MGA and Lloyd’s coverholder, and the FloodFlash product will continue to be available to distributors and customers in the US, UK and…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Seven men from Chile have been charged in Florida federal court with orchestrating burglaries at the homes of prominent professional athletes around the country, according to a criminal complaint. The FBI complaint doesn’t name the athletes, but lists burglaries already made public involving the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and…