A fire in a commercial plaza in Thomaston, Connecticut damaged five businesses including a popular restaurant, Patti’s Place. Firefighters battled the building fire on Park Street late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. “Crews started with an aggressive interior attack, …
The MEMIC Group, headquartered in Portland, Maine, hired Matt Coy as chief information officer (CIO), succeeding Jack Yao, who retired at the end of 2025 after more than nine years of service. Coy leads MEMIC’s technology strategy, rejoining MEMIC after …
The United States is handing over to Venezuela a tanker that it seized this month, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday. The United States has been carrying out a months-long effort to seize oil tankers linked to Venezuela – …
A federal judge has allowed the manager of the cargo ship Dali involved in the tragic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March 2024 to proceed for now with its claims under an 1851 maritime law that limits …
The US Marshals Service, which provides custody of cryptocurrencies seized by or forfeited to federal law enforcement agencies, said it’s investigating a possible hack of US government digital-asset accounts. “At this time, we will not be making any statement as …
Residents in a iced-over swath of Mississippi began to confront the ugly truth Monday as they shivered in ever-colder and darkened houses: Recovery from the state’s worst ice storm in more than 30 years could take a week or more. …
A California seafood is paying $248,000 to resolve allegations it sold frozen seafood products with elevated levels of lead and cadmium without the required warnings. California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office settled with Pacific American Fish Company Inc., a seafood …
Six people were killed in a single plane crash Sunday night at Bangor International Airport in Maine, according to local officials, correcting what appears to have been a report from the federal government that seven people died. A late Monday …
Nvidia Corp. is offering new open-source software and models designed to help governments and businesses more easily use artificial intelligence and complex data to build their own weather forecasting systems. The chipmaker’s new Earth-2 platform includes a pair of AI-based …
Preston Insurance Agency, a full-service independent insurance agency with six locations across Illinois, announced a strategic partnership with Ansay & Associates, one of the nation’s largest family-owned independent insurance agencies. This partnership marks Ansay & Associates’ expansion into the Illinois …