WASHINGTON, June 3 -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued the following news release: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) announced a settlement with Main Street Personal Finance, Inc. and its subsidiaries--ACAC, Inc., which conducts business under the name Approved Cash Advance, and Quik Lend, Inc.--(collectively, Approved Cash). The companies, which are based in Cleveland, Tennessee, offer payday and auto-title loans and own and operate about 156 stores in eight diff  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has authorized the start of installation construction of the Calciner Project at the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The project is part of NNSA's strategy to modernize enriched uranium capabilities and infrastructure. NNSA is installing a rotary calciner in  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Matthew R. Ryder, a researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named the 2020 Foresight Fellow in Molecular-Scale Engineering. The fellowship was awarded by the Foresight Institute, a research nonprofit focused on promoting nanotechnology and emerging technologies. The Foresight Fellowship (https://foresight.org/fellowship-class-  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A multi-institutional research team found that changing environmental conditions are affecting forests around the globe, leading to increasing tree death and uncertainty about the ability of forests to recover. Increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, temperature, drought and extreme events such as wildfires are causing more frequent tree mortality and triggering int  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: ITER, the world's largest international scientific collaboration, is beginning assembly of the fusion reactor tokamak that will include 12 different essential hardware systems provided by US ITER, which is managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The systems include superconductors for the toroidal field magnet system and ORNL-developed pellet injection technology f  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have discovered a better way to separate actinium-227, a rare isotope essential for an FDA-approved cancer treatment. To produce Ac-227, researchers recover radium-226 from obsolete medical devices and fabricate it into targets that are irradiated in the High Flux Isotope Reactor. Ac-227 is then separated from the targets and  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on June 4: Temperatures hotter than the center of the sun. Magnetic fields hundreds of thousands of times stronger than the earth's. Neutrons energetic enough to change the structure of a material entirely. These are not the conditions on a faraway planet or deep inside the earth's core--they're the normal demands inside a fusion reactor. This extreme environment puts  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists have found a new method to strategically add deuterium to benzene, an aromatic compound commonly found in crude oil. When applied to the active ingredient of drugs to incorporate deuterium, it could dramatically improve the drugs' efficacy and safety and even introduce new medicines. To validate the method, which was published (https://www.nature.com/artic  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, May 27 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis issued the following news release: The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis released its portion of the Federal Reserve's latest Beige Book, published. The local report summarizes economic conditions for the Eighth District, which is based in St. Louis and covers all of Arkansas and parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. The St. Louis Fed's Beige Book is available at https://research.stlouisfe  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 2 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, J. Douglas Overbey, issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee announced that the City of East Ridge received $35,403 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19. The grant is available under the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program, authorized by the recent stimulus   more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, J. Douglas Overbey, issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee announced that the City of Chattanooga received $374,730 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19. The grant is available under the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program, authorized by the recent stimulu  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 6 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, J. Douglas Overbey, issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee announced that Hamblen County received $58,008 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19. The grant is available under the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program, authorized by the recent stimulus legislat  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 2 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, D. Michael Dunavant, issued the following news release: The Department of Justice today announced nearly $400 million in grant funding through the Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The Attorney General announced funding awards to 596 law enforcement agencies across the nation, which allows those agencies to hire 2,732 additional full-time law   more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 4 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, J. Douglas Overbey, issued the following news release: The Department of Justice announced nearly $400 million in grant funding through the Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The Attorney General announced funding awards to 596 law enforcement agencies across the nation, which allows those agencies to hire 2,732 additional full-time law enfor  more