OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news release: As senior assessment and evaluation portfolio manager with the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Erin Burr, Ph.D., studies the effectiveness of STEM workforce development programs administered by ORISE. Burr honed her skills in program evaluation as a postdoctoral fellow with ORAU, which manages ORISE for the U.S. Department of E  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Following a four-day trial, a federal jury awarded $70,500 in damages to six women who rented homes in Lexington, Tennessee, from defendant Chad David Ables. The jury found that Ables sexually harassed these women at his properties, located in or near his trailer park known as Pop's Cove, in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The Justice Department's lawsuit, filed in December 2018, alleged that since 2012  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued the following news release: The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that Tennessee received its first "Internet for All" grants for deploying high-speed Internet networks and developing digital skills training programs under the Biden-Harris Administration's Internet for All initiative. Tennessee is receiving   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense teamed up to create a series of weld filler materials that could dramatically improve high-strength steel repair in vehicles, bridges and pipelines. This novel weld wire could help revitalize America's aging infrastructures, which in 2021 received a C- grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The invention from D  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are leading a new project to ensure that the fastest supercomputers can keep up with big data from high energy physics research. "For scientific big data, this is one of the largest challenges in the world," said Marcel Demarteau, director of ORNL's Physics Division and principal investigator of   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The interaction of elemental iron with the vast stores of carbon locked away in Arctic soils is key to how greenhouse gases are emitted during thawing and should be included in models used to predict Earth's climate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists found. Researchers set out to explore and model the chemistry going on as the Arctic permafrost thaws  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) officials reached an important milestone this fall in preparing for a new onsite disposal facility by signing a record of decision with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. The recently signed document allows OREM and its contractor UC  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Dec. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2022: Following a four-day trial, a federal jury awarded $70,500 in damages to six women who rented homes in Lexington, Tennessee, from defendant Chad David Ables. The jury found that Ables sexually harassed these women at his properties, located in or near his trailer park known as Pop's Cove, in violation of the Fair Housing Act. The Justice Depar  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Dec. 17 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Mark H. Wildasin, issued the following news release: The former Cumberland County, Tennessee Solid Waste Director was convicted yesterday of nine counts of civil rights violations, including kidnapping and sexually assaulting women that he supervised. Michael Harvel, 61, of Crossville, Tennessee, was convicted by a federal jury after an eight-day trial, which included testimony from 13 women who testified a  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Dec. 15 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Mark H. Wildasin, issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2022: A federal indictment unsealed today charges Benjamin T. Toh, M.D., 68, of Chicago, Illinois, for his role in a more than $9.5 million health care fraud conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee. Toh was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee on Monday and arrested by federal agents in   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The FBI Memphis Field Office issued the following news release: * * * The FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, graduated 237 law enforcement officers, including five from Tennessee: * Captain Ronald Barrett, Gatlinburg Police Department * Major Kyle Evans, Rutherford County Sheriff's Office * Chief Inspector Chris Golden, Bartlett Police Department * Lieutenant Nicole Somers, Alcoa Police Department * Captain Tim Murray, Lebanon Police Department These offic  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on Dec. 12, 2022: Reinforcing the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to strengthening American manufacturing and our domestic supply chains, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through its Loan Programs Office (LPO), today announced the closing of a $2.5 billion loan to Ultium Cells LLC to help finance the construction of new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan. U  more

JACKSON, Tennessee, Dec. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release on Dec. 14, 2022: A fugitive arrest in Jackson that resulted in two members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force being struck by gunfire is featured in the popular true crime podcast, "Chasing Evil". The episode features the November 2nd, 2020, gunfight and subsequent arrest of Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Most Wanted suspect, Bobby Joe Claybrook, Jr. Claybrook was  more