ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, March 24 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Deidre Moon, AEDC Public Affairs Arnold Engineering Development Complex team members were recently granted funding for their innovative ideas as part of the 2023 AEDC Spark Tank. An announcement was made in October 2022 calling all innovators to submit their ideas, and the last day for submissions was Jan.13. The AEDC Spark Tank program allows members of the AEDC workforce to propose sugg  more

ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, March 23 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: Arnold Engineering Development Complex senior leadership announced the complex-level winners for the Air Force Materiel Command Science, Engineering and Technical Management Awards on March 15. Nomination packages are evaluated in three areas: operational impact, innovative improvements and customer focus. Unit listed is for the unit on the nomination. * Junior Military Scientist/Engineer:   more

MORRISTOWN, Tennessee, March 23 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: * * * Faris Enterprises of TN LLC illegally assigned teen to manually operate a deep fryer * * * A U.S. Department of Labor child labor investigation has found that the operator of a McDonald's franchise location in Morristown assigned a 15-year-old employee - who suffered hot oil burns while using a deep fryer - to perform tasks considered hazardous for young workers. I  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: Cleanup projects for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) can be challenging under normal circumstances, but a recent excavation effort involved another level of complexity for contractor UCOR. Unable to access a hard-to-reach cleanup area by land, crews performed the work from a nearby barge on Poplar Creek at the East Tennessee T  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 21 (TNStalk) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following agency statement on March 20, 2023: * * * In our March episode, we talk with personnel at Y-12 to learn how they share information during potential emergency events. They walk us through what happened during last month's fire. We highlight a project where crews are climbing 250 feet to conduct inspections, and we see Oak Ridge's inventory of radioactiv  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 25 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The old photos show her casually writing data in a logbook with stacks of lead bricks nearby, or sealing a vacuum chamber with a wrench. ORNL researcher Frances Pleasonton was instrumental in some of the earliest explorations of the properties of the neutron as the X-10 Site was finding its postwar footing as a research lab. In 1950 then-Physics Division D  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: On March 7, a federal grand jury in Austin returned an indictment, unsealed today, charging seven individuals with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and other crimes arising out of their scheme to defraud the IRS using stolen identities. According to the indictment, from 2018 through 2021, Abraham Yusuff, of Round Rock, Meghan Inyang, of San Antonio, Christopher Eduardo, of Round Rock, Christian Ma  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned an indictment on March 8, charging a Tennessee man with sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. The indictment further charged that the defendant conspired with a Kentucky woman to commit that crime. According to the indictment, between Aug. 8 and 11, 2022, Portier Q. Govan, 36, of Memphis, Tennessee, used force, threats of force and coercion to   more

ALGOOD, Tennessee, March 21 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: * * * Recovers $42K for 44 workers, assesses Red Oak Roasters $9K penalty for child labor violations * * * The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $42,373 for 44 employees after finding an Algood restaurant illegally kept tips that employees earned. The department's Wage and Hour Division found McCurdy Enterprises LLC - operating as Red Oak Roasters - withheld the tips an  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, March 23 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release on March 22, 2023: Stuart Pinkham, 33, of Southaven, Mississippi, who was wanted out of Shelby County and Southaven, MS, on multiple violent crime arrest warrants was captured yesterday by U.S. Marshals in Memphis. U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller, Western District of Tennessee, announced today. Pinkham was wanted in Shelby County for Second Degree Murder, Criminal Attempt First   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Rigid foam boards used to insulate buildings can prevent energy loss, making homes more efficient at keeping warm or cool. The advantages in energy efficiency, however, are undercut by environmental concerns over polystyrene products. Blowing agents used in foam production, such as hydrocarbons and hydrofluoroolefins, end up in the atmosphere and contribute to globa  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 21 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have identified specific proteins and amino acids that could control bioenergy plants' ability to identify beneficial microbes that can enhance plant growth and storage of carbon in soils. These proteins, called LysM receptor-like kinases, regulate signaling between plants and microbes, a process that influences bi  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 23 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Following months of promising test results, battery researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are recommending that the solid-state battery industry focus on a technique known as isostatic pressing as it looks to commercialize next-generation batteries. Commercial-scale production of solid-state batteries is a goal for electri  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 20, 2023: Stephen Dahunsi's desire to see more countries safely deploy nuclear energy is personal. Growing up in Nigeria, he routinely witnessed prolonged electricity blackouts as a result of unreliable energy supplies. It's a problem he hopes future generations won't have to experience. "I have always been fascinated with technologies and how things work a  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory is teaming with the National Energy Technology Laboratory to jointly explore a range of technology innovations for carbon management and strategies for economic development and sustainable energy transitions in the Appalachian region. ORNL Deputy for Science and Technology Susan S. Hubbard, Ph.D., and NETL Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, March 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Access to artificial intelligence and machine learning is rapidly changing technology and product development, leading to more advanced, efficient and personalized applications by leveraging a massive amount of data. However, the same abilities also are in the hands of bad actors, who use AI to create malware that evades detection by the algorithms widely employed   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, March 24 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release on March 23, 2023: Rashid James-Wooten, 29, formerly of Florida, has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. United States Attorney Kevin R. Ritz announced the sentence today. According to United States Attorney Ritz and information presented in court, on September 8, 2021, detectives with the Memphis   more

MCALLEN, Texas, March 21 -- U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, Alamdar S. Hamdani, issued the following news release on March 20, 2023: Three individuals have been sent to prison for conspiracy to import heroin and fentanyl into the United States from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Elias Herrera, 31, Liz Jomayra Diaz-Colon, 23, and Jonathan Guemez, 30, all previously pleaded guilty and admitted they admitted they had conspired together to import the drugs in  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on March 23, 2023: * * * Congressional Republicans' Plans To Gut Medicaid and the ACA Would Have Devastating Consequences in Tennessee Congressional Republicans' have yet to release a budget, but the plans that have been offered and reported so far are a five-alarm fire for American families - especially when it comes to their health care costs. Not only has virtually every Republican budget or fiscal plan over   more