NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 8 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Nashville District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is opening Historic Mill Springs Mill May 6-7, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (EDT) each day on the shoreline of Lake Cumberland. The public is invited to learn, participate, and experience stone sharpening activities as Miller John Childers hones the grist stones used throughout the recreation season to grind corn into cornmeal  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following remarks on April 4, 2023, by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke on the 55th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination at the National Civil Rights Museum: * * * The day before his assassination, Dr. King spoke in support of the Sanitation Workers strike that had brought him to Memphis. Implicitly acknowledging the threats on his life, he expressed gratitude that God had allowed him "to go up t  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 6 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 4, 2023: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over $10,897,000 from the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act for states, Tribes, and territories through this year's Clean Water State Revolving Funds (CWSRF) in the state of Tennessee. The funding will help communities upgrade essential wastewater and stormwater systems to protect public health and treasured water bo  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 6 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 4, 2023: * * * Made possible by President Biden's Investing in America Agenda, new funding will help ensure communities have access to clean and safe drinking * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $146,372,000 to Tennessee for essential drinking water infrastructure upgrades through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF). Thanks to a $6 billion boo  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Tennessee to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds and tornadoes from March 31 to April 1, 2023. The President's action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in Cannon, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Lewis, Ma  more

WASHINGTON, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following readout of Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke's trip to Memphis, Tennessee: * * * Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3 and 4 to continue the Civil Rights Division's tour to engage with stakeholders in underserved communities and reaffirm the department's commitment to protecting the civil rights of all Americans. On  more

WASHINGTON, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging a Maryland man for using the telephone to threaten a group that advocates for LGBTQ individuals. According to court documents, on the evening of March 28, the victim organization received a threatening voicemail from a phone number that investigators identified as belonging to Adam Michael Nettina, 34, of West Friendship, Maryland. The message referenced  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 3, 2023: A federal jury convicted a Tennessee nurse practitioner last week for illegally prescribing opioids - including oxycodone and fentanyl - from his medical practice. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Jeffrey Young, 49, of Jackson, used his medical practice, Preventagenix, to illegally prescribe more than one million medically unnecessary controlled substance pills  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 7 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: When virtually unlimited energy from fusion becomes a reality on Earth, Phil Snyder and his team will have had a hand in making it happen. Snyder, a theoretical and computational physicist, was recently appointed Oak Ridge National Laboratory's interim director of the Fusion Energy Division in the Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate. He is an   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on April 3, 2023: Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping modernize power management and enhance reliability in an increasingly complex electric grid. As the United States transitions to cleaner energy and more U.S. consumers adopt electric vehicles, the grid is facing new power flow demands. ORNL researchers are tackling t  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 6 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Michael Parks director of the Computer Science and Mathematics Division within ORNL's Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. His hiring became effective March 13. Parks' responsibilities include directing a team of accomplished scientists in basic and applied research in advanced   more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The White House issued the following news release on April 7, 2023: President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Tennessee and ordered Federal aid to supplement State, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, and tornadoes from March 31 to April 1, 2023. The President's action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in the counties of Cannon, Hardeman, Hardin, H  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- President Biden issued the following statement on April 6, 2023, on the expulsion of Tennessee lawmakers for acting on gun safety: * * * Last week, three more students and three school officials were gunned down in yet another tragic mass shooting in Nashville. On Monday, 7,000 Tennesseans, many of them students, marched to their state capitol to call on their lawmakers to take action and keep them safe. Instead, state Republican lawmakers called votes today to expel th  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 4 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release on April 3, 2023: United States Attorney Kevin G. Ritz announced that the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee has launched a series of presentations in district high schools aimed at educating students on identifying, reporting, and preventing hate crimes and other civil rights violations. This effort is part of the Departmen  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, April 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Francis M. Hamilton III, issued the following news release: On April 7, 2023, Armando Mejia-Almazan, 44, a Mexican National, was sentenced to 292 months in prison by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, Chief United States District Judge, in the United States District Court at Chattanooga. As part of the plea agreement filed with the court, Mejia-Almazan agreed to plead guilty to an indictment charging h  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release: A federal jury convicted a Tennessee nurse practitioner last week for illegally prescribing opioids - including oxycodone and fentanyl - from his medical practice. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Jeffrey Young, 49, of Jackson, used his medical practice, Preventagenix, to illegally prescribe more than one million medically unnecessary co  more

WASHINGTON, March 31 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet: * * * The Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America Agenda: Delivering for Tennessee Companies have committed to invest over $15 billion in Tennessee since President Biden took office For decades, the U.S. exported jobs and imported products, while other countries surpassed us in critical sectors like infrastructure, clean energy, semiconductors, and biotechnology. Thanks to President Biden's Investi  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a news briefing on April 6, 2023, by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications: * * * MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Oh, I heard a "knock 'em dead." All right, everybody. Happy Thursday. Good afternoon. I have a few things at the top before I turn it over to the Admiral. As I was walking out here today, we saw news that Republican legislators in Tennessee we  more