ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, April 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news on April 24, 2023: The term "launch pad" has multiple meanings. It can refer to the platform from which rockets, missiles and vehicles blast into the sky. Throughout the years, Arnold Engineering Development Complex personnel have helped develop various articles ultimately propelled from launch pads. Figuratively, it can also describe something that serves to boost a pursuit. This is the typ  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 29 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 28, 2023, entitled "Tennessee Job Openings and Labor Turnover - February 2023": * * * Tennessee had 246,000 job openings in February 2023, compared to 236,000 openings in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Victoria G. Lee noted that the job openings rate in Ten  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 20 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report entitled "Women's Earnings In Tennessee - 2021": * * * In 2021, Tennessee women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $781, or 80.0 percent of the $976 median usual weekly earnings for their male counterparts, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Victoria  more

ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, April 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Bradley Hicks, AEDC Public Affairs Guy Chastain now traverses hallways, offices and test facilities throughout Arnold Air Force Base to ensure safeguards designed to keep base personnel out of serious and potentially life-threatening situations are working as they should. In mid-January, Chastain took on the role of fire inspector for the Arnold Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR are in the final stages of cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP). With all buildings down, crews are focused on soil remediation and other projects to enable the transfer of ETTP land back to the community. The latest effort is happening on the banks of Poplar  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following public notice (WC Docket No. 23-140) on April 26, 2023: * * * Re: Copper Retirement Network Change Certification Received Tennessee Telephone Company (Tennessee Telephone), an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC), has filed certification that public notice of network change(s) involving the retirement of copper has been provided through its publicly accessible Internet site, as r  more

WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: The Justice Department today filed a complaint challenging Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a recently enacted law that denies necessary medical care to youth based solely on who they are. The complaint alleges that SB 1's ban on providing certain medically necessary care to transgender minors violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. The department is also asking the co  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 28, 2023: A Tennessee man was found guilty yesterday of obstructing an investigation into allegations that he sexually abused an inmate in his custody. James Stewart Justice, 32, of Columbia, a corrections officer with the Maury County Jail, was convicted of one count of falsification of records. According to evidence introduced at trial, the defendant, formerly known as James Stewart Thomas, wrot  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 26 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Valentino "Tino" Cooper, a scientist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to DOE's Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee for a three-year term. Cooper's research elucidates the fundamental understanding of advanced materials for next-generation energy and information technologies. The BESAC provides advice and   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A trio of new and improved cosmological simulation codes was unveiled in a series of presentations at the annual April Meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis. Chaired by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's director of science, Bronson Messer, the session covering these next-generation codes heralds a new era of exascale computatio  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 28 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Xiao-Ying Yu, a distinguished scientist in the Materials Science and Technology Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has recently been chosen for several prominent editorial roles. She was appointed to a three-year term on the editorial board of Results in Engineering, an open-access Elsevier journal, and as the guest editor  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Growing up in China, Yue Yuan stood beneath the world's largest hydroelectric dam, built to harness the world's third-longest river. Her father brought her to Three Gorges Dam every year as it was being constructed across the Yangtze River so she could witness its progress. "Everyone in science classes was expected to be working in the hydropower field, ju  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: On the grounds of the University of Maine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center sits the nation's first additively manufactured home made entirely from biobased materials - BioHome3D. The 600-square-foot home, the result of a collaboration between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UMaine, is serving as a testbed to see how well the materials perform over time   more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on April 24, 2023, in a meeting with Tennessee state representatives: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Well, it's an honor to have you all three here. It really is. And I know you got a chance -- the Vice President went down to see you. I'm sorry I couldn't be with her at the time. But, you know, you're standing up for our kids. You're standing up for our communities -- safer communities -- and democratic values. That's what it's all   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 26 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release on April 25, 2023: Five former Methodist Hospital Employees and Roderick Harvey, 41, of Memphis, have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly known as "HIPAA." United States Attorney Kevin G. Ritz announced the guilty pleas today. According to United St  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Henry C. Leventis, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: A Maury County, Tennessee corrections officer was convicted today by a federal jury of obstruction of justice, announced U.S. Attorney Henry C. Leventis. James Justice, aka James Stewart Thomas, 32, of Columbia, Tenn., a corrections officer with the Maury County Sheriff's Office, was indicted in May 2022 and charged with falsifying re  more

TAMPA, Florida, April 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release: U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Brian Carroll (47, New Market, Tennessee) to 15 months in federal prison for wire fraud. The court also entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $42,000, representing the proceeds of the wire fraud scheme. Carroll had pleaded guilty on January 5, 2023. According to court documents, at the time of the com  more