WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2024: * * * National childcare provider must also pay $43K in back wages, damages * * * DALLAS - The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered the Southlake location of a national childcare provider to reinstate an employee and pay $43,295 in back wages and damages after the employer fired them for reporting concerns about unsanitary and unsafe conditions  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) completed another key milestone in one of the nation's largest environmental cleanup projects. Congressional, state, and local leaders, along with private industry and officials from DOE and the U.S. Environmental Protec  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2024: On Aug. 20, Christopher Domermuth, 49, and Domermuth Environmental Services LLC (DES), based in Knoxville, Tennessee, both pleaded guilty today to violating the Clean Water Act by knowingly discharging pollutants into a navigable waterway without a permit. Sentencing has been set for Dec. 12 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville. Domermuth faces a ma  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: Early detection and prevention of potential pandemics whether they affect humans, animals or plants are vital to the health, economy and security of the United States. The U.S. National Science Foundation has funded a series of projects totaling $72 million that will bring together the multidisciplinary research and training, technology and data, and sustained collaboration needed to tackle this g  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Arlie P. Barrett, 19, of Bluff City, Tennessee, killed during the Korean War, was accounted for June 7, 2024. In August 1950, Barrett was a member of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He went missing in action after his unit engaged in com  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release: Memphis, TN - On August 21, 2024, U.S. Marshals captured two wanted fugitives, one of which was wanted for murder. Tyler Jones, 19, was indicted by the Shelby County grand jury and a warrant for first degree murder was issued August 1st. The charges stem from an investigation by the Memphis Police Department. On July 23, 2023, around 2 p.m., MPD responded to a shooting at 928 McNeil  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release: A Providence Forge man was arrested today related to his alleged embezzlement of funds from his former employer, the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program (Birth-Injury Program). John Hunter Raines, 38, the Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Director of the Birth-Injury Program, is charged in a criminal complaint with felony fraud. Th  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news: When crews with Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and cleanup contractor UCOR finished demolishing the mile-long K-25 Building more than a decade ago, they left behind a massive 44-acre footprint that's now part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. With the addition of the K-25 Viewing Platform, now underway, visitors will be a  more