PHOENIX, Arizona, Aug. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: United States Attorney Gary M. Restaino announced today that United Seating and Mobility, LLC, d/b/a Numotion (Numotion), a Missouri limited liability company that provides specialized durable medical equipment, agreed to pay $13,500,000 to resolve allegations that the company violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA). The settlement resolves allegation  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news: Ever on the lookout for new ways to improve the fermentation of corn sugars into ethanol fuel, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have devised an approach for using genetically modified baker's yeast to prevent a top cause of costly ethanol plant shutdowns--namely, contamination by unwelcome bacteria. Scientists modified the yeast's genetic makeup with "codi  more

BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 27 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton are leading 14 other states in a suit filed in a Texas U.S. District Court demanding an end to the Biden-Harris Administration's massive overreach through the Parole-in-Place (PIP) Program. This program is traditionally administered on a case-by-case basis to allow aliens who entered the country without authorization to re  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: * * * Nine doctoral students awarded prestigious fellowships for advanced research * * * The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is pleased to announce the selection of nine new graduate fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. Funded by the Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Initiatives Fund program, these fell  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Alicia Manjon Sanz's drive and natural curiosity about the composition of materials earned her the Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher fellowship in 2011, and her work carried her through Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan before bringing her to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2020. Sanz is a neutron scattering scientist working at the Spallation Neutron Source, or   more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: A Tennessee man was sentenced today on a felony charge related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Michael Asbury, 44, of Knoxville  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility issued the following news: * * * Three representative ARM small field campaigns investigate aerosol formation, ship exhaust, and evolving albedo * * * Compared to their larger counterparts in atmospheric research, small field campaigns involve fewer people, smaller budgets, and tighter schedules. However, these time- and money-constrained efforts still take on big scientifi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: A Tennessee man was sentenced today on a felony charge related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Michael Asbury, 44, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was se  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: Memphis, TN - Today, U.S. Marshals captured Memphis murder suspect, Deario Wilkerson, 20, after he fell through the ceiling from the attic space where he was hiding. On April 2, 2024, Troy Cunningham was found shot to death at the 1500 block of N. Merton Street in Memphis, Tennessee. On May 9th, an arrest warrant for first degree murder and reckless endangerment-dea  more