CLARKSVILLE, Arkansas, May 16 -- The University of the Ozarks posted the following news: * * * Class of 2026 Graduates Receive Diplomas * University of the Ozarks conferred degrees on 145 graduates on Saturday, May 16, during its Spring 2026 Commencement held on the campus mall. The keynote speaker was alumnus Loscar "Los" Mejia '01 of Columbus, Ohio. Mejia is the distribution director for lululemon's East Coast Distribution Center in Columbus. He has been with lululemon since November 202  more

MONROE, Michigan, May 12 -- Monroe County Community College issued the following news release: * * * COURT DISMISSES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST MCCC Monroe County's 38th Circuit Court has dismissed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against MCCC in August 2025. The suit claimed that the college "failed to produce all responsive records" in an employee's personnel file, "improperly withheld documents," arbitrarily redacted non-exempt material and did not properly  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule determining that the Cleveland, Ohio ozone nonattainment area has attained the 2015 ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard. The rule was published May 14 in the Federal Register and applies to the Cleveland area, which includes Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, and Summit counties in northeastern Ohio. The Environmental Protection Agency based the determination on complete, quality-ass  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- A report issued by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, titled 'Glass Property-Composition Models Update for use in Direct Feed High-Level Waste Flowsheet Development' and authored by Xiaonan Lu, John D. Vienna, Pavel Ferkl, Dongsang Kim, Jos Marcial, Jincheng Bai, Dewei Wang, Jarrod V. Crum, James J. Neeway, and Nicholas A. Lumetta, with report number PNNL-38953, Rev. 0 / EWG-RPT-058, Rev. 0, says the latest modeling work is meant to support direct-feed high-le  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- PNNL-28549, Grid Impacts of Hyperloop Technology in the United States, was published in March 2019 and studied how conceptual Hyperloop systems could affect the electric grid. The report concludes that Hyperloop's pulsing power demand would likely create voltage and frequency disturbances unless compensation equipment or energy storage is added. The study modeled at-scale Hyperloop systems in California, Colorado, Ohio, and San Francisco, using assumed passenger   more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 16 -- McDonald Hopkins, a law firm, issued the following commentary on May 15, 2026, by associate Julia Ross and members James Boutrous II and Timothy Lowe: * * * Tennessee bans non-competes based on employee income On May 7, 2026, Tennessee's Governor signed House Bill 1034 (HB 1034) into law, prohibiting employers from requiring, requesting, or enforcing non-compete agreements with workers who earn less than $70,000 annually. The law takes effect July 1, 2026, making Te  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: * * * OH-11 Youth Advisory Council Present Capstone Projects, Recognized for Completion of Leadership Program * Cleveland, OH - Today, members of Congresswoman Shontel Brown's 2025-2026 OH-11 Youth Advisory Council presented their capstone projects to community members and were recognized for the completion of the program at a ceremony at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The OH-11 Youth Advisory Coun  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 (TNSLrpt) -- A report issued by FERC2222.org and cusln.org, titled 'FERC Order 2222 & DER Policy and Implementation Report January 2026' and identified as PNNL-38952, examines progress in distributed energy resource integration while highlighting unresolved gaps in communication rules between utilities and aggregators. The report outlines regulatory and market developments tied to FERC Order 2222, which enables aggregated distributed energy resources to participate in wholesa  more