WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration announced that it expects to award up to 12 discretionary grants for the development of integrated health care networks to address unmet local health care needs in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $12 million with a ceiling of $56,604 for each award in the program. Th  more

JACKSON, Tennessee, Aug. 28 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * - Company's Written Policy Terminated Women at the Fifth Month of Pregnancy Regardless of Ability to Work, Federal Agency Charged * * * A Plus Care Solutions, Inc., a supplier of direct professional caregivers to clients with disabilities, has agreed to pay $200,000 and furnish injunctive relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportuni  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from The Economics Daily: Whether they are playing live music or having their latest hit song played on the radio, musical groups and artists entertain us each day with music such as rock, jazz, and country. In December 2018, employment share in the musical groups and artists industry in Tennessee and Hawaii was 3.8 times higher than the national share of employment in the industry. In   more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to reinstate a former employee who TVA placed on paid administrative leave, and then later terminated in retaliation for raising nuclear safety concerns. OSHA investigators determined that the TVA terminated the employ  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Six new nuclear reactor technologies are set to deploy for commercial use between 2030 and 2040. Called Generation IV nuclear reactors, they will operate with improved performance at dramatically higher temperatures than today's reactors. Weiju Ren of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory manages an operation by which global participants share rese  more

LONDON, Kentucky, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Robert M. Duncan Jr., issued the following news release: Pete Anthony Tyndale, 47, of Hollywood, Florida, was sentenced to 29 years of imprisonment by United States District Judge Robert E. Wier for conspiring to distribute oxycodone and other drugs, and for money laundering. Tyndale was the co-owner of the Tennessee Pain Institute (TPI), a pain clinic that operated from 2011 to 2016 near Chattanooga. After a   more

BUFFALO, New York, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York, James P. Kennedy Jr., issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy Enix a/k/a Blaze, 60, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant, a Kingsmen Motorcycle Club (KMC) member and Florida/Tennessee Regional President, was sentenced for his conviction following a four-month jury trial of RICO conspira  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 54242) involving the Sequoyah power reactor in Tennessee: AUTOMATIC REACTOR TRIP "At 0109 EDT, with Unit 1 in Mode 1 at 100 percent power, the reactor automatically tripped due to a dropped rod causing a negative rate trip. The trip was not complex, with all systems responding normally post-trip. "Operations responded and stabilized the plant. Decay heat is being removed by the auxiliary feed  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Craig Blue, a program director at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a 2019 fellow for SME (formerly known as the Society for Manufacturing Engineers). The honor recognizes Blue's outstanding contributions to manufacturing materials, processes, composites, additive manufacturing and energy efficiency to advance the nation's eco  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Project bridges compute staff, resources at ORNL and VA health data to speed suicide risk screening for US veterans * * * More than 6,000 veterans died by suicide in 2016, and from 2005 to 2016, the rate of veteran suicides in the United States increased by more than 25 percent. Suicide prevention is the US Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA's) highest p  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Materials scientists, electrical engineers, computer scientists, and other members of the neuromorphic computing community from industry, academia, and government agencies gathered in downtown Knoxville July 23-25 to talk about what comes next in supercomputing after the end of Moore's Law. According to this principle, computing power has steadily increased because   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: When Nina Balke came to the United States on a Feodor Lynen Fellowship for German scholars, her original plan was to complete a year abroad and return home to native opportunities in materials sciences. Nearly 12 years later, she is still probing the nanoscale properties of materials at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and seeking outdoor adve  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have the potential to support medical decision-making, from diagnosing diseases to prescribing treatments. But to prioritize patient safety, researchers and practitioners must first ensure such methods are accurate. In a 2019 perspective published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Edmon Begoli of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, T  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: Oak Ridge environmental cleanup contractor UCOR brought together leaders from three global companies this month in an inaugural event to help area small businesses create more diverse, inclusive workforces. "We are focused on developing a pipeline of workers for environmental cleanup work today and in the future," UCOR President and CEO Ken Rueter sai  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, D. Michael Dunavant, issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant and U.S. Marshal Jeffrey Holt announced today that a two-week-long joint federal, state and local law enforcement initiative has resulted in the arrests of 214 individuals in West Tennessee. These individuals were arrested on a variety of criminal charges, including homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, carjacking, ars  more

JACKSON, Tennessee, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, D. Michael Dunavant, issued the following news release: After a three-day jury trial, Johnny Lee Nixon, Jr., 23, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Commit multiple business robberies, Hobbs Act business robbery, possession of a firearm during a robbery, and receiving firearms while under indictment. U.S. Attorney Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today. According to information presented in court, during  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Aug. 26 -- The Tennessee Valley Authority issued the following news release: The Tennessee Valley Authority has identified a preferred route for a new transmission line that would diversify the power flow to increase power reliability in the Memphis metro area. TVA is investing over $62 million in transmission projects in the area in addition to the $1 billion investment in the Allen Combined Cycle Plant. TVA continues to invest in the Memphis area to deliver reliable power  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Inspector General issued the following oversight report (No. 18-02988-198) summary on "Pathology Processing Delays at the Memphis VA Medical Center, Tennessee": Summary: The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a healthcare inspection to evaluate allegations that surgical pathology specimen processing delays in the pathology and laboratory medicine service (P&LMS) resulted in multiple patients' harm and possibly deat  more