ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, June 7 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Lee Smith, Integrated Prevention and Response Office In today's digital age, technology plays a vital role in transforming lives and fostering connections. Two remarkable applications, AF Connect and MyTN, have emerged as powerful allies in empowering individuals and making a positive impact within the community of Arnold Air Force Base and beyond. Developed by the Air Force and the state of  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 10 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Tennessee Field Office issued the following news release: Tennessee farmers expect to harvest 28.4 million bushels of winter wheat during 2023 according to the Tennessee field office of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. The expected crop for 2023 would be up 16% from the previous year. The forecast was based on crop conditions as of June 1 and decreased 1% from the M  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers, in collaboration with Enginuity Power Systems, demonstrated that a micro combined heat and power prototype, or mCHP, with a piston engine can achieve an overall energy efficiency greater than 93%. Designed to replace a backup generator or traditional gas hot water heater, the mCHP switches between natural gas, hydrogen or bio  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 8 (TNSawa) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Stan David, retired scientist and Corporate Fellow Emeritus at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was awarded the Joining and Welding Science Award from the Joining and Welding Research Institute at Osaka University, Japan. The award "commends researchers who have contributed internationally outstanding achievements in the science of j  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: An innovative and sustainable chemistry developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory for capturing carbon dioxide from air has been licensed to Holocene, a Knoxville-based startup focused on designing and building plants that remove carbon dioxide from atmospheric air. "ORNL is tackling climate change by developing numerous technologies that   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In a discovery aimed at accelerating the development of process-advantaged crops for jet biofuels, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a capability to insert multiple genes into plants in a single step. "As we try to meet the goal of a zero-carbon aviation industry by 2050 with sustainable fuels, the challenges ar  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on June 8, 2023: For more than 100 years, Magotteaux has provided grinding materials and castings for the mining, cement and aggregates industries. The company, based in Belgium, began its international expansion in 1968. Its second international plant has been a critical part of the Pulaski, Tennessee, economy since 1972. The global company now has 14 plants  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 8 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have invented a coating that could dramatically reduce friction in common load-bearing systems with moving parts, from vehicle drive trains to wind and hydroelectric turbines. It reduces the friction of steel rubbing on steel at least a hundredfold. The novel ORNL coating could help grease  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 7 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists found that a small tweak created big performance improvements in a type of solid-state battery, a technology considered vital to broader electric vehicle adoption. These batteries use a solid electrolyte instead of a potentially flammable liquid. When the battery charges or operates, ions move between electrodes throu  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: Nearly 85 miles west of Oak Ridge, 10,000 students attend Tennessee Tech University. About 30% of the student body is enrolled in engineering programs, and most of those students are seeking jobs that keep them in the state. "They want to live in Tennessee once they graduate, even if they're not native Tennesseans," said Lori Mann Bruce, the universit  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Henry C. Leventis, issued the following news release: 21 individuals charged with distributing substantial amounts of controlled substances in and around Maury County and Lewis County, Tennessee, have pleaded guilty to federal drug distribution charges, announced United States Attorney Henry C. Leventis. An indictment returned in December 2021 charged the following 14 individuals with conspiracy to distribu  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Francis M. Hamilton III, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: On June 7, 2023, a federal grand jury in Knoxville returned a one-count indictment against Melody Sasser, 47, of Knoxville, TN, for use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1958. Sasser was arrested on Thursday, May 18, 2023, pursuant to a criminal complaint. The case   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 7 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release on June 6, 2023: Charles A. "Chuck" Jones, 52, and Mark J. Whitaker, 51, both of Murray, Kentucky, have been convicted of federal crimes and sentenced for a decade long scheme to defraud the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) E-rate program. United States Attorney Kevin Ritz announced the sentences today. According to United States Attorney Ritz and the  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Francis M. Hamilton III, issued the following news release: On June 8, 2023, Wynde Collins, 56, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to 121 months by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, United States District Judge, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville. Following a 12-day jury trial, which concluded on October 20, 2022, Collins was convicted of conspiracy to  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on June 9, 2023: A Tennessee man was sentenced today on felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. 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 Lee Roche, 28, of Murfreesboro, Te  more

GREENEVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee issued the following news release: On June 8, 2023, Michael Wayne Lee, 45 of Blaine, Tennessee, was sentenced to 87 months in prison by the Honorable Clifton Corker, United States District Judge, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. Following his imprisonment, Lee will be on supervised release for three years. Following a 4-day trial, end  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 (TNSpconf) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's European Command issued the following news release: U.S. Army Gen. Christopher Cavoli, commander, U.S. European Command, co-hosted the two-day 2023 Chiefs of Defense Conference alongside Romanian Gen. Daniel Petrescu, Romanian Chief of Defense Staff, in Bucharest, Romania, from June 8-9, 2023. The event drew representatives from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, in addition to N  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, June 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, Christopher R. Kavanaugh, issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: The former owner of a chain of buprenorphine clinics, with locations in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon on three drug charges. Dr. Ralph Thomas Reach, 63, of Bristol, Virginia, pleaded guilty in March 2023 to three counts of causing drugs to be misbranded while held f  more