OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Transcription factor IIH, or TFIIH, pronounced "TF two H," is a veritable workhorse among the protein complexes that control human cell activity. It plays critical roles both in transcription -- the highly regulated enzymatic synthesis of RNA from a DNA template -- and in the repair of damaged DNA. But how can one protein assembly participate in two such vastly differ  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 30 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Tennessee Field Office issued the following news release: Soybeans planted in Tennessee were estimated at 1.60 million acres, down 50,000 acres from 2022. Acres harvested for grain, at 1.57 million acres, was 50,000 acres below acres a year ago. U.S. soybean planted area for 2023 was estimated at 83.5 million acres, down 5% from last year. Area for harvest, at 82.7 million a  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 6 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A research team from the University of California, Santa Cruz, have used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Summit supercomputer to run one of the most complete cosmological models yet to probe the properties of dark matter -- the hypothetical cosmic web of the universe that largely remains a mystery some 90 years after its existence was definitive  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Postal Service Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. 23-100-1-R23) on June 27, 2023, entitled "Collierville Main Post Office in Collierville, Tennessee: Delivery Unit Operations." Here are excerpts: * * * Background This interim report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of mail delivery, customer service, and property conditions at the Collierville Main Post Office (MPO) in Collierville,. The Collierville MPO is in the Tennessee  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Postal Service Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. 23-100-2-R23) on June 27, 2023, entitled "Cordova Main Post Office in Cordova, Tennessee: Delivery Unit Operations." Here are excerpts: * * * Background This interim report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of mail delivery, customer service, and property conditions at the Cordova Main Post Office in Cordova, TN. The Cordova Main Post Office is in the Tennessee District of th  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Postal Service Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. 23-100-3-R23) on June 27, 2023, entitled "Desoto Carrier Annex in Memphis, Tennessee: Delivery Unit Operations." Here are excerpts: * * * Background This interim report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of mail delivery, customer service, and property conditions at the Desoto Carrier Annex in Memphis, TN. The Desoto Carrier Annex is in the Tennessee District of the Southern A  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Postal Service Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. 23-099-R23) on June 27, 2023, entitled "Efficiency of Operations at the Memphis Processing and Distribution Center and Mail Processing Annex, Memphis, Tennessee." Here are excerpts: * * * Background This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of the efficiency of operations at the Memphis Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) and Mail Processing Annex (MPA) in Memphis,   more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Postal Service Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. 23-100-4-R23) on June 27, 2023, entitled "Germantown Main Post Office in Germantown, Tennessee: Delivery Unit Operations." Here are excerpts: * * * Background This interim report presents the results of our self initiated audit of mail delivery, customer service, and property conditions at the Germantown Main Post Office (MPO) in Germantown, TN. The Germantown MPO is in the Tennessee Distri  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Postal Service Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. 23-100-5-R23) on June 27, 2023, entitled "Hickory Hill Station in Memphis, Tennessee: Delivery Unit Operations." Here are excerpts: * * * Background This interim report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of mail delivery, customer service, and property conditions at the Hickory Hill Station in Memphis, TN. The Hickory Hill Station is in the Tennessee District of the Southern A  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Postal Service Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. 23-100) on June 28, 2023, entitled "Tennessee District: Delivery Unit Operations." Here are excerpts: * * * We performed a self-initiated audit at the Memphis Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC), a Mail Processing Annex (MPA), and five delivery units in the Memphis, TN region the week of May 1, 2023. The delivery units included the Collierville, Cordova, and Germantown Main Post Office  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release: The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino has announced that its Young Ambassadors Program (YAP) is placing interns at Smithsonian-affiliated museums in El Paso, Texas; McAllen, Texas; Memphis, Tennessee; and Springfield, Massachusetts, to build on the Smithsonian's commitment to reach rural and underrepresented communities. The national program for graduating high school seniors is supported by   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: With a significant percentage of employees eligible for retirement in the next decade, the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractor UCOR are focused on initiatives that will bring interns and graduates into the workforce to learn from experienced personnel before they retire. As part of this effort, UCOR expanded its inte  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, July 8 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, Christopher R. Kavanaugh, issued the following news release: Health Connect America, (HCA) headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee with locations in Big Stone Gap and Culpeper, Virginia, has agreed to pay $4,611,375 to resolve allegations that it billed Virginia Medicaid for services not provided. As part of the resolution, HCA further agreed to be subject to a period of 5 years of increased compliance and oversi  more