SAVANNAH, Georgia, July 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgi, Jill E. Steinberg, issued the following news release: An Ohio company and its Tennessee subsidiary have agreed to pay nearly $4 million to resolve criminal and civil claims related to illegal labor practices reported by a whistleblower who was murdered for revealing the scheme. Davey Tree Expert Company, of Ohio, and its subsidiary, Wolf Tree, Inc., entered into a non-prosecution and settlement agreement with   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Tennessee Field Office issued the following news release: According to the Tennessee Field Office of the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service Tennessee farmers expect to produce 29.3 million bushels of winter wheat from 390,000 acres for harvest this season. At this level, production would be up 20% from 2022 and up 3% from the June forecast. Based upon crop conditions as  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: An area cleaned up by the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) years ago is becoming a new base of operations for hundreds of workers who will conduct large-scale cleanup at the Y-12 National Security Complex. The Old Salvage Yard was established in the 1970s for storing scrap metal. In 2012, OREM finished a project that removed 21 mill  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Experts across varied technology fields gathered at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to collaborate on the future of geospatial systems at the Trillion-Pixel GeoAI Challenge workshop. The third iteration of this event focused on multimodal advances in the field, including progress in artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, high-performa  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 8 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers developed a model framework that identifies ways to ensure wildlife can safely navigate their habitats while not unduly affecting infrastructure. The project centered on the 32,000-acre Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee, home to Department of Energy facilities and several at-risk species like the four-toed salamande  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news release: On June 28, 2023, the ORISE Beryllium Testing Laboratory was the subject of a College of American Pathologists (CAP) inspection, a requirement for maintaining the lab's CAP-certification. During the inspection the inspector examined the lab's records and procedures for the preceding two years. "The purpose of the inspection was to discover, document,  more

AIKEN, South Carolina, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory issued the following news release: Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) recently hosted a Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) Collaborative Workshop and Job Shadowing Event. The three-day event was led by SRNL's Inventor of the Year Simona Hunyadi Murph, Ph.D., and included students and professors from Tennessee  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Over the past decade, teams of engineers, chemists and biologists have analyzed the physical and chemical properties of cicada wings, hoping to unlock the secret of their ability to kill microbes on contact. If this function of nature can be replicated by science, it may lead to products with inherently antibacterial surfaces that are more effective than cur  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 11 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release on July 10, 2023: United States Attorney Kevin Ritz today announced the creation of a National Security and Civil Rights Unit within the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee. This move permanently positions a supervisory attorney and several prosecutors to respond to and prevent hate crimes and civil rights viol  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, July 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Francis M. Hamilton III, issued the following news release: Dermatologist, John Y. Chung, M.D., and his practice Skin Cancer & Cosmetic Dermatology Center, P.C. ("SCCDC"), which operates 13 dermatology clinics in southeast Tennessee and north Georgia, have agreed to pay $6.6 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims to federal healthcare pro  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, July 15 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Francis M. Hamilton III, issued the following news release: On July 14, 2023, Ian P. Clarke, 43, currently of Knoxville, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville. As part of the plea agreement filed with the court, Clarke agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on July 11, 2023: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to the Greater Nashville Regional Council in Nashville, Tennessee, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) serving small businesses in thirteen counties throughout Northern Middle Tennessee  more