ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, July 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Bradley Hicks, AEDC Public Affairs The need to attract more employees to careers related to the development and support of hypersonics and ensure those who pursue such jobs are ready to contribute on day one is not lost on officials in academia and the U.S. Air Force. Arnold Engineering Development Complex Commander Col. Randel Gordon and University of Tennessee Space Institute Executive D  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following remarks by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke announcing pattern or practice investigation of the city of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department: * * * My name is Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. And I am joined by U.S. Attorney Kevin Ritz, who serves here in the Western District of Tennessee. Today, the Justice Department is o  more

SAN DIEGO, California, July 29 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, Randy Grossman, issued the following news release on July 28, 2023: Jimmy and Ashley Collins, a married couple living in Birchwood, Tennessee, pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that they participated in a health care fraud scheme that bilked TRICARE - the health care program that covers United States service members -out of more than $65 million. The couple admitted they worked with othe  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release on July 25, 2023: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against Michael and Amanda Griffis of Clarksville, Tennessee. The complaint charges the defendants with defrauding over 100 people across the U.S. and failing to register with the CFTC in connection with a multi-million dollar co  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Media Bureau issued the following notice of proposed rulemaking (MB Docket No. 23-244; RM-11955): * * * In the Matter of Amendment of Section 73.622(j), Table of Allotments, Television Broadcast Stations (Knoxville, Tennessee) NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING By the Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau: I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Video Division, Media Bureau (Bureau), has before it a petition for rulemaking filed on February 7, 2023, a  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 25, 2023: The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging two Lawrence County, Tennessee, law enforcement officers with federal civil rights and obstruction offenses stemming from their use of unlawful force during the arrest of a 61-year-old man. According to count one of the indictment, on Oct. 5, 2020, in Giles County, Tennessee, Sherriff  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: A federal jury in the Middle District of Tennessee convicted a medical doctor today for unlawfully distributing controlled substances. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Bowdoin Smith, 67, of Carthage, Tennessee, unlawfully prescribed controlled substances, including opioids such as oxycodone and morphine. Smith, a doctor of osteopathy, owned and operated a gener  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: When geoinformatics engineering researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to better understand changes in land areas and points of interest around the world, they turned to the locals - their data, at least. Through an intelligent combination of geotagged social media, global location and natural language data, ORNL's Junchuan Fa  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory nuclear chemist Clarice Phelps has long worked to educate the next generation of STEM scientists. A new endeavor will let her reach students entering college who need extra help mastering the basics they need to pursue careers in science. Phelps spent three days in July in New York filming the online General Chemistry exemplar   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on July 26, 2023: Recent figures from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and its contractors are conducting cleanup at a rate leading the nation among federal facility sites. Government-sponsored environmental cleanup in the United States extends far beyond DOE's 15 active EM clea  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: UT-Battelle, LLC, has appointed Stephen K. Streiffer to be the next director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He currently serves as interim director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and will join ORNL in October. "Stephen is a proven leader with diverse experience and a commitment to mission-driven research and development," said Lou Von Thaer, CEO o  more

GREENEVILLE, Tennessee, July 25 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Francis M. Hamilton III, issued the following news release: On July 24, 2023, Steven Shelton, 39, of Greeneville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 168 months' imprisonment and Shannon Crittenden, 45, of Mosheim, Tennessee was sentenced to 120 months' imprisonment by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, United States District Judge, in the United States District Court at Greeneville. Co-defendant Arthur Tidwell, 46,  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 26 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Kevin G. Ritz, issued the following news release on July 25, 2023: Michael Jefferson, 45, of Memphis has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute approximately 12 kilos of methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney Kevin R. Ritz for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today. According to information presented in court, on March 26, 2022, officers with   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 26 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Henry C. Leventis, issued the following news release on July 25, 2023: A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment yesterday charging two Lawrence County, Tennessee, Sheriff's deputies with federal civil rights and obstruction offenses stemming from their use of unlawful force during the arrest of a 61-year-old man. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Right  more