WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- The U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol issued the following news: Cadet Lt. Cols. Soren Koh of the Illinois Wing and Zachary Barker of the Tennessee Wing are the new heads of the National Cadet Advisory Council, with Koh appointed chair and Barker vice chair. Koh, a Civil Air Patrol member since April 2018, belongs to the Col. Charles Compton Composite Squadron. He represented the Great Lakes Region during the council's 2022-2023 term after serving as the Illinois  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Aug. 16 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2023: * * * Federal Agency Charges That the Two Companies Punished Employee After He Complained About National Origin Discrimination * * * Barrett Distribution Center and Supreme Staffing LLC, operating as joint employers, violated federal civil rights law when they retaliated against an employee after he complained that Barrett discriminated against applicants and workers  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Tennessee to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms and straight-line winds June 25 - 26, 2023. Public Assistance federal funding is available to the state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-shar  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news release: The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education has named its next Beryllium Testing Laboratory (Be Lab) manager. After nearly a decade of leadership, the current manager, Ann Gehl, is retiring and the lab's associate manager, Melissa Jones, has been tapped to take her place. ORISE is a leader in beryllium studies and maintains a comprehensive bery  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 18, 2023: A federal jury in Memphis convicted a Tennessee man yesterday for making false statements on an attestation to receive $107,568.03 from the Provider Relief Fund, a federal program that provided financial assistance to medical providers offering care to Americans suffering from COVID-19. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Raymond Earl Vallier, 52, of Fayette Count  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Aug. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release on Aug. 16, 2023: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and Homeland Security Investigations special agents repatriated cultural artifacts, some dating back to 900 B.C., to the Government of Mexico today at CBP's Area Port of Memphis, Tenn. During the repatriation ceremony, CBP Area Port Director Michael Neipert presented 281 pieces of Mexican ar  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has completed its final environmental impact statement on Kairos Power's application for a permit to build a test version of the company's Hermes advanced reactor design in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The staff has weighed the facility's environmental, economic, technical and other benefits against environmental and other impacts, and recommends that the permit should b  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A group at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory made a difference for local youth through hands-on projects that connected neutron science and engineering intuitively. Two members of ORNL's Women in Neutron Sciences, or WiNS, designed the projects as part of the group's outreach mission promoting equitable and inclusive access to educati  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Takaaki Koyanagi, an R&D staff member with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the TMS Frontiers of Materials award. TMS, or The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, connects scientists and engineers working with minerals, metals and materials in industry, academia and government positions around the world. The award i  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Timothy Gray of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory led a study that may have revealed an unexpected change in the shape of an atomic nucleus. The surprise finding could affect our understanding of what holds nuclei together, how protons and neutrons interact and how elements form. "We used radioactive beams of excited sodium-32 nuclei   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: For more than half a century, the 1,000-foot-diameter spherical reflector dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico was the largest radio telescope in the world. Completed in 1963, the dish was built in a natural sinkhole, with the telescope's feed antenna suspended 500 feet above the dish on a 1.8-million-pound steel platform. Three concrete towers and  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: After a highly lauded research campaign that successfully redesigned a hepatitis C drug into one of the leading drug treatments for COVID-19, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are now turning their drug design approach toward cancer. In their latest study, published in the journal Communications Chemistry, the team used  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 16 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2023: Cody Lloyd became a nuclear engineer because of his interest in the Manhattan Project, the United States' mission to advance nuclear science to end World War II. As a research associate in nuclear forensics at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lloyd now teaches computers to interpret data from imagery of nuclear weapo  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The White House issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2023: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Tennessee and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms and straight-line winds during the period of June 25 to June 26, 2023. Federal funding is available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-s  more

GREENEVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 16 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Francis M. Hamilton III, issued the following news release: On August 14, 2023, Joshua Dwayne Mabery, 47, of Erwin, Tennessee, was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. Following a three-day trial, ending on March 30, 2023, Mabery was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 50   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Henry C. Leventis, issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2023: John Paul Dillon, 40, of Franklin, Tennessee pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to fraud in connection with COVID-19 relief programs, mortgage fraud, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Henry C. Leventis for the Middle District of Tennessee. Dillon pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud, one count of wire   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Nashville District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District announces a base contract award to Brasfield & Gorrie, L.L.C., of $16.8M for the Dissolved Oxygen facility. This is a sustainability project funded by the Section 212 Program to install an upstream diffuser system at Wolf Creek Dam on the Cumberland River in Jamestown, Kentucky. The district is partnering with power preferen  more