ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Bradley Hicks, AEDC Public Affairs The economic impact of Arnold Air Force Base across the state of Tennessee was $1.06 billion for the 2023 fiscal year. Arnold AFB impacted the local areas through payroll, secondary jobs created through local spending, and other expenditures for supplies, utilities, fuel and services and the spin-off impact of those purchases. The base employed a mixture  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb. 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 20, 2024, entitled "Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization in Tennessee - 2023": * * * In 2023, the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part-time for economic reasons, and those marginally attached to the labor force), was 6.0 percent in Tennesse  more

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release on Feb. 21, 2024: The U.S. Department of Labor today asked a federal court to issue a nationwide temporary restraining order and injunction against Fayette Janitorial Service LLC - operating as Fayette Industrial - to stop the Tennessee-based company from illegally employing children while the department continues its investigations of the company's labor practices. Filed by the d  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 24 (TNSres) -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Feb. 23, 2024: * * * Unprecedented funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is transforming communities across the state * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced over $124 million from President Biden's Investing in America agenda for Tennessee drinking water and clean water infrastructure upgrades. The funding is part of the over $50 billion investment i  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Though artificial intelligence decreases human error in experimentation, human experts outperform AI when identifying causation or working with small data sets. To capitalize on AI and researcher strengths, ORNL scientists, in collaboration with National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, developed a human-AI collaboration reco  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56970) involving Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Tennessee: * * * Facility: Watts Bar Region: 2 State: TN Unit: [1] [2] [] RX Type: [1] W-4-LP,[2] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: Tyson Jones HQ OPS Officer: Kerby Scales Notification Date: 02/16/2024 Notification Time: 02:05 [ET] Event Date: 02/15/2024 Event Time: 22:24 [EST] Last Update Date: 02/16/2024 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Sect  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56970) involving Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Tennessee: * * * Facility: Watts Bar Region: 2 State: TN Unit: [1] [2] [] RX Type: [1] W-4-LP,[2] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: Tyson Jones HQ OPS Officer: Kerby Scales Notification Date: 02/16/2024 Notification Time: 02:05 [ET] Event Date: 02/15/2024 Event Time: 22:24 [EST] Last Update Date: 02/21/2024 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Sect  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released final figures for 2023 that show Oak Ridge is maintaining its position as the national pacesetter for cleanup across the federal government. This is due in large part to a recent regulatory framework among the Oak Ride Office of Environmental Management (OREM), contractor UCOR, EPA and t  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In December 2023, San Francisco welcomed 25,000 researchers from across the globe to celebrate "Wide. Open. Science." at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting, AGU23. Among them were nearly 100 attendees from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, representing a variety of science areas, including environmental sciences, biology, national  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Feb. 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2024: A federal jury in Memphis recently delivered guilty verdicts in a case involving three members of the Traveling Vice Lords/Junk Yard Dogs (TVL/JYD) street gang. Tomarcus ("TC") Baskerville, 35, Thomas ("TJ") Smith, 24, and Courtland ("Hotbox") Springfield, 32, all of Fayette County, Tennessee, were convicted under the Racketeering Influenced an  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee issued the following news release: Two Nashville, Tennessee, men are facing federal charges after agents executed multiple search warrants, including a search warrant on a downtown Nashville high-rise apartment, and discovered evidence of large-scale narcotics distribution -- including more than four pounds of fentanyl, nearly thirty-five pounds of cocaine, approximately $350,000 in cash, and f  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory's managing contractor, UT-Battelle, presented a donation of $186,000 to Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development, or SEEED, to support the nonprofit's third green solar home as part of their Green Construction Program. "We are committed to serving the communities that we live in," UT-Battelle CEO and ORNL Director Stephen Streiffer sa  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs issued the following news release on Feb. 23, 2024: The Department of Veterans Affairs announced a new partnership with the Department of Defense to increase VA health care for Veterans in Tennessee and Kentucky. The forthcoming agreements allow Veterans to receive care at the Fort Campbell VA Clinic inside of the Blanchfield Army Community Hospital located on Fort Campbell Army Installation. Ensuring that Veterans have timely acce  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, Feb. 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release on Feb. 23, 2024: A Knoxville, Tennessee couple, who conspired with others to traffic heroin and methamphetamine into Lee County, Virginia, were sentenced today to lengthy prison terms. Billie Jo McGuire, 30, and her husband, Billy Justin King, 30, both pled guilty in October 2022 to one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or mo  more