WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FRANKFORT, Ky. A new policy streamlines the process of applying for disaster assistance. Survivors now have the option to apply for a low-interest SBA loan when they apply for FEMA assistance. FEMA no longer requires disaster survivors to apply for an SBA loan before being considered for FEMA individual assistance for the most recent disasters, including Kentuck  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: Once upon a time, the Teton Range, a 40-mile-long mountain range in the northern Rocky Mountains, may have extended much longer than it does now. A U.S. National Science Foundation-funded team thinks it might know what happened to it. The team, led by University of Kentucky professors Ryan Thigpen and Mike McGlue, along with Ed Woolery, Summer Brown and Kevin Yeager, is testing a hypothesis that   more