OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Amid the challenges that the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility faced in assembling and launching the world's first exascale-class (more than a quintillion calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier, one key component was hitch-free. Integral to Frontier's functionality is its ability to store the vast amounts of data it produces   more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: In an effort to end horse soring at Tennessee Walking Horse shows, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing strengthened Horse Protection Act regulations. Soring is a cruel and inhumane practice where some owners and trainers chemically or physically irritate or burn horses t  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Helping hundreds of manufacturing industries across the United States increase energy efficiency requires a balance of teaching and training, blended with scientific guidance and technical expertise. It's a formula for success that researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been providing to the Department of Energy's Better Plants program for more than a dec  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board issued the following letter on April 29, 2024: * * * Department of Energy Activities Relating to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Fiscal Year 2023 Report to Congress April 2024 Message from the Secretary This is the U.S. Department of Energy's (Department or DOE), including the National Nuclear Security Administration, Fiscal Year 2023 annual report to Congress addressing the activities related to the Defense Nuc  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: GULFPORT, Miss. -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New Orleans officers initiated an investigation that led to the indictment of a convicted child sexual abuser. On April 23, a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging former Mexican citizen Felix Aguilar-Matias with naturalization an  more

ALBANY, New York, April 23 -- The New York State Public Service Commission issued the following order approving designation (Case No. 24-C-0043): * * * Petition of TruConnect Communications, Inc. for Designation as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier. ORDER APPROVING DESIGNATION AS AN ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER BY THE COMMISSION: INTRODUCTION By petition dated January 17, 2024, pursuant to Sec.214 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (47 U.S.C. Sec.214) and Public Serv  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: Cherokee County was the recent recipient of a Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP) grant that will provide significant funding to plan and design approximately 26 miles of trail associated with the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (OVVI) corridor and Carolina Thread Trail (CTT). The Federal Lands Access Program was created to improve state and local  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named W. David Pointer, director of the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division, or NEFCD in ORNL's Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate, or FFESD. As director, Pointer will lead a world-class team of ORNL research professionals focused on addressing the challenges and opportunities presented   more

GREENEVILLE, Tennessee, April 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee issued the following news release: On April 29, 2024, Terrance Lamont Hines, 42, of Kingsport, Tennessee, was sentenced to life in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, United States District Judge, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. During the sentencing hearing, Judge Greer determined that Hines was both an armed career criminal un  more

GREENEVILLE, Tennessee, April 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee issued the following news release: On April 29, 2024, Michael Wayne Bentley, III, 28, of Gray, Tennessee, was sentenced to 284 months of imprisonment by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, United States District Judge, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. Following his incarceration, Bentley will be on supervised release for five years. On D  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, April 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: John Christopher Spence, 67, of Huntington, was sentenced today to five years of federal probation, including six months on home detention with GPS monitoring, and fined $5,000 for making a false declaration in a bankruptcy case. According to court documents and statements made in court, on or about April 30, 2019, Spence filed f  more