WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command issued the following news: By Kaitlyn Newsum The Tennessee Valley Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association recognized six Soldiers, civilians and teams from the Army Materiel Command workforce during its annual awards dinner April 23 in Huntsville. The NDIA-TVC presented leadership, management and technology awards to the following AMC personnel and teams: * Col. Wheeler Manning, Leadership Exc  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release May 7, 2024: The Department of Defense today announced the selection of seven DoD-university faculty teams to pursue fundamental social science research through the FY 2023 Defense Education and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership, a program under the department's Minerva Research Initiative. DECUR aims to develop collaborative relationships between Defense Professional Military Education institu  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following order (WC Docket No. 09-197) on May 7, 2024: * * * In the Matter of Telecommunications Carriers Eligible for Universal Service Support, Petition for Limited Designation as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in the states of Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New York, Tennessee, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia ORDER   more

LEXINGTON, Tennessee, May 9 -- The Department of Housing and Urban Development issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Multifamily Housing Programs, announced it has completed a $750,000 grant transaction under the Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP) with Wesley Living of Tennessee. The transaction will be used to finance energy efficiency and climate resilient renovations of the Woodland Homes apart  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: The Department of Labor today announced strategic changes to the structure of its Occupational Safety and Health Administration's regional operations designed to direct its resources effectively and make the agency more resilient. The changes include the creation of a new OSHA regional office in Birmingham, Alabama, overseeing agency operations in   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using a machine-learning model to answer 'what if' questions stemming from major events that impact large numbers of people. By simulating an event, such as extreme weather, researchers can see how people might respond to adverse situations, and those outcomes can be used to improve emergency p  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Robots revolutionized the manufacturing industry by automating assembly lines. Now, more and more, they are being used to expedite the pace of scientific discovery. Neutron scattering instruments are like giant high-powered microscopes that use beams of neutrons to study materials at the atomic scale. The BIO-SANS instrument, located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, May 8 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: Attorney General Alan Wilson led a 24-state coalition in a letter to Congressional leadership, urging Congress to permanently cut all funding to the terrorist-embedded United Nations Relief and Works Agency ("UNRWA"). On October 7, 2023, dozens of UNRWA staff participated in the largest attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust. UNRWA's ties to terrorism are not just the work of a  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Nearly 1,000 people from across the United States attended Safety Fest TN last week to take advantage of free safety and health training. The four-day event offered more than 130 courses, seminars and demonstrations on a wide range of topics. "We have everything from CPR and automated external defibrillator training to high-end electrical  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Local decision-makers looking for ways to reduce the impact of heat waves on their communities have a valuable new capability at their disposal: a new study on vegetation resilience. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory completed a study of how well vegetation survived extreme heat events in both urban and rural communities across th  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, May 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release: A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee, returned an eight-count indictment today charging former Memphis Police Officer Patric J. Ferguson with federal civil rights, kidnapping and weapons offenses in connection with the fatal shooting of a victim identified as R.H. The indictment also charges Ferguson and a civilian, Joshua M. Rogers, with federal offenses f  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 9 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on May 8, 2024: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter to U.S. Congressional leaders, calling on the federal legislative branch to "stop funding United Nations Relief and Works Agency." The letter, which was led by the States of Iowa and South Carolina, issues its demand over the agency's continued and troubling ties to the terror organization Hamas. This letter, sent on May 7, follows a simila  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, May 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release: A Bristol, Tennessee man who conspired with others, including a man incarcerated in Georgia, to distribute multiple kilograms of methamphetamine was sentenced last week to 180 months in federal prison. Michael Paul Brown, 39, pled guilty in November 2023 to one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute more than 500 grams of meth  more