ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, June 13 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Bradley Hicks, AEDC Public Affairs Arnold Engineering Development Complex Commander Col. Randel Gordon's arrival at Arnold Air Force Base evoked a feeling he experienced only one other time in his nearly 30-year Air Force career. The first time Gordon experienced the sentiment was in 2011 after he and his wife deboarded a plane in Honolulu, Hawaii, prior to the start of his Air Force assig  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 12, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, South Region - May 2024": * * * Area prices up 0.1 percent in May and 3.2 percent over the past year * * * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the South rose 0.1 percent in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The monthly increase in the  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed free data sets to estimate how much energy any building in the contiguous U.S. will use in 2100. These data sets provide planners a way to anticipate future energy needs as the climate changes. Considering only today's buildings, the team analyzed energy use and weather records dating back to 1980, identify  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, June 12 -- Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach issued the following news release: Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is leading a coalition of 17 states in a lawsuit against a Biden administration rule that allows temporary farm workers in the country on H-2A visas to unionize. Under federal law, American farm workers are prohibited from collective bargaining. "Once again, Joe Biden is putting America last. He's giving political benefits to foreign workers while American worke  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, June 12 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news: As part of a bipartisan coalition of 44 state and territory attorneys general, Attorney General Liz Murrill joined a letter sent by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) to Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) and U.S. House leadership endorsing the Child Exploitation and Artificial Intelligence Expert Commission Act of 2024. The Act was sponsored by Rep. Langworthy (R-NY) and co-sponsored  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Melissa Cregger, Andrea Delgado, Michael McGuire and Guannan Zhang all are successful researchers who work in different scientific fields of study: Cregger is an ecosystem ecologist; Delgado, a quantum physicist; McGuire, a materials physicist; and Zhang, a computational mathematician. Although their fields appear to have little in common, one thing they all share   more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, June 12 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on June 11, 2024: Attorney General Alan Wilson today led a bipartisan coalition of 44 state and territory attorneys general in a letter by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) to Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) and U.S. House leadership endorsing the Child Exploitation and Artificial Intelligence Expert Commission Act of 2024. The Act was sponsored by Rep. Langworthy (R-NY) and  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, June 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release on June 12, 2024: Michael Donivan White pled guilty today to federal charges related to the November 2021 murder of Big Stone Gap Police Officer Michael Chandler and a wide-ranging drug conspiracy. White, 36, of South Carolina, pled guilty today to eight counts in relation to the murder of Officer Chandler. Specifically, he pled guilty to one count of causing th  more