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Economy, ash spill mean no TVA executive bonuses

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee Valley Authority's top executives were told Thursday during a meeting in Kentucky not to expect performance bonuses this year because of a drop in electricity sales due to the poor economy and the massive coal ash spill at ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tennessee Valley Authority,  Kingston Fossil Plant

Tenn. community buries soldier killed at Fort Hood

MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn.—Defense Secretary Robert Gates gathered with mourners on a cold, windy morning in a tiny northeast Tennessee community to bury Army Spc. Fred Greene, one of 13 soldiers killed in the massacre at Fort Hood. Gates sat behind the ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Gates,  The Pentagon,  Arlington National Cemetery

Science-based US supercomputer fastest in world

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet - climate change, renewable energy, new medicines - rather than advances in nuclear weapons that ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Buffalo News,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jaguar,  National Science Foundation,  Cray Inc,  Los Alamos National Laboratory,  IBM

Tenn. supercomputer running fastest in world for climate change, renewable energy

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet — climate change, renewable energy, new medicines — rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Simple Thoughts,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jaguar,  National Science Foundation,  Cray Inc,  Los Alamos National Laboratory,  IBM

TVA prepares to start smokestack scrubbers

KINGSTON, Tenn. - Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream for a site still engaged in a $1 billion cleanup from a massive ash spill. ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency

Man sentenced to death in US torture slaying

A Tennessee man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a young couple has been sentenced to death. The 28-year-old defendant, Lemaricus Davidson, showed no reaction Friday as jurors announced the sentence for the murders of 21-year-old ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Taiwan News,  31 Oct 2009

Man sentenced to death in Tenn. torture slaying

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A Tennessee man convicted of kidnapping, rape and murder charges in the fatal carjacking of a couple on a date has been sentenced to death. ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  30 Oct 2009

Man convicted in slayings of Tennessee couple

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -The man accused of being the ringleader of a carjacking that turned into the rapes and murders of a Tennessee couple was convicted Wednesday on nearly all counts, and now faces the chance of the death penalty. ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Man convicted in Tennessee couple's slayings

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A jury has convicted the accused ringleader in the carjacking and murders of a young Tennessee couple on a date. ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  28 Oct 2009

TVA to buy 450 megawatts from Dakota wind turbines

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Valley Authority, looking outside the region for major quantities of renewable energy, has agreed to buy 450 megawatts from two wind farms in North and South Dakota. ...

From DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Tennessee Valley Authority

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