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Pilot fraud victim wants prison for sales director

three additional Pilot Flying J employees pleaded guilty in a federal case tied to the ongoing investigation of the fuel company for rebate fraud. So far a total of five Pilot Flying J employees have pleaded guilty to charges related to the rebate fraud scheme. Kevin Wallace Clark was among the three who pleaded guilty Tuesday. Clark handled an account for W.N. Morehouse Truck Line in ...
Campbell Co. holds first animal advisory meeting since shelter closed

Dozens of people gathered at the LaFollette City Hall for the Campbell County animal advisory meeting Tuesday evening. The Adrian Baird Animal Center was closed in April after allegations that animals were being improperly euthanized. Shelter director Betty Crumley was ...
May tourism up in the Smokies

Tourism in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for this May was up 10.5 percent compared to last year. Almost 900,000 people visited the park this May, which is the highest number for the month of May on record. However, visitation for the January through May period is almost six percent below average this ...
Worlds Fair Park talks start among Knoxville developers UT and city staff

Cousins William Ross, left, and Ella Ross play on the tire swing at the playground at World's Fair Park on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The World's Fair Park Working Group met today to discuss potential for the park to be a center for cultural resources. (SAUL YOUNG/NEWS ...
Teachers learn new strategies to teach to higher standards

For Sabrina Osborne, who has been teaching first grade for three years, the thought of changing how she teaches her students because of new, rigorous standards is a lot to ...

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The Pixar Story

There are few success stories in modern Hollywood like that of Pixar Animation Studios, and Leslie Iwerks' hagiographic documentary The Pixar Story chronicles it with enthusiastic detail and a well-rounded slate of interview subjects. If the ... ...

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4 minors charged with theft of large flag

Four people are facing charges following the theft of an American flag from a veterans' memorial in Monroe County. The 60 by 30-foot flag was taken on Memorial Day from the veterans' memorial in Madisonville. Officers ...
June showers keep dropping on Knoxville

J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel Marshall West and his twin 5-year-old sons, Jackson, left, and Pruitt, brave the rain as they head to watch the new Superman movie ';Man of Steel'; on Tuesday at Knoxville Center ...
63 cited at Tenn. underage drinking party

More than five dozen people are facing charges in West Tennessee after an underage drinking party thrown by a 19-year-old got out of hand. It happened at a home in Jackson. Madison County deputies say they responded to a noise complaint early Sunday morning at the home of James and Sara Hardwick. Investigators say the couple knew their 19-year-old son, Christopher Hardwick, was hosting a ...
Bonnaroo speeding tickets down 90 percent this year

More people took their time getting to Bonnaroo this year than last. Over the course of the six days of patrol for the event, troopers worked 17 car wrecks, down from 29 last year. This year 22 people were pulled over for speeding, down more than 90 percent from last year, when officers handed out 276 tickets. This year authorities arrested nine people for driving under the ...
Possible changes coming to Worlds Fair Park

(WBIR - Knoxville) The Sunsphere is Knoxville's most iconic landmark, and it sits in the middle of another popular attraction, World's Fair Park. "The park has evolved into a really beautiful area," said Marianne Greene, who owns Foundry on the Fair Site, which sits on an acre of land inside the World's Fair Park. Greene said she's seen some major improvements ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Paihia Beach Resort And Spa, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

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New sulfur-based battery outperforms traditional lithium-ion technology

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics.

The ORNL battery design, which uses abundant low-cost elemental sulfur, also addresses flammability concerns experienced by other chemistries.

"Our approach is a complete change from the current battery concept of two electrodes joined by a liquid electrolyte, which has been used over the last 150 to 200 years," said Chengdu Liang, lead author on the ORNL study published this week in Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Scientists have been excited about the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries for decades, but long-lasting, large-scale versions for commercial applications have proven elusive. Researchers were stuck with a catch-22 created by the battery's use of liquid electrolytes: On one hand, the liquid helped conduct ions through the battery by allowing lithium polysulfide compounds to dissolve. The downside, however, was that the same dissolution process caused the battery to prematurely break down.

The ORNL team overcame these barriers by first synthesizing a never-before-seen class of sulfur-rich materials that conduct ions as well as the lithium metal oxides conventionally used in the battery's cathode. ...