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AUDIO Pilot Flying J fraud victim talks guilty pleas

pleaded guilty Tuesday in a federal case tied to the on-going fraud investigation into the company. The development marks a total of five guilty pleas in the case. Kevin Wallace Clark was among the three who pleaded guilty Tuesday. Clark handled an account for W.N. Morehouse Truck Line in Nebraska, the same company featured in ...
UT trustees will consider fracking proposal

The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees in October will take up a plan to lease the natural gas rights on the 8,600-acre Cumberland Forest in Morgan and Scott counties. The board will hear details of the plan before the university goes to the State Building Commission with a contract with a private company for the gas drilling, UT President Joe DiPietro said in a message Friday to ...
Crash involving semi slows traffic in West Knoxville

A crash a little before noon Tuesday created delays for some drivers in West Knoxville. The wreck happened at I-640 Westbound near I-40. It involved a semi-truck and a sedan. A 10News viewer reported waiting in traffic for an hour. By 1:00pm, crews had cleared the accident scene. At this time, there is no information on possible injuries of the drivers involved in the ...
Four 18-wheelers van Jaguar crash on I-75

A multi-vehicle crash involving four 18-wheelers, a mini-van and Jaguar car shut-down all lanes of Interstate 75 South in Kentucky Tuesday morning. The wreck happened around 7:30 a.m. at milemarker 1 near the Tennessee/Kentucky state line. Deputies on-scene told ...
Campbell mayor quashes email that animal center director to be reinstated tonight

The Campbell County mayor has no plans to reinstate embattled animal shelter director Betty Crumley during a meeting tonight in LaFollette, officials ...

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The Thirteenth Floor

There have been a number of American films in the last few years that have been built on the notion of questioning What is reality? These include "Dark City," which played with the idea of implanted memories, "The Truman Show," which gave us a TV studio masquerading as the real world, and, most recently, "The Matrix," with its alien-imposed, prison-like virtual world. What these films have ... ...

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Knoxville Frontier flight bomb threat suspect officially charged

(Denver, AP) A Colorado man who acted nervously and told a flight attendant there was a bomb in his backpack on a flight from Knoxville, Tennessee to Denver has been charged in federal court. Mark Michael Bote of Thornton was arrested Friday after the Frontier Airlines flight landed. Federal prosecutors announced Tuesday that the 23-year-old has been charged with giving a false report. ...
UPDATE Three additional PilotFlying J employees plead guilty

(Knoxville, WBIR) Three additional Pilot/Flying J employees pleaded guilty Tuesday in a federal case tied to the on-going fraud investigation into the company. Kevin Wallace Clark, Jay Stinnett and Holly Radford pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Clark faces five years in prison, three years supervised release and a $250,000 fine along with restitution. Stinnett faces 20 years ...
Authorities Suspect in chase tried to hit cruisers crashed into two vehicles

KINGSTON -- Authorities Tuesday continued to search for a 21-year-old man who almost struck police cruisers during a high-speed chase and eluded capture after crashing a stolen pickup into two vehicles in Oak Ridge, injuring passengers in one ...
Online extra Kevin Clark affidavit conversation

On November 28, 2012, CHS-2 engaged in a consensually recorded conversation with Pilot Regional Sales Manager Kevin Clark regarding Rebate Fraud and Discount Fraud: CLARK: And here's another one that's--and I don't know what to do 'bout this--but fuckin' this, W .M. Moorehouse is still, this is the one that Brian was screwin'. He caught him screwin' him, we ...
Toddler 2 found playing alone on railroad tracks parents charged

ROCKWOOD -- The parents of a 2-year-old boy found playing alone on railroad tracks wearing only a diaper were arrested Monday and charged with aggravated child abuse and ...

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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. ...