Oak Ridge News

This week the News Sentinel launches a redesign of its two largest Web sites: knoxnews.com and govolsxtra.com . The sites will sport a new "look and feel" as well as new functionality.

One day after announcing her candidacy, the woman looking to become the state's next congressional representative continued her east Tennessee tour.

5 Current address: Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. E-mail: hanson@physics.auburn.edu Abstract.

A grin and bare-it-all musical comedy, 'The Full Monty,' which opens at 8 p.m., Friday, July 10, at the Oak Ridge Playhouse, tells the story of six out-of-work steel workers desperate to make enough money to keep their heads above water.

Manhattan Project A - A contributor is certain that his father worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.

If you want to get to Marian E. Oates' home, the directions are simple: Go to Sevier County to the foot of Bluff Mountain and turn up.

The Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences is taking shape at the foot of the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge and, according to ORNL spokesman Billy Stair, construction should be completed in April 2010.

The Department of Energy received a "boatload of money," as one Oak Ridge official so aptly put it earlier this year, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Abstract In this study, 148A 428 simple sequence repeat primer pairs were designed from the unambiguously mapped sequence scaffolds of the Nisqually-1 genome.

A former worker at a U.S. nuclear facility was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for trying to sell stolen uranium enrichment equipment.

On Thursday, in U.S. District Court in Knoxville,Tennessee, U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Varlan, Jr., sentenced Roy Lynn Oakley, 67, of Harriman, Tenn., to six years in prison for trying to sell parts of uranium enrichment equipment that he had stolen from a U.S. Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge.

The 7th Annual Secret City Festival is coming this weekend, from Friday, June 19, through Saturday, June 20, in Oak Ridge.

Chattanooga lawyer Chuck Fleischmann says he plans to seek the Republican nomination for Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District seat in 2010.

For years, Oak Ridge has relied on U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp to help keep those federal funds flowing.

A 51-year-old Clinton man died in a fiery crash involving excessive speed along Pellissippi Parkway, a spokeswoman said this morning.

Knox County Law Director Bill Lockett is accused of improperly taking more than $30,000 from clients of his former law firm in a disciplinary petition filed Tuesday with the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

The Tennessee Valley Authority may be the lead site for a new mini-nuclear power reactor.

Senate Republicans outlined a range of budget cuts Wednesday, from forgoing $62 million in federal stimulus money for solar projects to more than $12 million in social programs ranging from HIV/AIDS to infant mortality programs.

A Tennessee site is being considered for construction of a new generation of smaller, modular nuclear energy plants, a Tennessee Valley Authority official said Wednesday at a news conference to introduce the new power plant design.

Morehead State University associate head coach Barry Wortman was named head basketball coach at Oak Ridge High School this morning.