Oak Ridge News

The Oak Ridge Boys, with their signature hit "Elvira" in tow, will return to the Abilene Civic Center July 22, just over a year since their last visit.

A man who was considering a run for Roane County property assessor is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Mrs. Kaye Evans-Rackard moved to Farragut in 1949 from Oak Ridge. Her daughter Barbara was born in Jamestown, Tenn.

A state-created, federally funded venture capital fund that aims to spur investments into high-growth companies has invested $4.4 million in five business ventures in Tennessee.

Lloyd Blackwood, 95, and his wife, Barbara Blackwood, check out his interview that's part of the Center for Oak Ridge Oral History during Tuesday's reception.

University of Tennessee women's basketball head coach emeritus Pat Summitt will be one of the recipients Tuesday of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a White House ceremony.

While you're enjoying the pool, area lakes and the sun this Summer, your sunscreen may not be living up to the protection promised.

"A lot of games really just sharpen up skills and what theyire doing is using that part of the brain to process," says Mike OiHern, Director of Mathnasium of West Knoxville.

In 1985, an Oak Ridge man lost his class ring at work. Keith Parker never thought he'd see it again, until a neighbor discovered it 27 years later.

A man nabbed as he tried to escape through a rear bedroom window Thursday later admitted he had cooked methamphetamine in the residence hours earlier, according to an arrest warrant.

With traditional ink-on-paper journalism in a state of flux, some have been setting their sights toward Internet news publishing.

A 19-year-old man accused of stealing more than $5,000 in jewelry from his mom and then selling the items for $585 was arrested Wednesday and remains in the Anderson County Jail today in lieu of $25,000 bond.

The doors were locked Wednesday night at Scott County's only hospital, ending decades of service for some doctors, nurses and other staff.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are on the line in hopes of turning grass into fuel.

It's been open for nearly a month, but Wednesday Oak Ridge officially opened the fourth phase of a popular trail.

Helen and Len Fuller, at left, look over maps of the Oak Ridge greenways network with Josh Collins, the city's director of parks and recreation, just before the official opening of the city's newest greenway Wednesday.

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IMPACT Services, a nuclear waste processing company, reportedly closed its Oak Ridge business on Friday, and state officials were at the scene Monday to make sure the radioactive waste housed there - estimated at 1 million pounds - was in a safe and secure condition.

Bainbridge Island Rowing Club's lightweight varsity 8 won a U.S. Rowing Northwest Junior District Championship on Saturday in Vancouver, qualifying for the U.S. Rowing Youth National Championship in Oak Ridge, Tenn., on June 8. The girls in the boat were Kate Hathaway, Hannah Marsing, Makaila O'Brien, Isabelle Staff, Annika Torseth, Deni Murray, ... (more)

With the kick of a snare and the warbling sound of bagpipes echoing through the streets, the Smoky Mountain Highland Games were officially kicked off in downtown Maryville Friday night.