Oak Ridge News

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 vehicle.

An Oak Ridge woman with an extensive criminal record has pleaded guilty to two counts of violation of the state's Social Host Law by allegedly playing "beer pong," a drinking game, with her underage son and three other juveniles.

State Representative John Ragan, Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank, Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan, City of Oak Ridge Public Works Employee Pat Fallon, Governor Haslam, State Senator Randy McNally, and State Representative Kent Calfee.

Protomet Corporation broke ground to mark the start of the construction for the $6.25 million facility expansion at its corporate location on Larson Dr. in Oak Ridge's Bethel Valley Commerce Park on June 14, 2013.

J. MILES CARY/NEWS SENTINEL Ben Atchley Street is being closed at the request of Anthropologie, a new retail store that will open in an empty building fronting Kingston Pike.

Lavender Festival today: The Lavender Festival will be held 8 a.m.-3 p.m. today at Historic Jackson Square in Oak Ridge.

While the Oak Ridger building has been sold, the five-day-a-week newspaper, a fixture in the Atomic City for 64 years, will continue to publish, the publisher said Friday.

It's a celebration of herbs, it's in its 15th year, and it's in the original heart of this formerly secret city.

The latest rendering of the Uranium Processing Facility, the multibillion-dollar production facility to be constructed at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge.

SAUL YOUNG/NEWS SENTINEL Jay Searcy poses at the Bearden Banquet Hall on Wednesday.

Greenwire reported that Moniz called the site, where leaks have been discovered in six tanks storing radioactive waste, one of the "most challenging" in the Department of Energy's portfolio of Cold War-era facilities that need to be cleaned up, a job he called a "legal and moral imperative."

A high-profile but dilapidated building in a busy commercial area faces either a date with a wrecking ball or significant repairs following action Thursday by a city board.

A new $800,000 data center on the Oak Ridge High School campus houses all of the critical systems used to operate Oak Ridge Schools, including phones, email, Internet access and file storage, officials said.

The report also said the chief and the town's former mayor signed a back-dated lease agreement for the machine after citizens questioned why it was there.

A break in a pipe carrying chlorinated water at the government's nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge has caused a fish kill.

A waterline rupture at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant resulted in a fish kill over the weekend, with the death toll estimated at about 8,500, a plant spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Yet another security breakdown at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant raises concerns that what is supposed to be one of the most secure national security facilities in the country is not safe.

A new principal has been appointed at Central High School, and he joined Knox County Schools from the Oak Ridge school system.

Masengale, 42, was captured in Anderson County this morning, a few hours after he swiped the keys to a police cruiser and escaped, according to Chief Deputy Chris Holland of the Bledsoe County Sheriff's Department.

Y-12 officials have removed three security guards and a supervisor from their positions after a woman was allowed to drive onto the property Thursday morning.