Tennessee Valley Summit returns to Oak Ridge; energy, manufacturing on agenda
Third District Rep. Chuck Fleischmann has announced the Tennessee Valley Corridor National Summit will be held the last week of May and return to the site where it started 18 years ago—Oak Ridge. The...
View ArticleORPD receives about $70,000 seized in drug trafficking investigation
The Oak Ridge Police Department was one of 19 local and state law enforcement agencies that received part of $4.1 million in cash seized during a 2011 investigation of a Mexican drug trafficking...
View ArticleGreat Smoky Mountains National Park open again
Information from WYSH Radio Great Smoky Mountains National Park officially reopened on Thursday, Oct. 17, under federal funding. The park had been closed for the first two weeks of October during the...
View ArticleReport: Woman who fell into fountain and died had been ‘huffing,’ witness says
The 26-year-old woman who fell into a fountain at the Oak Ridge Civic Center on June 3 and died in a hospital 13 days later had been spotted “huffing” a can of keyboard cleaner next to a tree in the...
View ArticleLetter: Legislature’s inaction on Medicaid has life-and-death consequences
To the Editor: Some years ago, we cruised around on a small sailboat in the Pamlico Sound in North Carolina and spent one stormy night at the dock in Belhaven, N.C. So we perked up when we saw the...
View ArticleWinter storm warning in effect for mountains, heavy snowfall possible
A winter storm warning is in effect in the mountains of East Tennessee, southwest Virginia, and western North Carolina from Friday to Saturday night, and up to 15 inches of snow is possible at...
View ArticleScout.com: Higgins a top playmaker in Class of 2017 in Tennessee
Sports website Scout.com calls Oak Ridge Wildcats wide receiver Tee Higgins a top playmaker in the Volunteer State’s 2017 class. “Tee Higgins can make a profound case of being the best wide receiver...
View ArticleHistoric day for same-sex couples: ‘Long, hard battle that love won’
KINGSTON—They didn’t intend to make history, but they did. Two women, Brandy Horn and Ann Spencer, became the first couple to receive a same-sex marriage license in Roane County. They picked it up at...
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