Oak Ridge News

Barry Thacker, president of Coal Creek Watershed Foundation, explains the history of the Coal Creek War during a ceremony Friday at the site of Fort Anderson on Militia Hill.

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From left, Greg Boertje-Obed, Sister Megan Rice, and Michael Walli. In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism.

Ryan Hill, 5, son of Oak Ridge Police Department Sgt. John Hill, stands next to his dad following Wednesday's Peace Officer Memorial Day ceremony in front of the Oak Ridge Municipal Building.

One of the intriguing stretches of last week's federal trial of Y-12 protesters was the back-to-back testimony of Sgt.

The TBI and local sheriff's deputies arrested James Wylie, 54, after he was indicted in the homicide case last week.

Although City Council passed in a 5-2 decision Monday night a new budget on first reading that keeps the tax rate unchanged for the next fiscal year, details of the proposal remain in sharp dispute.

On April 11 the Oak Ridge High School Community Foundation kicked off its 2013 Excellence in Education Capital Campaign.

"We're here fighting every day," Shelly Wascom, a longtime organizer with the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance said as people from fifteen states, and as far away as Arizona and Vermont, gathered at the First Presbyterian Church in Knoxville in support of the Transform Now! Plowshares.

For many Nashvillians, the town of Oak Ridge, Tenn., is something of an enigma. We know it was a place the federal government built in World War II to help with the Manhattan Project -- and it has been an environmental nightmare ever since.

A judge has ruled that a nun and two other protesters must remain in jail until they are sentenced in September for breaking into a nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee.

Deborah Scaperoth of Lenoir City received the Sue Ellen Hudson Excellence in Writing Award at the Tennessee Mountain Writers annual conference in April for her entry "After Reading Hunger Games in the Monastery." The entry had earned Scaperoth first place honors in the Poetry category.

Kelly Hunt is awake and mouthing words, more than a month after being wounded in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

Dolly Parton was in Pigeon Forge on Friday to open two new attractions at Dollywood.

The Funk family will host a day of remembrance at Faith Promise Church Sunday, May 12, for Derek.

About 100 people were briefly evacuated Friday morning after a pickup struck a gas meter at an apartment complex, rupturing a 2-inch natural gas line, Oak Ridge firefighters said.

Business, community, and political leaders and senior decision-makers will convene at the 2013 Tennessee Valley Corridor Summit to discuss issues that are critical to the economic engine of the Tennessee Valley.

An elderly nun and two other peace activists will be sentenced in September on their convictions for damaging a Tennessee defense facility where enriched uranium for nuclear bombs is stored, a federal judge said on Thursday.

From the Flying Nun to Maria Von Trapp, nuns have always been just a bit more badass than the average ascetic.

Billboards and posters extolling patriotism and discretion were found throughout the United States during World War II.