Oak Ridge News

A breakdown of the Roane County shoot-out, based on testimony so far: 8 shots by Clifford Leon Houston from a .45-caliber Glock pistol 22 shots by Rocky Joe Houston from a 7.62 mm Maadi semi-automatic rifle 15 ...

A former co-worker of Leon Houston testified Thursday about a discussion he had with Leon several months before the shootout that took the life of a Roane County deputy and his friend.

Local pediatrician Dr. Cliff James of Kids Central Pediatrics in Oak Ridge discusses the remedies and myths of this nasty plant.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Motorists across the South, including Arkansas, could soon be sharing the highway with nuclear waste generated decades ago in developing the first atomic bomb.

The announcement of Anheuser-Busch's takeover by a giant Belgian brewer is raising questions over the fate of its Virginia properties, including the Busch Gardens theme park.

Workers have been evacuated from a former uranium enrichment plant in Tennessee after yellow smoke was seen coming out of a ventilation stack.

The U.S. Attorney's Office is turning to legal dynamite to try to blast a suspended Knoxville attorney out of the case of a former Oak Ridge janitor accused of selling uranium-enrichment equipment to the French ...

The Cherokee Caverns in Oak Ridge were once a hot tourist attraction, but they are now closed following several acts of vandalism and a fire.

Family members tell 6 News that Knoxville City Councilman Steve Hall is recovering, but still in a "lot of pain." Hall was injured after a motorcycle accident in Anderson County Friday night.

A new ruling includes the Office of Scientific and Technical Information building in Oak Ridge on the list of "covered" facilities for the sick nuclear workers compensation program.

The East Tennessee Veterans Business Conference will once again be held this year in Oak Ridge.

Planar Energy Devices’ Scott Faris holds a block of eight film batteries in the company’s Michigan Avenue offices.

It's the icing on the Fourth of July many can't imagine the holiday without. "It's like apple pie and baseball, it's just so ingrained in our culture," Rachel Elwell of Oak Ridge said.

Investigators in Oak Ridge want to know who broke into more than a dozen businesses overnight.

Festivities marked the success Thursday of a fund-raising effort and the start of an ambitious subdivision for Anderson County's low-income families.

Fourteen of 15 businesses in an Oak Ridge office building were forcibly entered sometime Wednesday night or early this morning, Officer Mike Swigert said.

Radioactive waste resulting from decades of research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is being prepared for shipment to Utah for long-term storage.

Keith Joy, the small business program manager at ORNL, won M&O program manager of the year at the Dept.

Jay Leggett, Mitch Rouse, David Pasquesi and Michael Coleman play four workers in the new sitcom"Factory." The show premiers Sunday on Spike TV.

'A man told me, 'They have the smartest people in the world out there in Oak Ridge, but there's not a one of them who knows what it is that they're doing.'' One of Tennessee's best-kept secrets is the aptly ...