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A long-ago reactor experiment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is getting new attention as a power source for the future.

George Ella Lyon, Kentucky's poet laureate, will read at the annual poetry reading during Carson-Newman University's homecoming.

OAK RIDGE — The uproar erupted in early January over concerns about high turnover and low morale in the police department and a police chief with an allegedly volatile, vindictive streak.

A Blount County man who escaped after briefly being captured by sheriff's deputies Thursday morning may still be in handcuffs, authorities said.

State Bomb and Arson investigators are asking for the public's help to solve two residential fires in Cocke County.

The whimsical Ms. Egg and Mr. Butter created by the owner of Magpies Bakery are an advertisement and cannot grace the roof above the Happy Holler cake shop, a city appeals panel ruled Thursday.

The whimsical Ms. Egg and Mr. Butter created by the owner of Magpies Bakery are an advertisement and cannot grace the roof above the Happy Holler cake shop just north of downtown, a city appeals panel ruled Thursday.

Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank wants to sit up on the dais with county commissioners and is also wanting to become the commission's chairman.

A former nurse has pleaded guilty to filing a false report in a case where he said he checked on an inmate's vitals but didn't, and the man died hours later.

The permit was approved by the Historic Zoning Commission Thursday morning, but must now be submitted to the city for OK.