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A 30-year-old Oak Ridge woman was taken into custody and to a hospital after barricading herself in a bedroom and mentioning suicide before throwing a pistol out a window while negotiating with police officers on Saturday morning. Oak Ridge Police were on the scene for hours before the situation at …

A Knoxville man died in a single vehicle accident on Old Emory Road in Claxton on Saturday afternoon. The crash was reported shortly before 2:30 pm Saturday at the intersection with Walnut Valley Road, just north of Bull Run Fossil Plant. The Tennessee Highway Patrol said 52-year-old Peter Bolen had …

The Comfort Inn in Oak Ridge will likely be closed through at least Tuesday for renovations after an early-morning fire on the fourth floor of the five-story hotel Saturday. The fire was reported at 5:15 a.m. Saturday in an air-conditioning unit in a window area at the end of the …

Wrapping up a busy weekend of local sports, let’s start with the culmination of the boys’ high school basketball season. Friday in Murfreesboro, in the AAA semifinals, Memphis East knocked off Blackman 46-41 and Cordova took out Station Camp 77-59. Saturday, Memphis East downed Cordova 64-60 for the state championship. …

Jimmie Johnson charged past Kevin Harvick coming out of an overtime restart and pulled away from the field Sunday at Auto Club Speedway, becoming the first repeat winner of the 2016 season. Johnson’s margin of victory was three-quarters of a second over Harvick, giving Chevrolet a sweep of the top …

Kyle Busch did not win his fourth straight X-FINITY Series race on Saturday afternoon at Auto Club Speedway. But another Sprint Cup Series driver – Austin Dillon – did find his way to Victory Lane. Busch has dominated the first month of the 2016 X-FINITY Series and seemed well on …

Wrapping up day two of the boy’s high school basketball state tournament in Murfreesboro, here are Thursday’s scores. In one Class A quarterfinal, Memphis Mitchell knocked off Middle Tennessee Christian 55-41 and Hampton defeated Clay County 80-70. In AA quarterfinal action, Fayette Ware eliminated Marshall County 78-72; Fulton held off …

Brush fires were reported in Anderson and Campbell counties on Thursday. The Medford Volunteer Fire Department responded to a brush fire on Foley Hill Road at around 4:30 pm Thursday afternoon and, with assistance from the Clinton Fire Department, were able to extinguish it in about three hours. No structures …

Meeting in their regular session on Thursday, the Oliver Springs Board of mayor and Aldermen voted 4-2 to appoint Cecil Crowe as the interim mayor, succeeding Jerry Vann, who abruptly resigned the post last month due to health issues. Crowe will serve as Oliver Springs mayor until the next municipal …

(Oak Ridge Today) Three people were injured in two unrelated crashes on Oliver Springs Highway in Marlow on Thursday. One vehicle overturned in the first crash, which occurred overnight, and two vehicles came close to going into a pond into the second, which happened Thursday afternoon. The first crash was …