Missing Blount Co. woman
A body found in Illinois may be a missing East Tennessee woman.
Seventy-two-year-old Frances Graham went missing earlier this year. Her boyfriend’s son, Art Dockery, told police that both he and Graham were kidnapped but that he had managed to escape their captors.
Detectives in the case have filed a false reporting charge against Dockery.
The woman’s body was found near Metropolis, Ill. and investigators are working to compare medical and dental records with Graham’s to determine if they are, in fact her remains.
Dockery’s cell phone records put him in the Mount Vernon, Ill. area near the time Graham had gone missing.
Dockery is being held on non-related domestic violence charges.

Disgruntled cop invokes standoff with police
Local police in Monroe County were involved in a standoff Saturday night with a former police officer.
Local authorities have said that the suspect is a former Englewood officer who threatened suicide after being fired that day.
Local police, Blount County SWAT and Tennessee state police went to the suspect’s house after he had threatened suicide. The suspect reportedly fired on the responding officers holding officers at bay for several hours before being taken into custody.

East Knoxville murder
A Knoxville man was shot and killed Saturday night in an argument over a cell phone.
Joshua Underwood was shot at the Super Wash Laundromat on Central Avenue in Knoxville.
Police have said that Underwood had been in an argument earlier that day with Jackie Foster. The two had decided to meet at the laundry mat to settle their dispute.
Foster is in police custody, held on murder charges.

TennCare extension
TennCare recipients who have been disenrolled will be receiving six more months of prescription benefits as a part of a “safety net” transition program.
Disenrollees will be receiving the free medication for another six months, extended until June 30, 2006.
The transition program has been providing specific drugs such as insulin and diabeties medication to recipients.

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