Nov 8, 2009 7:01 pm US/Central
Sunday, November 8, 2009
(AP)
The three Wisconsin soldiers injured in last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood continue to recover, although their future deployment plans remain unclear.
Dawn Freiburger represents the family of Army Private First Class Amber Bahr. The 19-year-old from Random Lake was shot in the back Thursday.
Freiburger says Bahr's battalion will be deploying to Afghanistan in January as planned, but she won't say whether Bahr will be joining it.
Twenty-eight-year-old Specialist John Pagel (PAY'-gel) of Denzer was shot through the left biceps. His wife, Kandie Pagel, said Sunday she didn't know whether his unit would still head to Afghanistan next month as planned.
Twenty-three-year-old Army Reserve Specialist Grant Moxon of Lodi was shot in the leg.
Two Wisconsin soldiers were killed.
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Green Bay man tries to save at-risk freighter
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The nephew of a man who perished on the shipwrecked Edmund Fitzgerald is trying to save an endangered Great Lakes freighter whose crew at the time tried to help the doomed ship.
The Arthur M. Anderson was trailing the the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975. Its crew risked their own safety by turning back into the storm after the Fitzgerald disappeared from the radar screen.
The Anderson and 12 other steamships are in danger of being forced to permanent shore duty by a proposed clear-air rule from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. U.S. Rep. David Obey is trying to push through an exemption, but John Soyring of Green Bay is worried it would just be a stay of execution.
Soyring will be at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point this Tuesday, the 34th anniversary of the disaster, to rally support for the Anderson during a memorial service. His uncle, Oliver Champeau of Sturgeon Bay, was third engineer on the Fitzgerald.
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Information from: Green Bay Press-Gazette, http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com
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Madison man killed after motorcycle strikes car
MONTROSE, Wis. (AP) — A Madison man is identified as the victim of a motorcyle crash near the town of Montrose.
The Dane County Sheriff's Office says deputies found 60-year-old James Carratt lying on the highway about 5 p.m. Saturday. They say a Toyota Camry pulled into the path of his Honda motorcycle.
Carratt was pronounced dead at the scene. He was not wearing a helmet. The driver of the car was wearing a seat belt and was not injured.
The crash is under investigation.
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