PLYMOUTH, Wis. (AP) -- The Camo Quilt Project in Plymouth is on a mission for a Kiel woman killed in the Fort Hood shootings.

Coordinator Linda Wieck tells WLUK-TV that Sgt. Amy Krueger asked for 45 camouflage quilts for her unit in September.

But Camo Quilt was already behind more than 200 requests for other soldiers. And making 45 blankets before the unit is deployed overseas in December would be impossible with only three of the usual volunteers.

But Wieck says when people heard about Krueger, hundreds of volunteers stepped up from as far away as Milwaukee and Madison. Krueger was among 13 killed in the Nov. 5 shooting.

Wieck says Krueger had already received a quilt from her and sent her a thank you note and requested the new batch.

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MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) - The Manitowoc County sheriff's department is investigating the death of a 50-year-old woman found Saturday by hunters.

The sheriff's department says deputies received a call around 5:15 a.m. that a group of hunters found a woman's body in some Town of Cooperstown woods and didn't know if she was alive.

Deputies are treating the death as a homicide. The department says investigators conducted a search warrant Saturday and found a possible suspect.

The woman is from the Green Bay area and deputies think she had been there for less than 24 hours.

An autopsy is planned for Monday.

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PARK FALLS, Wis. (AP) - Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands.

For centuries, forests have provided lumber to build cities, pulp for paper mills and a refuge for hunters, fishers and hikers. A flurry of new, green ventures is fueling demand for trees and the debris leftover when they are harvested, which is called waste wood or woody biomass.

"There simply is nowhere near enough waste wood for all of these biomass projects that are popping up all over the place," said Marvin Roberson, a forest policy specialist with the Sierra Club in Michigan.

Waste wood has become a sought-after commodity, prompting concerns that the demand might overwhelm supply and damage the ecosystem. But government officials say there's plenty available and they point to guidelines that are aimed at maintaining tree debris to give the soil nutrients.

Many biomass projects are tied to the forests that extend across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and part of Ontario. Among them is Flambeau River Papers, a mill in Park Falls, Wis., that emerged from bankruptcy three years ago and is pinning its hopes for profitability on generating its own heat with woody biomass.

In another Wisconsin town 50 miles away, a power company is switching from burning coal to producing combustible gas from logging leftovers. And in Michigan's neighboring Upper Peninsula, a plant under development called Frontier Renewable Resources will convert timber into 40 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year.

Researchers led by University of Minnesota forest expert Dennis Becker reported this summer that many would-be investors are uneasy about supplies of waste wood.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A state lab is facing a backlog of nearly 1,000 blood samples from suspected intoxicated drivers.

The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene is now taking five to seven months to determine if drivers had drugs such as cocaine or Valium in their system. It's due to stagnant staffing levels and a caseload that has increased nearly 90 percent since a 2003 change in state law.

That law says drivers are guilty of driving while intoxicated if they have any detectable amount of illegal drugs such as methamphetamine or marijuana in their system. Prosecutors previously had to prove the defendant's driving was actually impaired by the drugs.

Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard tells the Wisconsin State Journal that the backlog wastes time for courts, prosecutors and public defenders and puts the public at risk.

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Information from: Wisconsin State Journal, http://www.madison.com/wsj

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