_Monday 8-18-08 news item:
CONSTANTINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- An 85-year-old man from St. Joseph County has drowned after his tractor overturned into an irrigation reservoir.
Radio station WMSH reports Forest Hassenger of Constantine Township was clearing land on his tractor Sunday morning when he got too close to the reservoir's edge. The tractor tipped over, and he was trapped underneath it in the water.
Authorities recovered Hassenger's body Sunday afternoon.
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CONSTANTINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- An 85-year-old man from St. Joseph County has drowned after his tractor overturned into an irrigation reservoir.
Radio station WMSH reports Forest Hassenger of Constantine Township was clearing land on his tractor Sunday morning when he got too close to the reservoir's edge. The tractor tipped over, and he was trapped underneath it in the water.
Authorities recovered Hassenger's body Sunday afternoon.
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