Purple Heart winner seriously injured

The community is rallying around a Whitman County volunteer firefighter and Purple Heart recipient who was seriously injured last week in crash near Colfax.

The Pullman resident, Richard Carson, is currently being treated at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane and will likely require several operations.

“He’s had surgery on his neck and right arm,” Carson’s close friend Eric Gibson said. “Both of those went really well, like they were supposed to”/ Taylor Nadauld , Moscow-Pullman Daily News. More here.