By MARGARET STAFFORD , Associated Press BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the same Indiana family, and they likely would not have been on the ill-fated trip but for a ticket mix-up. Tracy Beck, of Kansas City,…
By DENISE LAVOIE , By The Associated Press Duck boats like the one that sank in Branson, Missouri, killing 17 people, have a long history of safety problems and have been linked to the deaths of more than 40 people since 1999. The deadly sinking in Missouri brought back painful memories of a similar accident…
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — The country-and-western tourist town of Branson, Missouri, mourned Friday for more than a dozen sightseers who were killed when a duck boat capsized and sank in stormy weather in the deadliest such accident in almost two decades. Divers found four more bodies in Table Rock Lake, bringing the death toll to…
BRANSON, MO (AP) — The Latest on a deadly tourist boat accident in Missouri (all times local):3:25 p.m. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says emergency responders and civilian rescuers helped prevent an even worse tragedy after a duck boat capsized on a lake and killed 17 people. Parson spent Friday in the Branson area after the…
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — At least 13 people, including children, died after a boat carrying tourists capsized and sank on a lake during a thunderstorm in a country music mecca in southwest Missouri, authorities said Friday. Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Jason Pace said four people remain missing Friday after the Ride the Ducks boat…
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) — A police detective and an official with the U.S. Marshals Service are recovering after being shot by a suspect in southeast Missouri. KFVS-TV reports that the officers went to an apartment in Poplar Bluff Thursday to arrest a man wanted on a warrant. When the officers entered the apartment, the…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) A manslaughter charge has been filed in a street racing crash in March in which a St. Louis man was killed. The incident occurred March 4 in the 4000 block of Reavis Barracks Road in South St. Louis County when four cars were street racing and one of the cars collided with another…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Vice-President Mike Pence visited St. Louis on Thursday to promote the Administration’s tax cuts. The event was hosted by the non-profit group America First Policies at the St. Louis Marriott Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis.This was the 18th such event called “Tax Cuts To Put America First.” “More than six…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The white former interim police chief of St. Louis is alleging discrimination based on race in the selection of a permanent chief. Lt. Col. Lawrence O’Toole was among six finalists for the permanent job late last year. The job went to the only other internal candidate, John Hayden , who is…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) A St. Louis man is charged in two separate killings in the last two weeks, including the fatal shooting of a fellow passenger on a MetroBus this past weekend. St. Louis Police report 36-year-old Talib Ziyad is jailed without bond and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. He is accused of fatally…