Branson, MO (KTRS) Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the deadly duck boat tragedy in Branson. The tour boat sank after a severe storm swept over Table Rock Lake with 31 people aboard watercraft. Nine of the 17 people killed were from Survivor Tia Coleman’s family. Coleman said she still cannot believe the events…
KANSAS CITY, MO (AP) — An Indiana woman whose husband and three children drowned when a duck boat sank in a Missouri lake has filed a federal lawsuit requesting an end to the manufacture and operation of the amphibious vehicles in the U.S. and elsewhere until they are redesigned for safety. Tia Coleman, of Indianapolis,…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A father and three children who were among nine members of a close-knit Indiana family killed in a tourist boat accident were remembered Friday during a nearly three-hour service attended by hundreds who showed up to support their surviving relatives. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, first lady Janet Holcomb and U.S. Rep. Andre…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana family that lost nine relatives when a tourist boat sank on a Missouri lake is preparing to say goodbye to four of those loved ones. Friday’s funeral services at Grace Apostolic Church in Indianapolis will honor the husband and three children of Tia Coleman. The services for 40-year-old Glenn Coleman,…
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — “Grab the baby!” Those were the last words Tia Coleman recalls her sister-in-law yelling before the tourist boat they were on sank into a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, including nine of Coleman’s family members. A huge wave hit, scattering passengers on the vessel known as a duck boat into Table…