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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Family members who lost loved ones when a duck boat sank in Missouri’s Table Rock Lake earlier this month have filed suit against the companies involved in the incident, claiming that the boat’s operators knew that their boat designs and weather conditions made the July 19 excursion unsafe. Seventeen people died when the boat sank as powerful winds swept through the area. Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said the victims ranged in age from 1 to 76 years old and included nine members of the Coleman family. Eleven of the Colemans were on the Ride the...

Full title......................Desperate last words heard by mother who lost NINE relatives - including her husband and three kids - aboard Missouri duck boat, as it's claimed the captain told passengers NOT to wear life jackets............The tragic final words of some of the victims of the Missouri duck boat disaster on Thursday were 'grab the babies', it has been revealed. Seconds before the Ride the Ducks boat capsized, the 31 passenger and crew on board scrambled to save the many children who were on board after a severe thunderstorm rolled over the lake and thrashed it with 60mph winds. Seventeen people...

Nine members of the same family are among the 17 people who died on Thursday night when a duck boat capsized in a Missouri lake. The family were from Indianapolis, but have not yet been named. Two other members of the family, who were also on the boat, survived. Bill Asher and his girlfriend Rose Hamman were also identified as among the dead by friends on Facebook on Friday afternoon. Bill and Rose had been on a week-long holiday in Branson, and had spent their last evening away on the duck boat, friend Mary Ogborn Kientzy said. Family confirmed the...

BRANSON, Mo. - First responders across southwest Missouri were called to the scene of a reported "mass casualty incident" at Table Rock Lake on Thursday after several people were thrown into the water.

Photos at link Chaotic scene as firefighters scramble to pull injured people from vehicles Two fatalities and nine critical injuries were reported Thursday after a Ride the Ducks duck boat collided with a charter bus on Aurora Bridge in central Seattle. The crash occurred shortly after 11:11 a.m., blocking all lanes of the state Route 99 bridge. Fire crews were on the scene and drivers were directed to use alternate routes. The Seattle Fire Department confirmed that two people had died and nine were critically injured. It wasn’t immediately clear how severe the injuries sustained were or how many people...

A duck boat packed with tourists crashed into a barge on the Delaware River this afternoon soon after it entered the water at Penns Landing, police said. The collision, at about 2:40 p.m., sent at least 27 people into the river off Columbus Boulevard near Chestnut Street. The Coast Guard said 37 people were aboard. Thirty-five were recovered. The Coast Guard was still searching for two passengers at 3:30 p.m. Witness Eric Scharpf, a tourist from Phoenix, Az., told CBS3 that the duck boat had apparently stalled when it was rammed by the barge. The barge "tore it apart," Scharpf...