EDWARDSVILLE — A Madison County jury has awarded a $3.3 million verdict for a towboat deckhand. On Jan. 13, a jury deliberated two hours and 15 minutes before declining SCF Lewis and Clark LLC’s ...

The body of a tugboat deckhand from Dulac who went missing last week in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana-Texas border has been found, family members said Friday. Becky Parfait, mother of ...

A deckhand at the helm of a towing vessel had fallen asleep before the tow struck a dock near Clatskanie, Ore. last year, according to a report published by the National Transportation Safety Board ...

Family members plan to lead a candlelight ceremony Monday for a Dulac tugboat deckhand who went missing in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana-Texas border. Thomas Phillips, 35, was last seen about ...

A deckhand from the towboat involved in a summer oil spill offered a different version of events from the one recounted by the seaman piloting the Mel Oliver during a Coast Guard probe of the accident ...

RED WING, Minn. - A deckhand on a barge sustained serious injuries Sunday after being pinned between the barge and the lock wall at a lock and dam on the Mississippi River. Clayton Little, 30, Reagan, ...

When Samuel Clemens piloted a steamboat on the Mississippi River, he relied on a keen eye, an ingrained knowledge of river currents and a deckhand with a rope, knotted at 6-foot intervals, to gauge ...

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. -- The search for a missing towboat captain stopped Wednesday afternoon with little hope of finding him after his boat sank in the Mississippi River. Without finding any sign of 36 ...