Federal magistrate recommends dropping criminal charges in Branson duck boat disaster

Accident
A federal magistrate last week recommended that federal criminal charges be dropped against three men indicted in the 2018 sinking of a duck boat in Branson, Missouri, that killed 17 people, KCUR reports. Curtis Lanham, general manager of Ride the Ducks Branson, and Charles Baltzell, the manager on duty the day of the accident, were …