The funeral for a towboat captain who drowned last week after his boat capsized will be held Tuesday in Belhaven. The body of J.W. Cleary was found Friday afternoon in the Pungo River. The 45-year ...

As the towboat churns up the Cumberland River ... it takes about a half-mile for towboats pushing barges to stop. The captain hits five short blasts on a horn to warn boaters and swimmers he ...

The investigation into the barge accident that collapsed a portion of the Interstate 40 bridge over the Arkansas River is now focusing on the captain of the towboat, Joe Dedmon. Fourteen people ...

As the grandson of a tug captain who lived his life on the water, Falgout was born into the industry. In the decades since his grandfather, then father, advanced to the front of the ship, however, ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A jury in Chattanooga has acquitted a towboat pilot of all charges stemming from a collision with a fishing boat that killed two men. Charles Warren Luetke faced charges ...

They came up with a plan and a team of river men came to the rescue. Today, Eddie Rhodes, captain of the towboat M.K. McNally was back at work on a 28-day river trip for Campbell Transportation.

Towboat captain Joe Gray has worked on the river for 29 years. Twenty-one year-old deckhand trainee Jacob Bumgarner holds a line while wearing a headlamp shortly before sunrise on Campbell ...

Prosecutors called to testify the relief captain of the Bearcat towboat that crashed into a local man's fishing boat in June 2010, killing two of the three men aboard. Will Stevens was not at the ...