Kansas City National Public Radio station KCUR reported Friday that U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush has recommended that federal criminal charges be dismissed against three men indicted in relation to the 2018 sinking of a duck boat in Branson, Missouri, that killed 17 people.
The boat’s captain Kenneth Scott McKee was indicted in November 2018 on charges of misconduct, negligence, or inattention to duty by a ship’s officer, resulting in the death of another person. McKee was charged with...