Iowa City High students place second at mock trial nationals
It was 6:34 p.m. when Captain Smith Dawson's towboat, the M/V Susan K. Roberts, departed from a lock and dam 16 miles upriver from Evansville, Indiana. In a rush, Dawson ignored a "slow, no wake" order and the waning sun, maneuvering the barge through the busy and debris-clogged Ohio River — even after he heard a crash. He only learned later that the vessel had collided with a smaller boat, killing Jamie "Catfish" Hunter, a pitcher on the local River Rats baseball team who had been jug fishing with a friend. The state charged Dawson with two level five felonies for the ac...
Source: press-citizen.com