Barge Captain Gets 6 Mos. For Fatal Accident, Oil Spill

By Lance Duroni (June 26, 2015, 6:44 PM EDT) -- An oil barge captain was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday for his role in a 2005 accident that killed a crew member and dumped thousands of gallons of oil into a Chicago canal, and his company was ordered to reimburse the government for $5.3 million in cleanup costs....

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