He was sentenced to 16 years in prison by an Italian court. ROME -- Italian Captain Francesco Schettino was found guilty today for causing the fatal shipwreck of the Costa Concordia and sentenced ...

The captain of the Costa Concordia is guilty of manslaughter and other charges related to the ship’s fatal wreck in January 2012 off the Italian coast, a judge announced Wednesday night ...

Reporting from ROME — Francesco Schettino, the former cruise ship captain sentenced to 16 years for steering the Costa Concordia into rocks, was finally jailed Friday after his lengthy appeals ...

Captain Francesco Schettino, who helmed the doomed Costa Concordia before it crashed into a reef off the coast of Giglio, Italy, damaged a ship by going too fast into a German port, according to a ...

Prosecutors slammed Schettino as an “able idiot” who overestimated his abilities and then abandoned ship, leaving the 4,200 passengers to save themselves. Costa Concordia’s captain Francesco ...

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the doomed cruise liner Costa Concordia, knew as soon as his ship struck a rock off the island of Giglio on January 13 that he had ...

The captain of the Costa Concordia says the helmsman of the ill ... who is charged with manslaughter in the deaths of 32 people aboard the ship, which ran aground on Jan. 13, 2012, is also accused ...

The captain of the Costa Concordia did not accidentally fall into a lifeboat as he claimed but jumped into it long before the last passengers were rescued from the doomed cruise ship, one of his ...

The captain of the Costa Concordia went back on board Thursday ... who faces multiple charges including manslaughter and abandoning ship, went aboard the vessel with an expert team appointed ...

That’s basically how Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia, is explaining his decision to abandon his ship as it sunk off the coast of Tuscany last Friday with passengers still ...

The search for 21 people still missing in the Costa Concordia shipwreck ... direct the evacuation, and the captain resisting, saying it was too dark and the ship was tipping.

ROME – A Costa Concordia official has testified that the cruise ship's captain was distracted and talking on the telephone when the liner approached a Tuscan island shortly before it crashed.