Two people have been hospitalized after a helicopter crashed in a field in Walton County on Wednesday morning, officials have ...

A helicopter crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri Thursday — killing at least two people. The chopper went down and exploded into flames at about 11 a.m. near ...

WEST ALTON, Mo. — Federal officials on Friday released an initial report on their investigation into the deadly helicopter crash that happened on the Mississippi River near West Alton, Missouri, on ...

WEST ALTON, Mo. – The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on a deadly helicopter crash last week in West Alton, Missouri, confirming that the aircraft struck ...

Two people were killed Thursday after the helicopter they were in struck power lines crossing the Mississippi River and crashed onto a barge below, police said. The accident happened around 11 a.m. as ...

A tarp covers the wreckage of a helicopter after it clipped a power line spanning the Mississippi River and crashed onto a barge Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in near Alton, Illinois. A blue tarp covers the ...

EAST ALTON, Ill. (AP) — Two people died when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, on Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Cpl. Dallas ...