The Mississippi River has reopened to vessel traffic north of St. Louis after closing because a helicopter crashed into a ...

Two people died when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, north of St. Louis ...

Two people were killed after a helicopter crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis.

Federal investigators with the NTSB are expected to arrive Friday as the work is just beginning to piece together why a helicopter crashed late Thursday morning over the Mississippi River, leaving two ...

The helicopter, all of a sudden, touched the power line and in two seconds, it wasn’t a helicopter anymore, it was a thousand ...

Adam Briggs of Edwardsville had a day off work and was fishing along the riverbank on the Illinois side when the helicopter ...

The crash happened around 11 a.m. Thursday on the Missouri side of the river near Alton. The helicopter struck power lines, ...

Two people died when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, on Thursday, the ...

A helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a powerline then crashed into a barge and sparked a fire.

Emergency officials were responding to a helicopter crash in a section of the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois.

The crash, which happened north of St. Louis, closed a bridge into Illinois. A witness said it “just disintegrated” after ...