EAST ALTON, Ill. – Two people working on powerlines near the Mississippi River died Thursday when their helicopter hit the lines, crashed into a barge and sparked a fire that belched plumes of black ...
Video shows smoke rising from a barge on the Mississippi River after a helicopter crashed into it in Alton, Illinois on Thursday. Two people were killed in the accident, according to authorities.
Emergency crews responded late Thursday morning to a section of the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois, after reports of a helicopter crash by St. Louis' Fox 2 television. The Federal Aviation ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Efforts taken to keep a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River open to barge traffic should be sufficient to avert a shipping shutdown that the industry fears is ...
Shipping season on the upper Mississippi River has ended as the last barges headed south from St. Paul, Minnesota Nov. 25.