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

Two people died Thursday after a helicopter crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois, shutting the ...

On Thursday morning just after 11 a.m., black smoke could be seen in Alton rising from the Mississippi River.  Alton Deputy Fire Chief Matthew Fischer described a "large plume of smoke" when he ...