A witness says a helicopter flying over the Mississippi River ran into a power line then crashed into a barge Thursday.

Two people are dead after a helicopter struck power lines and crashed onto a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, ...

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

The helicopter ran into a powerline and crashed Thursday morning on the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, ...

Video shows smoke rising from a barge on the Mississippi River after a helicopter crashed into it in Alton, Illinois on ...

According to initial accounts, the aircraft collided with a barge on the upper Mississippi River, sparking a fire on impact.

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

EAST ALTON, Ill. (AP) — Two people died when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, ...

One of the barges serving as a launch platform for the fireworks had caught fire. All five workers on board jumped into the ...

Arielle “Ari” Mazi Buchman, 10, the third girl who died after a barge ran over a sailboat in Biscayne Bay last week, died of ...

The chopper crew is believed to have been working on power lines when it crashed into one of them and then hit the barge ...