Authorities have suspended the search for a 29-year-old kayaker who fell into the Mississippi River after hitting towlines between two barges. Dalton Bast was last seen around 4 a.m. Thursday on the river at St. Louis. Barge workers saw him fall and threw a line, but their effort was unsuccessful...
Authorities say a man who jumped into the Mississippi River and drowned had boasted to friends that he had jumped into the river many times and wanted to do it again.