OGLE COUNTY, Ill. — Officials have identified the pilot and sole occupant of a plane that crashed Tuesday morning in northern Illinois. The sheriff's office said 23-year-old Alexander Leamon of Lena ...

Aerial application of pesticides, or crop dusting, is a crucial part of modern agriculture, increasing crop yields and reducing losses by billions of dollars annually. The job of an ag pilot is ...

Jul. 23—Alexander Leamon, 23, of Lena, has been identified as the pilot killed in Tuesday's crash near the Ogle County Airport. Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle released Leamon's name Wednesday ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. ― Robert Ray Cottingham took off in his crop duster from an Attica airport about 5:40 p.m. July 22. He had about 50 minutes left to live, according to a preliminary report from the ...

OXFORD, Ind. ― A 35-year-old man crop dusting in southeastern Benton County died Monday evening after his plane crashed, Benton County Coroner Matt Rosenberger said. The yellow single-engine plane ...

CENTRALIA — A crop duster plane snagged a power line and crashed in Boone County Tuesday afternoon, knocking out power for more than 1,000 customers. The pilot of the plane, a man from Huntsville, was ...

CENTRALIA — The road around the site of a crop duster plane crash in Boone County reopened Wednesday, and access was opened to the scene. The Air Tractor AT-402A crop dusting plane crashed around 1:15 ...