'America's Got Talent' winner and his mother injured in car crash

SCOTT CITY, Mo. -- "America's Got Talent" winner Neal E. Boyd of Sikeston and his mother were injured in a car crash early Saturday in Scott County.

According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred at 8:45 a.m. on northbound Interstate 55 at the 89-mile marker when the vehicle Boyd, 41, was driving ran off the road, struck a tree, went airborne and struck another tree.

Boyd and his passenger-mother, Esther R. Boyd, 62, of Sikeston received serious injuries and were taken by ambulance to a Cape Girardeau hospital, the Patrol said.