CHARLESTON, W.Va., May 13 (UPI) -- Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was widely projected to be the winner of Tuesday's Democratic primary in West Virginia over rival Barack Obama.

CNN and MSNBC reported the New York senator was expected to beat out her colleague from Illinois by a 2-1 margin, according to exit polls.

With 2 percent of the vote counted, Clinton led Obama 63 percent to 30 percent, CNN reported.

Meanwhile, Obama has turned his attention to Missouri, a key general election swing state, rather than staying in West Virginia.

The results of the West Virginia primary, however, will have little impact on the race for Democratic delegates, in which Obama has piled up an all-but-insurmountable lead.

Instead, Obama is focusing his strategy on the general election and the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., by turning his attention to Missouri, which has already held its Democratic primary. He was set to have a town hall meeting in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Despite her likely resounding win in West Virginia, Clinton's challenge continues to fade. In addition to trailing Obama in pledged delegates, a CNN count showed Obama leading among superdelegates. Her campaign has also revealed it is $20 million in the red.

4 die in Canadian copter crash

CRANBROOK, British Columbia, May 13 (UPI) -- A helicopter smashed into a busy residential street in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and burst into flames Tuesday, killing four people, police said.

The Cranbrook Daily Townsman told the Canadian Broadcast Corp. the victims included three people in the copter and a pedestrian.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the aircraft belonged to a charter service, Bighorn Helicopter Inc., the CBC reported. The cause of the accident had not been determined but witnesses said the helicopter appeared to be flying low, possibly checking BC Hydro power lines.

A spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board told the network three investigators were en route to the scene from Vancouver.

Joe Pierre said the helicopter crashed near his vehicle.

"I came across the intersection and the next thing I know my car is being slammed and there's an explosion right beside me and it's that helicopter," Pierre said. "It exploded right beside me. … I'm pretty freaked out right now."

Bosnian war criminal transferred to Italy

UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (UPI) -- A former Bosnian military commander who was found guilty of committing crimes against Muslims was transferred Tuesday to a jail in Italy, officials said.

The U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said that Vinko Martinovi, also known as Stela, had served as commander of a sub-unit of the Convicts' Battalion, which was a military unit within the Croatian Defense Council.

Martinovi will serve out the remainder of his 18-year sentence in Italy.

He was personally involved in the forcible removal of Bosnian Muslims from the west bank of Mostar, leaving that side of the town "completely rid of Muslims," the United Nations said.

Martinovi was convicted in March 2003 for persecutions, inhumane acts, inhumane treatment, unlawful labor,

willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, murder, willful killing, unlawful transfer of a civilian and plunder.

Italy is one of 15 European countries that have signed an agreement with the United Nations to enforce sentences imposed by the tribunal on convicted individuals.

Baptist pastor, son dead in plane crash

ASHEVILLE, N.C., May 13 (UPI) -- Searchers found a small plane piloted by a Baptist minister Tuesday and the bodies of the pastor and his 13-year-old son in the mountains of North Carolina.

The Rev. Forrest Pollock, pastor of the Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Fla., was believed to have crashed Monday, the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times reported. He took off from Rutherfordton, N.C., at 5 a.m. Monday, planning to pick up a friend in Little Rock, Ark., and fly to a conference in Texas.

The Civil Air Patrol spotted the Piper PA-32-260 from the air at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday on top of a ridge accessible only on foot. A search party got there a few hours later.

The National Transportation Safety Board was to investigate the crash. Winds were high in the area Monday.

Pollock was well-known in the Tampa area as the pastor of a church with 3,000 members and was prominent in the Southern Baptist Convention. He was scheduled to be a speaker at the church's annual conference next month in Indianapolis.

A church spokesman said that he flew to North Carolina on Sunday to visit his mother on Mother's Day.