Late-night candlelight vigil honors Poplar Bluff teens killed in train accident

Thursday, June 7, 2012

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- The mood was somber Tuesday night along the railroad tracks at the Wilcox Road crossing north of Poplar Bluff as about 125 people lit candles and remembered two teenagers killed earlier in the day when their sport utility vehicle was struck by a train.

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