POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Authorities say a pedestrian has been killed while crossing a highway in Southeast Missouri.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said a car struck 26-year-old Charles R. Colbert III of Wappapello, Missouri, on Sunday night on Route T in Butler County. The Butler County Coroner pronounced him dead at the scene.
The car's driver wasn't hurt.
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