POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) — Poplar Bluff police are investigating after a man was rescued from a stopped train car onto which he fell or jumped from a highway overpass. Twenty-seven-year-old Elbert Cook suffered facial injuries and a broken wrist in Saturday's incident...
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) — A Poplar Bluff city employee faces felony charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action related to the weekend shooting of a 34-year-old woman. Missouri Highway Patrol says 37-year-old Jeremy W. Grable and the woman, who was shot in the upper torso, were involved in a child custody dispute...
UPDATE: The suspect and missing child have been located in Butler County and the victim is safe. Jeffrey Shelton, a registered sex offender, was taken into custody and remains in the Poplar Bluff jail.