Stories from Monday, August 1, 2011

By BOB MILLER SEMO News Service After many self-inflicted wounds, Rod Jetton's life is healing, he says. Approaching two years after accusations surfaced of an assault on a Sikeston, Mo., woman during a sexual encounter with her, the former Missouri House speaker wrote a blog about his personal and political free fall at therecoveringpolitician.com. It appeared July 22 and was the first time Jetton had addressed the issue publicly...

Drowning was not what caused the death of a Poplar Bluff, Mo., man whose body was recovered from Black River last week after he went missing while swimming in the river. David Keith Owen was found to have suffered from a cardiac arrhythmia, an irregular heart rhythm, during an autopsy Friday afternoon in Poplar Bluff by members of the Parcells Forensic Pathology Group out of Kansas City, Mo., according to Butler County Coroner Jim Akers...