Tagged: alyssa bustamante

Regional news coverage from the KBIA Newsroom, including:

• Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon explains why he waited to add money to the state's higher education budget.
• Missouri state Sen. Mike Parson introduces legislation to move back candidate filing deadlines.
• Alyssa Bustamante is sentenced to life without parole for second-degree murder.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Attorneys for a Missouri teenager who admitted killing a young neighbor girl are contending that a troubled childhood and an antidepressant drug may have contributed to the murder.

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