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Eighteen year old Alyssa Bustamante is escorted out of the Cole County Courthouse, in Jefferson City, Mo. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, to a waiting sheriff's vehicle. Bustamante, 18, who had described the slaying of a young neighbor girl as an “ahmazing” thrill made an emotional apology Wednesday to the girl’s family and was sentenced to a potential lifetime in prison. Bustamante originally had been charged with first-degree murder of Elizabeth Olten, but pleaded guilty last month to the lesser charges to avoid a trial and the possibility of spending her life in an adult prison with no chance of release. (AP Photo/The Jefferson City News-Tribune, Julie Smith)

Teen gets life with possible parole in 'thrill kill' of 9-year-old girl

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 3:09pm

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri teenager who had described the slaying of a young neighbor girl as an "ahmazing" thrill made an emotional apology Wednesday to the girl's family and was sentenced to a potential lifetime in prison.

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States urge court to uphold Ariz. immigration law

David A. Lieb, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 11:37am

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A coalition of 13 states has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold an Arizona law penalizing businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

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(The Associated Press) Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., talks with an exhibitor at a economic development meeting in the Fred E. Davis Multipurpose Building at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Mo on June 4. The 78-year-old Democrat from rural Missouri is facing what may be the most difficult election of his career. But he's trying to adapt. Skelton has embraced Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. He's amassing thousands of e-mail addresses and hired a cadre of consultants to manage his message.

Old-timers go modern in quest to stay in Congress

David A. Lieb The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 10:31pm

SEDALIA, Mo. -- It's 7:19 p.m., yet Rep. Ike Skelton appears hard at work. "I just voted against the repeal of DADT," Skelton tweets via BlackBerry to alert a few hundred followers to his stance against gays openly serving in the military.

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(ROD AYDELOTTE/The Associated Press) Waco tea party leader Toby Marie Walker speaks Aug. 14, 2009, during a tea party rally in Waco, Texas. The Waco, Texas, tea party started hiring off-duty police officers and renting their venues so that they could keep extremists out their main events.

Tea party leaders anxious about extremists

David A. Lieb The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 12:01pm

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Organizers of tax-day tea parties are preparing for their biggest day of the year Thursday, as thousands of demonstrators participate in local rallies against high taxes and big government spending. But the leaders are striving to keep the rallies from presenting another image: one of fringe groups, extremists or infiltrators obsessed with hateful messages.

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Mo. teen pleads not guilty to killing neighbor, 9

David A. Lieb The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 7:14pm

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A 15-year-old Missouri girl pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing a 9-year-old neighbor who authorities say was slain because the teen wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone.

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