Tagged: alyssa bustamante

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Senator Claire McCaskill's mother passes away
• MU School of Professional Health Dean to step down at end of academic year
• Some students question university police marijuana arrest policy
• Ameren Missouri and Illinois send crew members to East Coast
• Wrongful death lawsuit filed involving Bustamante case

Authorities investigating the October 2009 disappearance of a Missouri girl had seized muddy clothes and shovels from the home of a neighboring teenager who later confessed to killing and burying the girl, according to secretly filed court documents obtained by The Associated Press.

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.

Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Alyssa Bustamante sentenced to life in prison
• A workplace discrimination reform bill passes the Missouri Senate
• Gov. Jay Nixon on his recent decrease in cuts to higher education