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Missouri teen gets life in prison for killing 9-year-old  

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.

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Mo. teen gets life with possible parole in killing (AP)

This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 by the Cole County sheriff's office shows Alyssa Bustamante. Bustamante, 18, who confessed to murdering a young neighbor girl, was described as a thrill killer by prosecutors and a mentally disturbed child by her defense attorneys as a judge heard arguments Tuesday on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or something less. (AP Photo/Cole County Sheriff's Office)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.


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Man, wife, son guilty in Canadian ‘honor killing’ trial 

Three members of an immigrant Afghan family were found guilty of first-degree murder on Sunday in what is thought to be Canada’s first “honor killing” trial.

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Mortgage fraudster plotted killing witness

The convicted mastermind of a $100 million mortgage scam pleaded guilty Monday to plotting to kill the “rat” who testified against him. Aaron Hand, 40, admitted he asked his unwitting father for cash so he could hire a gunman to whack the government witness, his wife and his kids.

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Boy, 10, accused of killing friend, 12

A 10-year-old boy is suspected of fatally stabbing a 12-year-old friend in the chest with a kitchen knife, authorities say.

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Iran says CIA behind nuclear scientist’s killing (AP)

Beside a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, mourners carry a flag draped coffin of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, who was killed in a brazen daylight assassination when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car Wednesday, in his funeral ceremony, on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in Tehran, Iran. Thousands of mourners chanted 'Death to Israel' and 'Death to America' on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Iranian Students News Agency, Mehdi Ghasemi)AP – Iran said Saturday it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist this week in Tehran, state media reported.


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Van der Sloot pleads guilty to killing Peru woman (AP)

Joran van der Sloot looks back from his seat after entering the courtroom for the continuation of his murder trial at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Wednesday Jan. 11, 2012.  Van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day of the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect.  (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)AP – Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino who was killed five years to the day after the unsolved disappearance in Aruba of an American teen in which he remains the main suspect.


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