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Wednesday, February 20, 2013  A former Jefferson City band teacher will spend 60 days in the Cole County Jail.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012  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.

Wednesday, February 08, 2012  Update: Alyssa Bustamante was sentenced to life in prison on murder charges Wednesday.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012  Update: A Cole County Judge accepted Alyssa Bustamante's withdrawal of a not guilty plea to first degree murder, and a guilty plea to 2nd degree murder and armed criminal action.

Thursday, December 22, 2011  The trial of a Mid-Missouri teen accused of killing a nine-year-old neighbor is scheduled to begin Jan. 30, 2012 in the new Christopher Bond Federal Courthouse.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011  A Jefferson City band teacher was indicted on Tuesday for a class D felony of sexual contact with a student by a Cole County Grand Jury.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011  Trial has already been pushed back twice