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Southern Ill. Teen on Trial in Neighbors' Deaths
VANDALIA, Ill. (AP) -- Jury selection is under way in the southern Illinois murder trial of a teenager accused of gunning down two of his neighbors as they slept.

Sixteen-year-old Clifford Baker is charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the Fayette County killings a year ago of Debra Tish and John Mahon. The two were shot at their home in Loogootee (luh-GOH'-tee), a community about 80 miles east of St. Louis.

Baker was 15 at the time of the killings. He's pleaded not guilty and remains jailed.

The judge is allowing Baker's attorneys to pursue an insanity defense.

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