Ind. teen pleads guilty to brother's strangling

INDIANAPOLIS -- A court official says an Indiana teen who told police he strangled his 10-year-old brother to satisfy an urge he likened to hunger has pleaded guilty to murder.

Ohio Circuit Court administrator Connie Sandbrink says 18-year-old Andrew Conley entered the plea Monday as jury selection was to begin for his trial in the Ohio River town of Rising Sun.

Sandbrink says Conley doesn't have a plea agreement with prosecutors, who still plan to seek a sentence of life in prison without parole.

Conley was to be tried as an adult but couldn't face the death penalty because he was 17 when his brother was killed last November. Defense attorneys had been expected to argue Conley was insane at the time.

His sentencing hearing is scheduled to start Wednesday.