US man guilty of newsreader death

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A US man has been found guilty of the murder of a television newsreader he attacked at her home in Little Rock, Arkansas in 2008.

Curtis Lavelle Vance, 29, could now face the death penalty for killing 26-year-old Anne Pressly.

Doctors said Ms Pressly, a presenter on the KATV station, was brutally beaten around the head and face, suffering massive swelling of the brain.

Vance was also found guilty on charges of rape and burglary.

Ms Pressly was found by her mother who had gone round to her house on 20 October after she failed to answer her regular morning wake-up call.

She died five days later having never regained consciousness.

Shortly before the attack, the presenter had had a small role in W, the Oliver Stone film about President George W Bush, as a conservative commentator.