LOCAL - Boy Admits to Stabbing Own Mother

A 16-year-old boy from Rochester Hills pleaded guilty Friday to murdering his mother by stabbing her 111 times last year after she discovered he was trying to learn how to make a bomb.

Under a deal with prosecutors, Christopher Dankovich agreed to serve up to 34 years in prison. Had he been convicted of first-degree murder, Dankovich would have faced a mandatory life term.

Dankovich was 15 when his mother, Diane Michele, 50, was found dead last spring in her home in Rochester Hills. The teen was arrested later that day at his family's cabin in St. Helen, more than 100 miles away.