The spokesman for Pakistan’s president says the government’s peace deal with Taliban in the Swat valley is “intact” despite a new military operation.

Authorities say a North Dakota man who clashed with a city official over an unpaid water bill got into an 8 1/2-hour standoff with deputies that ended with a SWAT team member shooting him in the shoulder.

A man convicted of attempted murder and assault for firing at a SWAT team and wounding an officer in Washington state has been sentenced to 120 years in prison.

A hardline cleric dispatched by Pakistan to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban said the right of girls to attend school in the Swat valley was still under discussion but did not say whether the militants were planning to disarm.

Pakistan’s startling accord with Taliban fighters that would impose Islamic religious law on the strategic Swat valley looms as a setback for the Obama administration’s hopes to mount a united front against militants there and in Afghanistan.

NATO warned Tuesday that Pakistan risked creating a safe haven for Islamist extremists after it struck a deal to impose Islamic law and suspend a military offensive in the former tourist haven of Swat.

A police officer cleared of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black woman during a drug raid won’t be allowed to patrol the streets when he returns to work next week.

Authorities say a SWAT team has killed a man who allegedly wounded the mother of his 2-year-old daughter and then held the little girl hostage for more than two hours at his home in Lynwood, Calif.

A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black.

An Ohio jury has acquitted a white police officer in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman who was holding a child.