Black-clad Pakistani commandos overpowered a group of militants who had seized a police academy, took cadets hostage and killed at least six of them Monday in a dramatic challenge to the civilian government that faces U.S. pressure to defeat Islamic extremists.

A heavily-armed gunman accused of killing eight people at a North Carolina nursing home recently separated from his wife who worked at the facility, police said Monday.

A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing nine people and wounding eight, an official said.

Six people were shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a home in an upscale Silicon Valley neighborhood, police said Monday.

A woman sued a police dog that she blamed for injuries after it bit her in the buttocks. To a suburban Detroit judge, the bottom line was that the lawsuit was frivolous. So Warren District Judge David Viviano slapped 55-year-old Inez Starks with a $500 fine.

DALLAS (AP) -- An NFL pro football player detained by a police officer in a hospital parking lot while his mother-in-law was dying inside says he accepts the officer's apology.

Fans who survived a deadly stadium stampede in the Ivory Coast blamed police Monday for the tragedy, saying security forces provoked the panic by tear gassing people who had nowhere to run.

Pakistani commandos stormed a police academy in Lahore on Monday, overwhelming suspected Taliban fighters who killed eight cadets and wounded scores in a rampage through the complex.

Four children and two adults were shot dead and a woman was clinging to life in a hospital, after what police said was an apparent murder-suicide at a home in an upscale Silicon Valley neighborhood, police said Monday.

A man accused of killing eight people in a shooting spree at a North Carolina nursing home is the husband of a woman who worked there, police said Monday.