Killings of anti-Taliban leades put Pakistan’s Swat on the edgeMINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — The targeted killings of a handful of anti-Taliban leaders has shaken Pakistan’s Swat Valley and raised fears that the militants are re-emerging in the former tourist haven despite a largely successful army offensive against them.- – –Mexico City archdiocese bars priest with sexual assault convictionMEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexico City archdiocese said Thursday it is barring a priest who pleaded guilty in 1989 to sexually assaulting an 11-year-old Colorado girl from working in the city. The office of Cardinal Norberto Rivera said that Lucas Antonio Galvan has been stripped of his license to work as a priest in the city because he failed to provide documents about his past. Rivera’s spokesman, Hugo Valdemar, said the decision shows the church is taking sex abuse allegations seriously.- – –Pa. worker gets 7 years in disabled 14-year-old’s starvation death PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A child services contractor has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in a case linked to the starvation death of a disabled 14-year-old girl. A judge on Thursday gave 72-year-old Earle McNeill a far longer term than the four colleagues sentenced to date from MultiEthnic Behavioral Services. Four others were convicted at trial this year and are awaiting sentence.Prosecutors say the company forged documents after the 2006 death of Danieal Kelly to suggest home visits to her family and other needy clients that never occurred.- – –Man arrested in stabbing death of Miss. white supremacist lawyerPEARL, Miss. (AP) — A white supremacist lawyer with a knack for publicity was found stabbed to death in a burning house Thursday, and Mississippi authorities later arrested a suspect in the death.Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said Richard Barrett’s body was found about 7:45 a.m. after residents reported seeing smoke coming from his house in a rural area outside a suburb of Jackson, Miss. Pennington told The Associated Press a man was arrested in the death, declining to elaborate.- – – Bill to cap TOPS rejected again by Senate Education CommitteeBATON ROUGE (AP) — A state senator’s annual proposal to cap the amount of money college students could receive through the free tuition program called TOPS failed Thursday, rejected by the Senate Education Committee.The bill by Sen. Butch Gautreaux, D-Morgan City, has been killed in previous years as well. The TOPS program is politically popular, and opponents argue students have earned the free tuition and the state shouldn’t take away what students have been promised.The Senate committee shelved the measure without objection Thursday.Gautreaux said he believes TOPS — the Taylor Opportunity Program for Students — is an important program but sought a cap because of the annual growth of the program, which costs the state more than $130 million a year.- – – –Two New Orleans police officers charged in deaths of their dogsNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two New Orleans police officers have been charged in connection with the unrelated deaths of their K-9 dogs.The New Orleans district attorney’s office filed bills of information Thursday against Officer Jason Lewis and Sgt. Randy Lewis, The Times-Picayune reported.    – – –Forecasters: Severe weather possible in Arkansas, LouisianaForecasters are warning that portions of Arkansas and northern Louisiana may see significant severe weather Friday and that a tornado outbreak is possible in the region Friday night and Saturday morning.The national Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said Thursday there was a moderate risk of severe weather Friday, including storms that could produce tornadoes.- – – -Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]