Authorities have identified an Arlington man killed in a collision in southeast Colorado as Mahesh G. Nagabhushanam.

Mr. Nagabhushanam, 25, was a passenger in the back seat of a car trying to pass a tractor-trailer Friday near Eads, Colo., when it collided with an oncoming minivan, the Colorado State Patrol said Tuesday.

The car's driver, 24-year-old Sharath K. Chandragiri of Arlington, also was killed, as were two people in the minivan, 75-year-old Jack Dewey and 65-year-old Shirley Dewey of Englewood, Colo.

Two other Arlington residents were seriously injured in the crash: Pourna C. Narayana-Reddy and Samarth Sampige, both 24.

Associated Press

The mayor and police chief have formed a task force to address convenience store crime in the city, officials said Tuesday.

Mayor Tom Leppert has asked the panel – dubbed the Mayor's Convenience Store Crime Task Force – to review and discuss ideas for improving the stores' safety.

Officers responded to more than 6,300 calls to convenience stores from 2004 to 2007, according to Dallas police statistics.

The task force includes City Council members, police officials, convenience store operators, and members of chambers of commerce and community groups.

Mr. Leppert has asked the panel to return recommendations and a plan of action by June 20.

Scott Goldstein

MESQUITE

Contractors repairing the Big Town Boulevard bridge over Interstate 30 will begin closing lanes at 8 p.m. today, Texas Department of Transportation officials announced.

Lane and road closures will be staggered as crews set the steel girders for the north side of the bridge.

Traffic will be diverted to Big Town Boulevard while the eastbound frontage road is closed until 5 a.m. Thursday.

Other road closures are planned through Monday until this stage of the $2 million bridge replacement project is complete.

The westbound frontage road will be shut from 8 p.m. Thursday to 5 a.m. Friday.

East and westbound lanes on Interstate 30 will be closed beginning at 10 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Monday. Traffic will be detoured to the frontage roads at exit 54, Big Town Boulevard.

Blanca Cantú

The City Council on Tuesday approved up to $1.1 million in subsidies for a new downtown apartment and retail complex.

The project, which will include as many as 230 apartments and 15,000 square feet of retail space, marks the latest attempt to breathe life into the city's aging downtown.

Plano will kick in money for public improvements, as well as for the construction of a new pedestrian walkway near the development and Plano's downtown DART station. City officials hope to defray much of the public cost with a grant from the North Central Texas Council of Governments.

Seattle-based Pinnacle is building the estimated $20 million development, to be located at the intersection of 15th Street and the DART line. It is slated to finish in 2010.

Theodore Kim

Four teens were arrested Tuesday morning at Prosper High School for allegedly burglarizing a house.

Dylan Davis, Ross Herblin, Adam Lancaster and Taylor Thompson are all 18 and will be prosecuted as adults for the first-degree felony, according to police.

The four are accused of causing $15,000 in damage to the interior of a house in the Greens Point/Collinsbrook Farm area of Prosper.

Wendy Hundley