Deputy police Chief Steve Chaney has resigned one month after he was placed on administrative leave for undisclosed reasons. Last month, Mr. Chaney was named a finalist for the Fort Worth police chief's job but has since been edged out in that selection process by three other candidates.

Mr. Chaney had worked for Arlington for about 18 months. Before that, he worked as superintendent for the Maryland Natural Resources Police.

Debra Dennis

A homeowner fatally shot a man who broke into his house near the Lakewood Country Club on Thursday, Dallas police said.

The shooting took place about 2 a.m. in the 6100 block of Tremont Street, Dallas police Lt. Herbert Ashford said.

According to police, a person in the home heard a noise and woke up Benjamin Word, 54. Mr. Word went downstairs and discovered an intruder who was taking a television. He shot the intruder and then reported to police that an intruder was lying on the porch.

The Dallas County medical examiner's office said Gary Williams, 21, of Dallas died at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.

A man who answered the door at the home appeared distraught and said the incident was traumatic and tragic. He declined to comment further.

Dallas police Lt. Vernon Hale said it was likely the case would be referred to a grand jury.

Blanca Cantú

A former Holy Land Foundation representative in prison for supporting Islamic militants abroad took the stand Thursday in the Dallas trial of five former charity organizers.

Mohamed Shorbagi, 44, the former leader of a mosque in Rome, Ga., told jurors how he joined an Islamic student group at Blinn College after coming to Texas from the Gaza Strip in the 1980s.

He told jurors that in the early 1990s, he attended some of the radical pro-Hamas conferences in the Midwest where Holy Land was soliciting donations. He later became Holy Land's Georgia representative.

Mr. Shorbagi was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison last year after pleading guilty to supporting Hamas through the former Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation.

Jason Trahan

A 34-year-old Fort Worth woman died after she jumped from a moving vehicle during a police chase, authorities said.

Cleburne detectives went to an apartment in the 6900 block of North Beach Street in Fort Worth in search of Deborah Diane Britton and two men Wednesday.

When officers approached the three after they arrived in a Chevrolet Suburban, one man ran away. Ms. Britton and the other man jumped back into the vehicle, and Ms. Britton drove off, Cleburne police Sgt. Amy Knoll said.

Officers followed but lost sight of the vehicle. They soon found Ms. Britton lying in the road, with the other man driving off, Sgt. Knoll said. Ms. Britton may have been run over. She died at John Peter Smith Hospital.

Police were searching for the man who drove off; he had not been identified.

Fort Worth police said they were investigating Ms. Britton in connection with the theft of a computer and other items. She also had outstanding felony warrants, including one for fraud in Cleburne.

Dan X. McGraw

On hilly terrain that hugs Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Irving Mayor Herbert Gears and other officials broke ground Thursday morning on the city's Animal Care Campus.

The 24,000-square-foot facility on Valley View Lane will be the new home of City Animal Services and the DFW Humane Society. The campus will include kennels for 93 dogs and 94 cats on the city side and kennels for 46 dogs and 22 cats on the shelter side.

The site will be next to the city's first dog park. The park will have two enclosed play areas as well as shade structures, picnic tables and large millsap boulders for dogs to climb on.

The shelter and dog park are scheduled to open late next year.

Deborah Fleck

The Irving City Council approved new guidelines for carports Thursday, including a requirement to demolish all such structures that have been built illegally. But the council stopped short of a request by the city staff to disallow converting garages into living space unless a replacement garage is built.

The new regulations also require that any new carports visible from a street be approved through the city's zoning process. They also require that new homes be built with a two-car garage.

Planning and zoning commissioners are expected to initiate public hearings on whether to repeal an ordinance that eases rules for carport construction on certain residential blocks in the city. They also will develop a policy that establishes situations in which new carports should be prohibited.

None of the new regulations will affect carports that were built legally and previously received approval from the city.

Brandon Formby

Local and state officials broke ground Thursday afternoon on the $518 million Irving Diamond Interchange State Highway 114 and Loop 12 improvement project.

Just north of Texas Stadium, the multimodal project will streamline the area's four highways – state highways 114 and 183, Loop 12 and Spur 482 – with the DART Orange Line, which is scheduled to reach Las Colinas in 2012.

Deborah Fleck

An Irving group seeking to create a mixed system of single-member and at-large City Council seats will begin collecting signatures today to force the issue on the ballot in May.

The Irving Single-Member District Committee wants to change the city charter to create five single-member and three at-large districts and one at-large mayoral seat. All nine council members, including the mayor, are currently elected at large. Some council posts, however, require seat holders to live in certain areas of the city.

A voting-rights lawsuit filed against the city last year claims the at-large system effectively denies representation to the city's Hispanics. Members of the Irving Single-Member District Committee fear that the lawsuit, which is pending, may result in eight single-member seats, with the mayoral post remaining at large.

Committee members will collect petition signatures from 1 to 3:30 p.m. today at the Islamic Center of Irving, 2555 N. Esters Road.

They will also seek signatures outside polling sites during early voting for the Nov. 4 election, which begins Monday.

Brandon Formby

At least four boys suffered injuries when they were sprayed with antifreeze from a hose that broke loose during a bus ride to Sanger Middle School from a football game.

The boys – all Sanger Middle School students – were taken by CareFlite to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, said Tom Reedy, the Denton County Sheriff's Office spokesman.

One 14-year-old boy suffered burns on his legs. The other three, whose ages were not available, had eye injuries. Two other students were also sprayed with antifreeze; however, it was unclear whether they were injured.

The bus was carrying football players who were returning to campus shortly after 9:30 p.m. when a hose underneath a seat at the back of the bus somehow broke loose, said Jack Biggerstaff, Sanger ISD superintendent. The fluids from the hose sprayed the students.

The bus was close enough to the school that the football players immediately showered when they arrived so they could wash off the antifreeze, Mr. Biggerstaff said.

Marissa Alanis