Anyone who commutes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area knows that traffic is heavy no matter which direction you’re heading. But when it comes to bad local commutes, the folks in Little Elm apparently have it worse that anyone else in the state for communities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000. More >

Giants defensive end Osi Umenyiora is optimistic but uncertain about his status for Sunday’s critical game against Dallas.

Umenyiora has missed the past four games with a high ankle sprain — the team won’t say which leg — but has practiced on a limited basis this week, including Wednesday. Coach Tom Coughlin likes what he saw from Umenyiora, saying, “He did good. He did a little bit more, felt better, felt good, moved around well.”

A woman shot and killed an home intruder in her exclusive Fort Worth neighborhood early Thursday morning, according to police.

Officers first received reports of a prowler in the 6700 block of Fortune Road near the Ridglea Country Club about 3:30 a.m.

According to Fort Worth Police Public Information Officer Sharron Neal, the woman, who was home alone, told police that someone rang her doorbell, then broke into her home.

Want to hop on a flight to Australia from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport? How about a quick trip to Dubai?

DFW Airport landed several new carriers in 2011, including Qantas Airways, Emirates Airline and the popular low-cost carrier JetBlue Airways. More >

Dallas-Fort Worth home prices are down 0.6 percent in October from a year ago, according to the latest Standard & Poors/Case Shiller home price index.

Nationwide, home prices were down 3.4 percent in the 20 largest metro areas compared to a year ago, with only Detroit and Washington D.C. seeing annual increases, 2.5 percent and 1.3 percent, respectively.

American Eagle has announced plans to stop flying turboprop planes from its main hub in North Texas and will switch to regional jets. The carrier, operating under bankruptcy protection, will replace turboprop planes at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport with Embraer 44-seat and 50-seat jets. More >

American Eagle President Dan Garton sent a letter to employees Tuesday outlining plans to halt use of the ATR-72 turboprop aircraft on routes to and from DFW airport. Here’s the text of the letter. More >

Police arrested a man who allegedly threatened a health care worker with a gun at a Fort Worth rehab facility on Monday morning. Witnesses say the suspect was a man in his 50s who had been to the clinic before for pain management.

According to a nurse who saw the incident, the suspect was scheduled for an evaluation and was in a patient waiting room with a medical assistant.

The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation has been awarded $2.1 million by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over two years to provide regional education, training and measurement of improvement of health care-acquired conditions and readmissions for up to 77 hospitals.

The overall goal is to make the hospital environment safer for patients, said Stephen Love, president and CEO of the Irving-based hospital council.

“It’s to help us continue to work on education and training related to specific disease categories,” Love said.