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Top Stories: A City Tries To Comes To Grips With Tragedy As It Grieves Fallen Officers

Christopher Connelly
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KERA News
A prayer vigil in Thanksgiving Square Friday afternoon

The top stories this afternoon from KERA news: The fear, shock and outrage over Thursday night’s deadly shootings is still vivid as Dallas tries to come to grips with what happened. President Obama will be in town for an interfaith memorial service and funeral services start Wednesday for fallen officers.

Four days ago, five police officers were killed and 11 people were injured. Today, a grieving city struggles to heal.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.