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Top Stories: Container Grown Produce, New Contract For Fort Worth Police Officers

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A "growtainer" uses blue and red spectrum LED light to make plants grow.

The top local stories this evening from KERA News: Central Market is starting to grow its own veggies – in shipping containers on store property. They’re known as “Growtainers,” and have customizable options for controlling light, moisture, temperature, and CO2 levels.

Other stories this evening:

  • The city of Fort Worth has spent more than a year hashing out a new contract with its police. Officers have been working under the old contract that was supposed to be replaced last September. KERA’s Christopher Connelly says the tentative agreement would increase pay and incentives for Fort Worth’s 1,600 officers
  • The Cultural Affairs Commission in Dallas held a public briefing yesterday on a big offer by a private entity. The Moody Foundation wants to give the city $22 million dollars in all.

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.