News for North Texas

From The Newsroom: A Teary Viewing Party, A Passionate Demonstration

KERA | By Courtney Collins
Published August 21, 2014 at 7:03 PM CDT
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Dr. Kent Brantly speaks on television.
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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Dr. Kent Brantly, the Fort Worth trained physician with Ebola, was discharged from the hospital, and seeing him on TV made many of his Texas friends cry. And North Texans react to the tension in Ferguson, Missouri.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

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Courtney Collins
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.
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