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From The Newsroom: Star Seekers, Cowtown As Boomtown

KERA | By Courtney Collins
Published September 4, 2014 at 6:46 PM CDT
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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Two Lake Highlands High School students decided against a part-time summer job and the mall. Instead, they opted for an astrophysics research program at SMU and discovered five new stars along the way. And a look at what’s behind Tarrant County’s economic boom. 

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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