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From The Newsroom: Mammoth Moving Day, From Doctor To Patient

KERA | By Courtney Collins
Published September 17, 2014 at 6:43 PM CDT
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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

For thousands of years, a nearly complete mammoth skeleton has been buried in a gravel pit about fifty miles south of Dallas. Wednesday, paleontologists are taking the last and largest section of the skeleton to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. And Dr. Kent Brantly talks about the loneliness and humiliation that comes with Ebola.

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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