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From The Newsroom: Red River Rivalry, Mum Mania

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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

It’s Texas OU weekend in Dallas.  That means a flood of burnt orange and crimson rolling into town ahead of Saturday’s annual football match-up in the Cotton Bowl. We break down the 114 year-old tradition by the numbers. And make way full-body shields of plastic flowers sparkly ribbons and teddy bears. It’s homecoming mum season in Texas.

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.

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.