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From The Newsroom: Learning More About Dallas’ Second Ebola Patient, Political Ad Wars

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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

KERA confirmed that the first Ebola patient to contract the disease in the U.S. is Texas Health Presbyterian nurse Nina Pham. And Wendy Davis, the Democrat running for governor, is defending a TV ad that generated a firestorm of debate over the weekend.  It shows a wheelchair to represent her Republican opponent Greg Abbott. 

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.