From The Newsroom: Dallas Could Be Ebola Free Friday, $2 Million Christmas Present At Arboretum

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published November 6, 2014 at 6:41 PM CST

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Friday is the last day of monitoring for any North Texan who might’ve been exposed to Ebola. If all goes well, Dallas will be Ebola-free. Commissioner of the state's health department DavidLakey talks about what Texas has learned.

And Christmas comes to the Dallas Arboretum this weekend, in the form of a $2 million display.

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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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