From The Newsroom: Health Insurance At Tax Time, Prime Prep Problems

KERA | By Courtney Collins,

Published January 27, 2015 at 6:38 PM CST

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

There’s a new box to check on income taxes for 2014. For most folks, showing proof of health insurance will be as easy as checking that box. Others will have extra forms to fill out.

And troubled charter school Prime Prep, started by former Dallas Cowboy Deion Sanders, has been under scrutiny for quite some time. Tuesday, Prime Prep was supposed to appear at a state hearing, but school officials didn’t show up.

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

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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Krystina Martinez

Former KERA staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and KERANews.org. She also produced The Friday Conversation, a weekly series of conversations with North Texas newsmakers. Krystina was also the backup newscaster for the Texas Standard.

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