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From The Newsroom: Navajo Code Talkers, Rust Resistors

KERA | By Courtney Collins
Published March 20, 2015 at 6:43 PM CDT
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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

There aren’t many Navajo Code Talkers left in the world. Military officials say maybe 20 are still living. Two of these World War II heroes traveled to Fort Worth Friday for a rare town hall meeting.

And the world’s royalty of rust descended on Dallas this week for a conference called Corrosion 2015.  

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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