From The Newsroom: The New Parkland, One Hour Shipping

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published March 26, 2015 at 6:45 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

The new Parkland Hospital in Dallas opens in August, and the $1.3 billion dollar complex promises high-tech care inspired in part by Disney.

And need diapers, light bulbs or a new iPhone case on the double? Amazon Prime now delivers to some North Texas zip codes in an hour or less.

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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