From The Newsroom: Rangers Open Season In Arlington, A Giraffe Is Born In Dallas

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published April 10, 2015 at 6:50 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom: It's the home-opener for the Texas Rangers in Arlington, and a giraffe calf is born at the Dallas Zoo.

Thousands skipped work and spent the day at Globe Life Park in Arlington for the Texas Rangers’ home opener against the Houston Astros. And after an hour of hard labor, a giraffe calf has arrived.

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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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