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From The Newsroom: Jim Wright’s Legacy, The Nature Of Terrorism

Max Faulkner/Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article20341920.html

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Jim Wright, who died in Fort Worth Wednesday at age 92, delivered soaring speeches in Congress for a third of a century. He made an impact in North Texas and on the national stage.

Also, an international terrorism expert explains the nature of terrorism in the U.S. while a representative of the North Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations explains Anti-Muslim sentiment is actually a symptom of a much larger problem.

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 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.