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Listen To Thursday Evening's News From KERA

Want to get clued into the region's most interesting stories in less than 10 minutes? KERA 90.1 FM has launched a twice-a-day local news segment from the KERA newsroom. The 10-minute segments air weekdays at 8:20 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. Click below to listen to Thursday evening's edition, which includes what to expect at the official Kennedy 50th anniversary commemoration. Also, a Dallas artist shares his memory of the moment Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Plus, legendary Texas newsman Dan Rather recalls Nov. 22, 1963.

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.