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Top Stories: Irving Resident Has West Nile Virus, What's Next For Vickery Meadow?

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The top local stories this afternoon from KERA News: This season’s first human case of West Nile Virus has been confirmed by Dallas County. The resident is from Irving, and lives in the 75060 zip code. This person has the severe, neuroinvasive form of the disease.

And KERA’s Stephanie Kuo takes an in-depth look at gentrification in a vulnerable community; Vickery Meadow. There are competing priorities, and many wonder whether development can exist side-by-side with some of Dallas’ neediest people.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.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.