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From The Newsroom: Beating Cancer Twice; SXSW Movies To Watch

Stephanie Kuo
Cynthia Sekerke

The top local stories this morning from the KERA Newsroom: The Texas Senate could approve a campus carry bill as early as today. Also, we’ll hear the story of a North Texas woman who beat cancer twice; as a teen and as an adult.

Our Big Screen time previews some of the movies they saw at SXSW, which will also be showing at the Dallas International Film Festival.

Finally, SMU will face UCLA this afternoon in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

Listen to the top local stories in North Texas weekdays at 8:20 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM. 

Former KERA staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and KERANews.org. She also produced The Friday Conversation, a weekly series of conversations with North Texas newsmakers. Krystina was also the backup newscaster for the Texas Standard.