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Top Stories: Making Fort Worth ‘Age-Friendly’; Gun Violence And Mental Health

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The top local stories this morning from KERA News: Baby boomers make up one in 12 residents in Fort Worth. And as they head into retirement and live longer, they’re more independent than any previous generation. Fort Worth is working on a five-year plan to make the city more “age-friendly.”

Other stories this morning:

  • Monday marks the 50 years since what many consider to be the first mass shooting in America. 25-year-old Charles Whitman killed sixteen people and wounded thirty-two others at UT Austin. Questions still persist today on the connection between gun violence and mental health.

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

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.