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Top Stories: City Of Dallas Announces Huge Donation To Help Fund Trinity River Park

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Rendering of the projected 155-acre Harold Simmons Park in Dallas.

The top local stories this afternoon from KERA News: Dallas has long talked about creating a park along the Trinity River. On Monday, the city took a big step closer to making that happen thanks to a $50 million donation from Annette Simmons, the widow of the late billionaire Harold Simmons.  

Other stories this afternoon:

  • There are plenty of ways to celebrate Halloween. You could dress up in your spookiest outfit or you might watch scary movies and hand out candy. Folks in Denton gear up for the holiday with a different sort of tradition, one that sends them sprinting downhill in vehicles of death. Art&Seek’s Hady Mawajdeh fills us in.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.