From The Newsroom: ‘Car Talk’ Co-Host Dies, Candidates Make Final Push

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published November 3, 2014 at 6:47 PM CST

Tom (pictured right) and Ray Magliozzi performing at McFarlin Auditorium in November of 1995.

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Tom Magliozzi died today of complications from Alzheimer's disease at age 77. Tom and his brother Ray, became famous as "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers" on the weekly NPR show Car Talk. And the leading candidates for governor make final stops in North Texas before Election Day.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins

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.

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