The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom: The SMU basketball team and its coach Larry Brown were dealt suspensions by the NCAA. The Mustangs will be banned from the postseason and Brown will miss the first nine games of the season.
Finally, Sandbranch, an unincorporated corner of Dallas County is like a third-world country. Residents there have no internet, trash pickup and no running water.
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