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From The Newsroom: Ebola And Politics, The Sounds Of The Midway

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

The Ebola crisis has overshadowed every other news story in Texas, including next month’s election. And the State Fair midway, along with its colorful game operators, beckons.

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 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.