From The Newsroom: Help For Homeless Vets, New Horizons For Urban Farmers

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published March 24, 2015 at 6:39 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

In Fort Worth, the latest count shows the number of homeless military veterans has declined by a third. The Presbyterian Night Shelter held its annual fundraising breakfast Tuesday.

And a new crop of urban farmers in Dallas could find space to set down roots after Wednesday’s City Council meeting.

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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