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From The Newsroom: At-Home Drug Tests, Author Reacts To 'Suspension'

Doualy Xaykaothao
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KERA News

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

A non-profit group hopes arming parents with free drug kits might be help turn the tide of teen users. And author Garth Stein reacts to Highland Park ISD’s decision to “suspend” his book.

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.