From The Newsroom: Life Is A Cabaret In North Texas, Landmark Cancer Treatment In Dallas

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published February 16, 2015 at 7:06 PM CST

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Cabaret combines the bang of a theatrical performance with the intimacy of a jazz club, and it's happening all over North Texas.

Also, UT Southwestern Medical center has been charged with developing the country’s first National Center for Heavy Ion Radiation Therapy.

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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