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From The Newsroom: More Room To Operate; Becoming Friends After Vietnam

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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

When the $1.3 billion Parkland Hospital opens in August, all newborn babies and their mothers will be in a large building known as the WISH Tower. It will feature spacious operating suites and cutting-edge technology.

And Kay Merkel and Willie Minor were both in Vietnam during the war. They became friends decades later in North Texas.

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.