From The Newsroom: One Charge Against Perry Dropped, Town Divided On Muslim Cemetery

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published July 24, 2015 at 6:36 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

A state appeals court Friday threw out one of two felony charges against former Texas Governor and current presidential candidate Rick Perry.

And the Collin County Islamic Association wants to build a 34-acre cemetery in Farmersville, an hour north of Dallas. That’s sparked pretty heated rhetoric from some locals who are trying to keep the Muslim cemetery out of the area.

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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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