From The Newsroom: Snake Anti-Venom Stockpiles, Strong Dollars

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published April 14, 2015 at 6:40 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Why would the Dallas Zoo be on a hospital’s speed dial? Because it happens to have one of the country’s largest supplies of anti-venom.

And the dollar is creeping up on the euro, trading nearly one-to-one, which may entice some to travel.

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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