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From The Newsroom: State Fair Fare, Music At The Park

State Fair of Texas

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Fried shrimp and funnel cake beer is a winning combination in the eyes of a panel of judges at the State Fair of Texas. And classical music loving North Texans should mark their calendars for the first ever Dallas Symphony Orchestra simulcast on Sept. 13.

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.