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Top Stories: Honoring DART Officer Brent Thompson; Previewing Asian Film Festival

The top local stories this morning from KERA News: In our series Remembering the Fallen, KERA profiles each of the slain officers. BJ Austin looks at the life of 43 year old Brent Thompson, the first DART Police officer to die in the line of duty.  

The 15th Asian Film Festival of Dallas begins its eight-day run tonight at the Angelika Film Center. This week, our Big Screen team gets a preview from the festival’s senior programmer and talks about the two countries at the center of Asian filmmaking.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.