From The Newsroom: Star Seekers, Cowtown As Boomtown

四虎影院 | By Courtney Collins

Published September 4, 2014 at 6:46 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the 四虎影院 Newsroom:

Two Lake Highlands High School students decided against a part-time summer job and the mall. Instead, they opted for an astrophysics research program at SMU and discovered five new stars along the way. And a look at what鈥檚 behind Tarrant County鈥檚 economic boom.

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on 四虎影院 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 四虎影院 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鈥檚 weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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