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From The Newsroom: Fare Wars, PTS Without The D

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The top local stories this evening from the ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº Newsroom:

Virgin America announced Wednesday it’ll fly from Dallas to Austin for $39 dollars. That got the attention of Dallas-based Southwest, which built its business, in part, on that route.

And the Bush Institute held its second annual Military Service Initiative Summit in Dallas today. And former President George W Bush moderated a discussion with veterans on post-traumatic stress. He made a point of not using the word “disorder.â€

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº 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 ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº 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.