Friday afternoon, street crews for the city of Lincoln were busy putting up the special flags for the Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival, coming up Aug. 23-25.  LDN has the program and other important information in a special section below. Scroll down this page and click on the links for everything you need to plan where you will go and what you will do during the 40th annual festival.

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Pictured above are Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital employees (from left) Wayne Ackerman, Vicki Brickey, Kenny Gill, John Eigenbrod, Cathy Albert and Moses Hernandez as they fill the bed of a pickup truck with goods to be delivered to the Lincoln/Logan Food Pantry. Read more about this in the story below.

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In this July 31 file photo, Dr. Sanjay Gupta attends a special screening of "Lee Daniels' The Butler" in New York. Gupta says that in the past he spoke too soon in opposing the medical use of marijuana, and that he now believes the drug can have very real benefits for people with specific health problems. Gupta, the network's chief medical correspondent and a brain surgeon, detailed his change of heart in an interview Friday and a CNN website article titled "Why I changed my mind on weed." He narrates a related documentary the network is airing on Sunday.

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Guzzardo's Italian Villa

Peggy's Place

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St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Lance Lynn tags out Chicago Cubs' Starlin Castro, front, on a bunt attempt in the seventh inning during a game on Friday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Castro was initially ruled safe by first-base umpire Larry Vanover, but the call was overturned upon consultation with the other umpires.

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