This week the Lincoln City Council held a special voting session on Tuesday evening.  During that session the council approved $1.77 million for the reconstruction of five blocks of Pulaski Street. The project will start this fall, but it is expected that only one block will be completely finished by winter. Work will then resume next spring. Read more about this in the story below.

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Today marks the start of the Delavan Fall Festival. Delavan is just a few miles from Lincoln and promises to offer its visitors a good time this weekend, so if you're in the mood for a road trip, why not hop on over and see what's happening in one of our neighboring communities? See more about the festival.

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This undated image shows Brent, a chimpanzee at Chimp Haven in Keithville, La. The 37-year-old chimpanzee, who paints with his tongue, has won $10,000 for a sanctuary in northwest Louisiana. He was the top vote-getter in an online chimp art contest organized by the Humane Society of the United States. Brent was unavailable for comment. Cathy Willis Spraetz, president of Chimp Haven, says the money will go toward construction to prepare the sanctuary in Keithville for chimpanzees being retired from a lab in New Iberia.

AP photo provided by Chimp Haven Inc.

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Rafael Nadal, of Spain, serves against Rogerio Dutra Silva, of Brazil, during the second round of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament on Thursday in New York.

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