Gazing out from the shade of Scully Park to the west-northwest, your view lands on the headquarters of Main Street Lincoln.

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• Lincoln/Logan County Hometown Day featured Sunday at the state fair

• Sen. Brady: Is delay in budget tied to legislative pay raises?

• American Legion hosts banquet for baseball teams

Logan Lanes bowling

• Wednesday NASCAR-Ball

Major League Baseball

• NL roundup: Bonds hits 757; Dodgers blanked again

• AL roundup:  Mariners make move in AL wild card race

• Jones: Steroid question could dog A-Rod

• Team standings, schedules & scores

Golf

Olympics

Racing

Elsewhere

• Current obituaries

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Wednesday, Aug. 8:

• Hot weather calls for caution
  Cooling centers offer relief

• New cab rates and zones take effect

• Heat advisory in effect until 7 p.m. Thursday

• Gov. Blagojevich declares Rockford, Winnebago state disaster area following flooding

• Teacher-astronaut set to make history

• U.S. general deciding course of Iraq war

• Deaths put Chicago police under pressure

• Bridge disaster could mean gas-tax hike

• Major setback in Utah mine rescue effort

• Flight delays soar to 13-year high

• Man sold goods on eBay, never delivered

• Buy.com hopes garage sale lures eBayers

• Korea leaders to hold second-ever summit

• Clinton, Obama fend off rivals in debate

• Man smuggles monkey into NYC airport

• Woman has pencil removed from head

• Woman's ashes back after accidental sale

• Today in history

• The nation's weather

• Gov. Blagojevich signs legislation to increase protections for workers in construction industry
  The Employee Classification Act will increase protections for workers and law-abiding contractors by ending the practice of worker misclassification

• Airlines sue FBI, CIA over Sept. 11

• Wall Street points to higher open

• Soybeans and corn rise on Chicago Board of Trade

• Vredenberg subdivision seal coat set for Thursday

• Brain injury support group meets Aug. 28

• Book Look: 'The Manager's Book of Questions'

• Backpack fittings Thursday at ALMH to help prevent student injuries

• ALMH and CIEDC school supply distribution

• Going to the state fair? Want to save a bundle on college?
  Financial and academic preparation for college is focus of ISAC booth

• Chemists to excite children's interests at state fair

• State public health director warns people to avoid contact with bats
  Dozens of bat exposures already documented as we enter busy bat season

• Some children shut out from vaccines

• Court rules out terminally ill for tests

• Hospitals are shutting down burn centers

• NL roundup: Helton, Rockies inch closer in NL West

• AL roundup:  A-Rod plunked in Yankees' win over Jays

• Indians beat White Sox 2-1

• Bonds makes history with 756th home run

• Team standings, schedules & scores

• Robby Gordon avoids NASCAR suspension

Tuesday, Aug. 7

Monday, Aug. 6

Saturday, Aug. 4

Friday, Aug. 3

Thursday, Aug. 2