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Linwood city officials recently met with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to discuss whether the city could find the money to contribute to a project that would fix erosion problems along Stranger Creek. The creek meanders through Linwood on its way to the Kansas River — and several buildings, including this home owned by Danny Saultz, 19302 Golden Rd., sit precariously close to the creek.

Law enforcement personnel conducted a raid on a cockfighting operation east of Vinland Tuesday. Two men were arrested in connection with the two-year investigation.

Andrew Ellis 16, of Lawrence, was the first person to receive his H1N1 vaccine from Maria Ana Garza, who works for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, at the first swine flu vaccine clinic this year in Douglas County. About 4,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine were on hand Oct. 21 at Coffin Sports Complex at Haskell University. The health department will be having an H1N1 clinic at Baldwin High School from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m Saturday. Only those in the priority categories will get the vaccine.

Brian Yutzy, of Hutchinson, who owns Southwest Seed Research, watches a load of corn empty into a truck Tuesday near the Lawrence Municipal Airport.

Cars travel on U.S. 59 just south of Lawrence in this file photo. Backers of the South Lawrence Trafficway project hoped that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would help complete the roadwork.