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Jose Berrios stellar as Twins blank Blue Jays for second straight game
TORONTO - The Blue Jays' bats went silent again Tuesday as Toronto's hitters try to work through a major slump at the plate. Running into some stellar opposing pitching isn't helping matters, eit...
May 09, 2019
Woodstock 50 concert organizers sue investor that backed out
NEW YORK - A dispute over whether the Woodstock 50 festival will go on has spiraled into a court fight, with organizers suing and at least temporarily silencing a former investor that sought to call o...
May 09, 2019
Otter's long departure means koi can return to Vancouver Chinese garden
VANCOUVER - Koi are safe to swim again in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver that was once a hunting ground for an elusive otter. Three adults and 344 juvenile ornamental k...
May 09, 2019
Chelsea Manning released from jail on contempt charge
FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been released from a northern Virginia jail after a two-month stay for refusing to testify to a grand jury. Manning was release...
May 09, 2019
Mulroney feted by business and political elite, refuses to speak about his past
MONTREAL - Some of Canada's business and political elite paid tribute to former prime minister Brian Mulroney Thursday night and raised money for the foundation of Universite de Montreal's hospital ce...
May 09, 2019
Occidental seals deal with Anadarko after Chevron drops out
DALLAS - Occidental Petroleum wrapped up a $38 billion deal to acquire Anadarko on Thursday after Chevron declined to sweeten its offer, ending a rare bidding war in the oil patch. The deal gives Occi...
May 09, 2019
Local business gets major diamond project contract
A Prince Albert company has been awarded the contract for one of the key elements of the proposed diamond mine at Forte la Corne, around 60 kilometres east of the city. The project - to assemble, comm...
May 09, 2019 Impact Mechanical Services Ltd's co-owners Roy Michel, (left) and Andrew Herbert, check the plans for the diamond processing plant they'll assemble for Rio Tinto's Project Falcon. (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
Oxygen greenlights Kim Kardashian prison reform documentary
NEW YORK - Oxygen Media has greenlighted a two-hour documentary that will capture Kim Kardashian West's efforts to free prisoners she believes were wrongly accused. It's a move by the network to expan...
May 09, 2019
Representatives from smaller communities meet in P.A.
Elected representatives and administrators from towns, villages and smaller communities were in Prince Albert Thursday to talk shop. The sector meeting, which is an annual event, was organized by the ...
May 09, 2019 SUMA President Gordon Barnhart speaking to those in attendance Thursday afternoon (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Orchestra finds child who charmed crowd with 'wow!'
BOSTON - A performing arts group has found the child who was literally wowed by a recent classical music concert. The Handel & Haydn Society finished a rendition of Mozart's "Masonic Funeral" at B...
May 09, 2019
